Legal insecurity of a plan without consensus

The Government has once again missed a great opportunity for a crucial issue such as

, in the midst of blackmailing Putin's EU, to be addressed as a matter of state and agreed upon by the agents concerned.

The situation requires a lot of pedagogy from the public powers.

Hence, Moncloa's refusal to qualify the most controversial issues of the decree that will come into force this Wednesday is misunderstood, as many councilors in the council claimed this Monday.

Energy sector conference convened with evident reluctance by the minister

, who is characterized by both his inflexibility and a management in which his ideological clichés prevail above all else.

The meeting confirmed that the Executive had no intention of modifying anything.

We are facing the imposition of measures that are guilty of

.

The decree is very improvable in substantive matters that generate serious doubts both about its application and about the sanctions that non-compliance would entail.

And this was not made ugly this Monday for Ribera only by the representatives of autonomies governed by the PP.

The councilors of the Basque Country or Catalonia expressed themselves in the same sense, emphasizing that the

of the legal text generate

.

He should have learned some lessons from the Government after the Constitutional Court declared illegal the states of alarm that it decreed to manage the coronavirus pandemic.

The Community of Madrid anticipated this Monday that it will also present an appeal to the TC of this decree-law that is already causing so much uncertainty.

It is undeniable that some measures must be taken to deal with the

.

But it seems essential to urgently convene a Conference of Presidents that could adopt the most suitable and efficient strategy.

The closure of Moncloa is even more surprising due to the context.

And it is that just three weeks ago, Ribera herself attacked the European Commission's energy plan, stressing that Spanish families were not going to suffer gas cuts under any circumstances because our country had "done its homework".

Days later, the Government relented after obtaining from the Twenty-seven that our energy reduction be limited to 7%, half of that recommended by Brussels.

But, from there, the Council of Ministers has quickly improvised a harsh battery of measures when countries much more affected by the Russian supply cut, such as Germany or France, are still studying their plans.

It is therefore incomprehensible that the Government has refused to listen to the affected sectors and the autonomous communities beforehand, given that they are the ones that have to apply many of the measures and on which the sanctioning regime depends.

Nor has the economic impact been evaluated and how it will affect the heavy weight of the restrictions on commerce and hospitality, which add up to almost 20% of the national GDP and have an even greater weight in the labor market.

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