The two great parties of the Congress of Deputies will register in the Courts different commissions of investigation on the blackout that left without light Spain on Monday of last week. The PP spokesman in Congress, Miguel Tellado, has announced the registration of two commissions in the upper house and in the lower house. His counterpart in the PSOE, Patxi López, has done the same, although his group has only asked for it in Congress and has dared to ensure that it will be the one that will go ahead.
Tellado has specified that his party would want that commission to be formed in Congress, but that they also raise it in the Senate, where they enjoy absolute majority, in case the PSOE does not allow it first in the lower house. These parliamentary actions of the PP pursue, on the one hand, portray the government of Pedro Sánchez and its politically allies in Congress and at the same time influence their accusations of incompetence against the Executive in general and in this case about the management of that blackout.
Shortly after these statements, Patxi López has announced that his group will also ask for an investigation commission in Congress but with some differences in their objectives and priorities to that of the PP. López ironized thus with which Tellado had anticipated that the PP the first thing he pursues is “to debug responsibilities and then find out the causes, first shoot and then ask, but we first want to clarify the causes and then we will see if there are political, public and private responsibilities.” There López said in line with the signaling last week by the president himself, Pedro Sánchez, about the behavior of private operators of the electrical system.
The socialist spokesman has also responded to the statements of the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, about the blackout. “When all experts are analyzing thousands of data to know what happened in those five seconds, Feijóo already had the answer in minute one: the fault is of the renewables, the solution is in the nuclear and the responsible is the government,” he said with a sneer.
The PP must now determine if this proposal supports in Congress or follows its path with an alternative commission in the Senate, where they have an absolute majority and could impose their own calendar and appearing. What López did advance was that the first to go to the lower house to give explanations about the incident will be the third vice president of ecological transition, Sara Aagensen, who will appear on the matter next Wednesday before the plenary. President Sánchez will star on Wednesday a plenary session in which the controversial issue of 2% of the investment in defense and security and also what happened with the blackout will be addressed.
The PP leader has already anticipated his criticisms against the antinuclear policy of the PSOE: “If it does not specify what failed to fall for the electricity sector, how can it be so sure that nuclear has been a problem?” He argued. The popular suggest that the Sánchez Executive has put the entire accent in these years in renewable energies and the PP maintains that they are important, but that they should be compatible with other “backup energies” among those include nuclear. The PP, in fact, will force on Tuesday a vote of a non -law proposition to reconsider the entire energy plan of the country.
The PP argues that the Commission on the Energy and Informative Broader will be formed, in any case, to know its exact causes, demand responsibilities and raise issues that have been put on the table that could have failed in the system.
