The PNV, a priority partner of the Executive, essential to carry out the General State Budgets that arrive this morning to the Chamber, has warned Pedro Sánchez that the Government is "gambling its future" beaten by the price of electricity that It has had a full impact not only on domestic consumers but also, and definitively, on large energy consuming companies that, like Sidenor, are already announcing paralysis in production to try to weather the exorbitant increase in their costs.

The Basque nationalist spokesman in the Chamber, Aitor Esteban, has questioned the president on this issue and has urged him to "tweak" the royal decree that reduces, among other measures, the benefits of electricity companies to pass them on in favor of electricity consumers and that tomorrow it would have to be validated by the Chamber to remain in force. At the moment, the validation is in the air with PP, Vox, Ciudadanos and PNV tilting towards 'no'. In this way, approval would remain in the hands of ERC and Bildu, two forces that would once again be essential to save government policy.

Sánchez, however, has described as "key" the impulse that he is giving to a common policy of gas purchases in Europe and has insisted that the reduction of the benefits of electricity companies is a measure of social justice.

Therefore, the president is not willing to modify this initiative and the most he has committed to is to "clarify" the terms of the decree.

Esteban has put his finger on the sore of the norm when he has revealed that the electricity companies are passing on the losses to which the government decree leads them to the fixed contracts of industrial customers.

"Some companies," Esteban has warned, referring to the Sidenor case, "are already stopping their production and if we continue like this we will go to new Ertes. We have to clarify things."

In the opinion of the PNV "it is necessary to prevent companies that have diversified energy sources from playing at will with them to make a profit or that the electricity companies use the companies as a battering ram for their own interests."

However, in the opinion of Basque nationalism, the formula for profit cuts for electricity companies is a "simple" solution that will not solve the problem because companies are already facing a situation of scarcity of raw materials and high prices for them.

"This", Esteban stressed, "could be a blow that will knock them down permanently and that means less work, less investment, less exports, less GDP, less revenue and fewer social policies."

For all this, the parliamentary spokesman has urged Sánchez to "do something and not only at the European level."

"He should retouch, reorient the decree law that is going to be voted in this Chamber tomorrow because the future of the economy and of his own Government is at stake and because without competitiveness there is no economic recovery."

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