With the year 2020 going through its last days, the economic sphere is firing and increasing the discrepancies between the two government partners: evictions, minimum wages, pensions, cuts in basic supplies … to which is added the positions faced around the monarchy. The formation of Pablo Iglesias is determined to keep up the pulse. One of the most entrenched fronts now is with Transición Ecológica, the department that directs the Vice President Teresa Ribera, and whom the purple ones indicate as the brake to prohibit that the water, the light or the gas can be cut to vulnerable people while the alarm state lasts.
This measure has generated friction in the coalition for months. In fact, the lack of understanding between the PSOE and Unidos Podemos left it out of the last renovation, at the end of September, of the so-called “social shield”. The intention of the United We Can ministers was to integrate this prohibition into the decree to paralyze evictions, but the socialist sector did not contemplate it. The negotiation then led to Ecological Transition, with whom, to date, there is no understanding despite having been in dialogue for several days.
Faced with this situation, sources from the purple formation explain that they have put on the table, to try to bring positions closer, a system similar to that agreed with the Ministry of Transport and Housing for evictions: make it mandatory for electricity, gas and water supply companies to request a report from social services before proceeding with the cut in order to check if the family is in a vulnerable situation.
The mantra repeated by the leaders of United We Can is that the Government cannot ask citizens to maintain constant hygiene, washing their hands, to prevent Covid-19 and that certain people have their water cut off. Or that, the ministerial sources consulted argue, that now that the cold is coming, people can be left without resources without heating.
In the opinion of Ione Belarra, leader of United We Can and Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda, “in the middle of winter we cannot speak of a decent home if we do not also guarantee the supplies of water, electricity and gas that allow families to heat their houses, shower with hot water or cook”.
The open fronts with Nadia Calvià ± oo MarÃa Jesús Montero are joined by a new one with Teresa Ribera. In September there were already rough spots that were smoothed out, leaving the ban on supply cuts out of the extended measures, but the social bonus was expanded so that more families could benefit from it. Now United We can demand the ban.
United We can consider it “essential” that the large energy companies in the country, “with millionaire profits, pitch in in the middle of the pandemic and take joint responsibility for the guarantee of human rights since they benefit from marketing a basic necessity good” . Another pulse on the table. And they go…
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