The Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, during his statements to the media this Wednesday.Marta Fernández Jara (Europa Press)
The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, said this Wednesday that the leader of the People’s Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, suffered “cold sweat” after the PP changed its position regarding the face-to-face meeting it wanted with the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. On Aug. 27, the Conservative formation called for a Senate debate between both leaders to address energy-saving measures. The executive branch accepted the motion this Tuesday and called for Sanchez to appear in the Senate, but the population changed its position and demanded that the discussion not only deal with energy issues but also extend to general political issues. “Yesterday was a very bad day at the PP headquarters, what a cold sweat Feijóo had when he found out that he had to debate with the Prime Minister in the Senate on Tuesday,” Bolaños said during a visit to the exhumation plant for victims of Francoism the cemetery of Colmenar Vijo (Madrid). The leader of the People’s Party has branded the Presidency Minister’s remarks an “insult”, although he has celebrated the government’s acceptance of the debate: “During [el presidente] appears in the Senate, the ministers will not offend us,” Feijóo previously assured.
The PP’s deputy economic secretary, Juan Bravo, demonstrated this Tuesday the PP’s change of position: “Since the energy issue is important, it would be necessary to talk about the difficult months ahead, about inflation or the start of the school year,” he said in In an interview in Four Minister Bolaños attacked the lack of proposals from the main opposition party in the face of the energy crisis that Europe is suffering: “On Tuesday in the Senate the measures and proposals of the Spanish government, which set the pace for energy saving in Europe, were presented in the Senate Compared to the absolute nothing that is the project of the PP”.
The PP spokesman in the Upper House, Javier Maroto, has celebrated that Sánchez accepted Feijóo’s proposal, despite the executive chief’s “uncertainty”, which the spokesman said had become clear after the “ups and downs” of the government. “You didn’t make it clear until the last moment whether there would be a debate,” criticized Maroto, who didn’t want to limit the meeting to energy issues and stressed that “current issues” would be discussed next Tuesday. Bolaños stressed that in the letter the executive is already proposing to discuss other issues besides the energy issue: “You didn’t even manage to read the three lines of the request to appear at the President’s own request.”
The PP senator has also proposed a reduction in VAT on gas in order to “reduce the bills of many families”. Bolaños has responded to the PP’s tax proposals: “When you’re in opposition, you lower taxes and when you’re in government, you raise them.” The minister reminded that this government reduced the electricity tax from 21% to 5%. “They have no credibility,” Bolaños concluded.
This dispute between the government and the PP came after the regional president attended a strategy meeting of the German executive at the invitation of German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz. Bolaños has used the unity between the two leaders on energy issues to praise Sánchez’s importance at the European level after European Commission President Úrsula von der Leyen announced the “urgent” energy market intervention on Tuesday. as addressed by the Spanish executive: “It is a source of pride”.
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