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Podemos admitted this Friday that the proposal to create a public energy company in Spain, which assumes the management of hydroelectric plants that are currently granted to private companies, "is not immediate" and requires time, so it would not have immediate effect on the current increase in the price of electricity.
In an interview on Antena 3 collected by Servimedia, the spokesperson for Podemos and the general coordinator of this party in
Castilla y León
,
Pablo Fernández
, celebrated the "good step" of the vice president and minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, by raising "for the first time "that a public energy company manages the hydroelectric plants as the current concessions end.
Although he stressed that this proposal "comes to a tail" from Podemos, which has been asking for a public energy company for years, he praised that the PSOE "agrees" to the thesis of the
purple
formation
to "intervene and regulate the energy market and set a price to each "type of energy.
"We have been making these proposals for months to create a public energy company and the PSOE seems to accept and agree to finally create a public company," he said.
"It is true that it is not an immediate solution, nor from one day to the next, but this must be raised."
Fernández argued that a public energy company "is a medium-term solution" to assume that the Government manages "those concessions that are currently in private hands."
"Many of them are expiring or are going to expire and the idea is, as they expire, to recover them for public management and thus create a public energy company," he added.
In his opinion, it is "a scam and a scam" that they are currently paying for cheap energy such as hydroelectric or nuclear "at the price of gas" and he blamed this directly on the Popular Party for the reform of the electricity auction that it introduced "ago two decades "in the market under the mandate of José María Aznar and companies such as Iberdrola that now
Fernández pointed out that, from Podemos, the government has already promoted the approval of other measures such as the reduction of the
VAT
tax on
electricity for families and retail consumers.
However, he acknowledged that the current rise in light has eaten up that margin.
"We knew that the VAT reduction was temporary and was not a panacea, but the despicable thing is that the electricity companies, instead of lowering it to consumers, have pocketed it. It is unfortunate," he emphasized.
Regarding the call of the leader of Podemos Pablo Echenique to protest in the streets over the rise in electricity, Fernández ratified that his party plans to fight from all areas for this issue: within the Government, in the Congress of Deputies and also with demonstrations .
"We are in favor of people mobilizing and being able to protest against something that is a scam, such as the electricity auction," he commented, stating that Podemos will not organize demonstrations, but will be "behind" to support them.
"It is legitimate for citizens to take to the streets to complain that this electrical system is a scam."
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