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Parliamentary groups have mercilessly attacked the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, in Congress for what they consider inaction when adopting measures in defense of consumers, mainly the most vulnerable, in the face of increases in the price of electricity in the first weeks of January.

Unión del Pueblo Navarro, Ciudadanos, PP, Vox, and even also the PNV and with greater gentleness Bildu, have asked the minister "facts and not words" to face the situation and have come to qualify their presence in the Government and the Ministry that heads "useless", "incapable", "superfluous" and "decorative".

In the course of the debate, which Garzón intended "pedagogical", it has been recurrent by several political formations to bring up the tweets and phrases that the current minister dedicated to the Government of Rajoy when the price of electricity soared 10% in the middle of January and oppose them to the justifications that it finds today for not acting in a forceful way when the bill has risen "by 27%".

"You have forgotten everything you said when you were in the opposition. You have settled into lies and mockery," the UPN spokesperson accused, opening fire against the minority partner of the Government -Unidas Podemos- whom he reproached " fight for the quotas of power and not for the people "and do it" every day in the Council of Ministers, in the media and in Parliament. "

"It is inadmissible," deputy Sergio Sayas has snapped, "that you are incapable of providing solutions to the most vulnerable in the midst of a cold wave; your interest in the armchair is infinitely greater than your interest in people. We verify the absolute uselessness of his Ministry. "

The PP, along the same lines, has regretted that Garzón did not present his resignation from office after demonstrating his "absolute incapacity."

His spokesperson Carmen Riolobos has urged him to promote a reduction of up to 11% in the global taxes and improper costs that are applied to the electricity bill "to save consumers up to 14,400 million in three years".

Bildu has also assured to expect "more and clearer answers" from Garzón and has regretted that the measures announced by the minister -reform of the social bond, future law on Customer Service, information and awareness campaigns- will not serve to "lift a lot of people out of energy poverty."

Bildu does defend, like Garzón, the creation of a public energy company that counteracts the power of the reigning oligopoly, but when he has asked the minister for precision on this purpose, he has remained without an answer.

The PNV, an ally of the Government, has insisted on the "inability" of the Ministry to intervene in the modification of the electricity bill and has also influenced the positions that Unidos Podemos and Garzón himself held when they were in the opposition and so what are you doing now.

The nationalist spokesman Joseba Agirretxea has branded it "demagoguery", who has urged the minister to "acknowledge that they cannot do anything and that their hands are tied."

Citizens, harsher still, has accused the purple ministers of not doing in the Government "what they promised from the opposition megaphone in hand."

Pablo Cambronero has insisted: "You, Iglesias and Montero attacked the indecency of the Government of Rajoy for allowing a 10% rise in electricity; now that it rises 27%, are you three times as indecent?"

The oranges have wondered if Garzón "paints something in the Council of Ministers" and has regretted that the purple formation only proposes "tax increases with which to pay useless, decorative and superfluous ministries" such as Garzón's own, Irene Montero's or that of Manuel Castells.

Vox has preferred to attack the minister for his "totalitarian and communist" ideology and has branded him and his party as "traitors to the outraged who claimed to come to represent."

The minister has defended himself by ensuring that he maintains the same convictions now as when he was in the opposition and has insisted that the obligation of a decent Executive is to implement measures to reverse a situation that he attributes very mainly to the existence of an energy oligopoly which accounts for 60% of the market for both purchase and sale of energy.

He has ruled out that the solution to the problem is a reduction in taxes, something that in his opinion would only serve to increase the profit margin of energy companies but without affecting the price paid by consumers.

"I do not see that measure," he assured.

Garzón has insisted that the measures that the coalition government is adopting are adequate and are proving "to be successful" but he has asked for "time" to see more tangible results.

He has assured not to pay any attention to the fact that 70% of citizens, according to polls, disapprove of his management and has reproached the opposition parliamentary forces for defending a "soft and photographic liberalism" not to say "not a single one word against the power of the energy oligopoly ".

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