The Popular Party of Lanzarote will carry out, starting on October 8, "a campaign throughout all the municipalities of the island in order to inform about the measures that have been put on the table by the Popular Party, in order to face the unstoppable rise in the price of electricity that does not stop setting historical records."
From the Popular Party they assure that "they are going to continue fighting against the injustice that it supposes for everyone, especially for families and SMEs, some electricity rates that are absolutely abusive". Precisely, they assure that this occurs "when family economies and small businesses need a boost, they find more and more obstacles to overcome the crisis situation experienced with the pandemic."
"We have the most expensive bill in history and the highest in all of Europe. Any business or small company has seen how their bill has doubled or tripled overnight, and from paying 1,000 or 2,000 euros for electricity they have gone on to pay 2,000 or 4,000 euros," say the Popular Party members.
The Popular Party sees Pedro Sánchez's proposal as "bread for today and hunger for tomorrow." "What is not paid now must be paid in April, it will also have the indirect effect of the immediate rise in diesel and gasoline. It is unfortunate that in an energy crisis like the current one, Pedro Sánchez continues to bury his head in the sand and continues without adopting short-term measures to stop this rise," they question from the PP.
The Popular Party takes the opportunity to lash out at the central government, considering that it is "the same strategy that it has already demonstrated with respect to illegal immigration in the islands, looking the other way, not facing the problems and rejecting the proposals of the opposition."
"In this sense, we regret that the Sánchez Government refuses to study the initiatives presented by the Popular Party and that would allow the bill to be reduced by 20%. Among them is the transfer of non-energy costs to the general state budgets; use the 2,300 million in revenue from CO2 rights to help pay the bill for the most vulnerable; eliminate the tax on the value of electricity production permanently or lower VAT to 10 percent, among others," the Popular Party members conclude.
