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"Whoever says that there is some measure that can allow us to change things from one day to the next, with a publication in the BOE of something magical, either has no idea what they are talking about or is doing cheap demagoguery."

The price of electricity continues to generate tensions in the Executive.

With the above words, the third vice president and Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, responded this Friday to the parliamentary spokesperson of United We Can, Pablo Echenique, who this Thursday demanded to limit the price of the megawatt hour via Royal Decree.

"Maybe you can't convince Putin," Echenique defended this Friday, "but the Government could limit the price of nuclear and hydroelectric MWh with a Royal Decree tomorrow and create a public company to combat price manipulation."

In a similar vein, the national spokesperson for Podemos, Pablo Fernández, promoted this measure on Friday: "Today, a maximum price for hydroelectric and nuclear energy could be set by Royal Decree," he explained in an interview on Antena. 3. The

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see with good eyes that the PSOE "agrees" to study the creation of a public energy company, an approach that Podemos has been proposing for years.

A creation that from Podemos have opined this Friday that it should not be "immediate", but "in the medium term". The objective, explained Fernández, is that as private concessions expire, "recover them for public management and thus create a public energy company." What the purple ones that could be achieved "tomorrow" itself do demand is to fix, via Royal Decree, the maximum cost of the nuclear and hydroelectric megawatt hour.

"Tomorrow the light cannot be turned down with a decree law", the vice president has settled, "unless we make a kind of Brexit of the European electricity market or we decide to do without natural gas or other energy sources".

The electricity generation conditions, he explained in this regard, are "subject" to European rules.

"We cannot sell below price."

The Government does not have "a magic wand"

Ribera, in an interview with LaSexta, has considered "a false expectation" to suggest that the price of electricity can be modified by means of a Royal Decree, as proposed by its government partner, Unidas Podemos.

"To say that this is resolved with a decree law is to generate a false expectation," he said.

The vice president has ruled out that "with a single measure" published "in the BOE" it is possible "in 24 hours" to modify the wholesale electricity market to make it go down "by half. The Government does not have "a magic wand" to achieve this, it has advocated, but must "continue working."

The Minister of Ecological Transition has admitted that she is "perplexed", in addition, of the "confusing lessons" given by the Popular Party from the opposition and has explained that the electricity bill is based on many more factors than consumption itself.

"Paying only for the energy consumed is something strange, demagogic, frivolous", has considered Ribera, who has accused the PP of wanting to "make up" the data of their proposals without including in them the "associated costs".

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