Moreno's government is reluctant to join the PP's hard line of confrontation against Pedro Sánchez

Neither rebelliousness nor hard line of confrontation.

The Government of Juanma Moreno is reluctant to join Isabel Díaz Ayuso's strategy of using the regional government as a battering ram in the war against Pedro Sánchez.

The Andalusian Executive has clearly distanced itself from this way of relating to the administrations where the Popular Party does not govern and seeks to maintain the path of collaboration that, for the moment, has given it the best political returns.

"I am not in favor of judicial battles", the president of the Board affirmed this Tuesday, which guarantees that, in any case, the norm dictated by the Government will be complied with, thus moving away from any temptation of refusal.

As happened during the times of

-governance in the pandemic, the Government of Juanma Moreno prefers to negotiate rather than face the decisions of the Sánchez Executive, although it does not miss the opportunity to strongly criticize the forms and also the substance of some of the decisions that are imposed on him.

"We are a government of solutions," said the advisor to the Presidency,

, on Tuesday, after avoiding announcing an appeal before the Constitutional Court against the decree for energy savings that the

has sent without prior consensus to the communities. autonomous.

Nor has it been completely ruled out.

The Board says that it will analyze the document in detail and that it will send it to its legal services to assess whether it collides with or invades regional powers.

A kick forward is given, therefore, to a decision that, on the contrary, both the national leadership of the PP and the Government of the

seem to be clear about without the need to exhaust the three-month period that the law grants to administrations to appeal to the Constitutional Court.

The Board is not going to give up confrontation with the Government of Sánchez.

But the style that Moreno imposes on his government has little to do with raising more dust than necessary.

Because the differences are more formal than substantive.

In fact, the Andalusian Government has announced its own plan to reduce energy consumption in the regional administration, which is even more ambitious than the one required by the Pedro Sánchez Government from the public sector.

Moreno has made the fight against climate change one of his flags, thus snatching the hegemony of the ecological discourse from the left.

And he does not seem willing for the opportunity to stand up against the Government of Pedro Sánchez to ruin his government program.

The Councilor for Industrial Policy of the Board,

, a technician who comes from the business world and lacks party culture, defended this Tuesday, after the Governing Council, the measures that the Board will adopt to guarantee savings even " higher than 7% of the electricity consumption that the state decree requires of the autonomous communities".

Pardela did not hide his discomfort at the forms of the Ministry of Teresa Ribera after the Intersectoral Conference of Industry and Environment met on Monday.

Nor his disagreement with the coercive nature of the decree.

The counselor stated that he would have preferred the same measures to be proposed but in the form of recommendations, especially those aimed at the private sector.

But, when the journalists asked him if he saw reasons to present an

against the decree, the counselor refused to answer directly and gave the floor to the head of the Presidency, much more involved in political rhetoric.

However, Antonio Sanz did not offer a definitive answer either, he advocated negotiation and conditioned the decision to the opinion of the legal services.

Later, in statements to the EFE agency, the Andalusian president himself stated that he does not want to open a "judicial battle" in the Constitutional Court against the energy saving decree law, although he believes the invasion of regional powers is "probable", for which he asked the Government to "return" to dialogue and negotiate it with the affected communities and sectors.

Moreno also referred to the decision of the Government of Díaz Ayuso and explained that he "understands" that each community has its "singularities" and "interests" and that the decree affects "some autonomies more, in the case of Madrid, than others" .

The Government of Juanma Moreno is convinced that its commitment to institutional collaboration and moderation in discourse is at the bottom of its electoral success on June 19, when it achieved a historic absolute majority that managed to stop Vox and corner the PSOE .

In his environment, the style of the Andalusian president is defended as a successful strategy, not only to reach agreements that benefit Andalusians, but also to feed the focused image of Juanma Moreno, which has allowed him to break down the old electoral barriers of the PP .

This is how the Board wants to save on its energy bill

The Junta already has a centralized contract for the 5,000 electricity supply points it has, which include hospitals, institutes, sports facilities, administrative offices and Andalusian universities and which, for the first time in Andalusia, guarantees that 100 % of the supply comes from renewable energies.

That contributes, he assures, to reducing annual CO2 emissions by 500,000 tons.

A plan will also be launched to optimize the contracted power, so that it adapts to the real needs of the buildings.

Likewise, energy audits will be carried out to find out where renewable energy sources can be installed, the efficiency of courthouses and hospitals will be improved, for example, and self-consumption will be encouraged.

For this, there is already an investment plan (REDEJA) with Feder funds in which 27 million euros have already been invested.

The Minister for Industrial Policy and Energy also recalled that the Board has a new fleet of 147 100% electric vehicles, in which 5.2 million euros have been invested (co-financed through the MOVES programme).

In the last legislature, the Andalusian Energy Agency managed a dozen programs to install self-consumption in homes and businesses, for storage, to improve the energy efficiency of homes, businesses and industries, and to commit to sustainable mobility, "mobilizing investments close to 1,730 million euros in more than 38,800 projects".

new investments

All in all, the Ministry calculates that "Andalusia needs more investment in infrastructure of the transport and evacuation network to meet the potential of renewable projects that the community has."

Andalusia estimates the necessary investments in electrical infrastructure at 736 million "on the basis of what corresponds to it by population weight, surface area or electricity consumption."

According to a report by the Andalusian Energy Agency, the density of the transport network per inhabitant is 42% lower than the average peninsular values, that is, "the community has 712 kilometers of network for every million inhabitants compared to the 1,231 kilometers on average in the Peninsula".

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