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Immovable posture despite autonomic discomfort.

The Government does not plan to modify the Royal Decree establishing measures for energy saving and efficiency.

The meeting to which the

Ministry of Ecological Transition

has called the regions, scheduled for Tuesday, only has the objective of "answering the doubts" that the communities may have about "the application" and execution of the package.

The territorial pulse forced the Executive of Pedro Sánchez to specify on Friday the "flexibility" of his plan and to emphasize that, within the framework of labor legislation, certain establishments and businesses will finally be able to set the thermostat at 25 degrees, two less than what it was announced last Monday after the Council of Ministers.

The Government has summoned the autonomies to a "technical" meeting on this matter.

Several regional presidents of all political persuasions have repeatedly expressed the uncertainty of a plan in which they assure that they have not participated and that collides with their energy saving schemes and efficiency in public spending.

From Ecological Transition it is denied that the Royal Decree has been "modified, revised or made more flexible", but that the "exceptions" clarified in the last hours were part of the norm "from the beginning".

A justification that is valid to close the door to possible rectifications after Tuesday's meeting of the communities with the central government.

The regional executives hope, on the contrary, that the appointment will be used to "sensitize" Moncloa and introduce modifications to the package of measures.

But not.

Moreover, from the ministry commanded by the fourth vice president of the Government, Teresa Ribera, it is stressed that communication and "prior dialogue" with the autonomies has been the trend of recent weeks.

And the regional executives and municipalities are accused of not having presented proposals despite the fact that just ten days ago, on July 28, the minister met with the Ministers of the Environment and Energy.

Meanwhile, the autonomies do not lower their tone after being singled out for making "noise" and, especially those governed by the Popular Party, demand that the format of the meeting allows the councilors to ask Minister Ribera for changes in the Royal Decree again.

strong opposition

This is required, for example, by the

Community of Madrid

: «They improvise a technical meeting, without an agenda, when the problem they have created is of the highest political level.

The minister has to meet in a timely manner with her advisers », Isabel Díaz Ayuso wrote on social networks.

As asserted from Sol, the autonomies learned "through the press" of the call late on Friday.

"The president [Ayuso] should know that last week there was already that meeting at the political level," Minister Ribera reiterated this Saturday, in response to the

popular leader.

"The agreement that had been reached on Tuesday in the Council of Energy Ministers was transferred," he said in an interview on Radio Nacional, collected by Europa Press, in which he made it clear that Tuesday's meeting will serve exclusively to "guarantee the correct application of the energy decree.

"We do not discuss the content, but how to implement it," she warned the autonomies.

Madrid responded by letter demanding that he summon the councilors.

But the uncertainty does not only come from Madrid.

A similar feeling spreads in the

Junta de Castilla y León,

where they continue to study the overtones of unconstitutionality that the document may have.

There, both the popular and Vox have promised to comply with the package of measures, but they are suspicious of the unilateralism shown by La Moncloa and criticize that Sánchez governs "by Royal Decree."

"To be useful, co-governance must have everyone," said this Saturday the president of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco.

“We demand dialogue, participation and consensus.

Raising awareness is not imposing.

In this sense, the Board called for the convocation of the Energy sector conference, so that all the directors of the branch could participate and contribute proposals to the package of measures. Precisely what they now regret that they will not be able to do in the meeting on Tuesday.

In the eyes of the Executive, the Popular Party has designed its latest offensive against Pedro Sánchez, relying on its baronies.

A strategy in which the opposition leader has not yet appeared.

"That he put order in his party," the Minister of Culture, Miquel Iceta, asked Alberto Núñez Feijóo yesterday.

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