Excess triumphalism of Sánchez with gas

The government exaggerates so much the triumphalism for the energy agreement in the European Council that it is, first of all, counterproductive, in that it

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Neither measure nor recognition of the truth adorn Pedro Sánchez.

The truth is that they have knocked down their maximalist ideas and they have not been able to agree with the Twenty-seven on the reform of the community wholesale market that

months claiming.

The propaganda tour that he has starred in in recent days through various capitals of the continent has been of little use as pure escapism while Spain burned with protests of all kinds.

And from there

Although Spain and Portugal have obtained special treatment to intervene temporarily in gas prices -which could lower the electricity bill in a month-,

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And it is that the Government is obliged to ensure that its measures are not a trompe l'oeil that involves gas subsidies or distorts the electricity market.

In fact, although Sánchez always sells the skin of the bear before hunting it, the reality is that Moncloa has yet to define in detail the mechanism of his intervention, which

, which will delay its entry into force more than planned by the Government.

They are measures of enormous technical complexity in which there are no errors, and in everyone's mind is the regulatory misstep in September with the

to the benefit of the electricity companies that had to be suspended just a month later.

We'll see too

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But, beyond that, what is not admissible is that Sánchez has hidden for weeks behind Brussels

, as the governments of some of our neighbors have been doing.

Lastly, there is little room for celebration in the fact that the vaunted "Iberian exception" in the EU actually means that we are increasingly

, as drowned as we are.

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