Incapable of solving the energy crisis that forces families and companies
to pay the most expensive electricity bill in our recent history
, the Government has been trapped in its demagoguery due to the impossibility of applying easy remedies to difficult problems.
In other words, the magic solutions of populism do not work
.
By now, Pedro Sánchez is already aware that
he will not be able to fulfill his illusory promise
that the Spanish will pay for electricity at the end of the year the same as
in 2018, something that even their own voters have never believed, as reflected in a recent poll published by this newspaper.
That Pedro Sánchez who in 2015 reproached
Mariano Rajoy
the rise in electricity prices -
"You are very expensive for the Spanish," he even told him.
- has seen all its attempts to mitigate the unstoppable rise in the price of the megawatt per hour, which has been above 220 euros for days.
Moreover, since the urgent measures decree promoted by
Teresa Ribera
, consumers are puzzled by the change in the cheapest time slots for consumption.
If months ago the Ministry of Ecological Transition recommended to put the washing machine at dawn, now it turns out that the best time to do it is the first hours of the afternoon, between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
The bewilderment is such that
It is impossible for families to establish a pattern to plan and mitigate the price records that occur month after month.
But that package of measures also included
solutions the Chavista way
, which have been rated as
confiscatory
by some associations of minority shareholders of electricity companies.
And it is that the intervention of the Government in the electricity market, in addition to introducing a distorting element that threatens the legal security of the markets,
had a direct impact on the sector's turnover of a minimum of 2,600 million euros
.
The
PNV pressures
, one of the parliamentary partners of the Government, forced Ribera to mitigate his blow to the electricity companies, contrary to the ministers of United We Can.
Yesterday your spokesperson in Congress,
Pablo Echenique
, forwarded a proposal to the minister in which he proposed that the electricity companies return 99% of some
extraordinary benefits that he described as "fallen from the sky."
The latest desperate occurrence has targeted the EU, whose pricing method is blamed by Pedro Sánchez and Teresa Ribera for the increase in the bill paid by Spaniards.
Most of our community partners do not see the need to reform the gas and electricity system, as it could compromise the green transition.
Faced with this refusal, Sánchez has come to threaten to break the single market
and act on their own, requesting approval to set the price of electricity on their own and thus be able to fulfill their demagogic promise.
A chieftain with little chance of success, as Commissioner Gentiloni reminded her yesterday.
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