The People's Party (PP) launches into a rebuttal of Sánchez's account of the blackout and energy

In his appearance on Wednesday to account for the April 28 blackout and defend the government's defense plan, Pedro Sánchez spent more than three hours in the Congressional speaker's gallery. According to PP sources, the aim was to extend the debate beyond three o'clock so that Alberto Núñez Feijóo and the other spokespersons' comments wouldn't be broadcast on the midday news.

Perhaps for this reason, and because its leader wasted no time in the initial 20 minutes and the seven minutes of the second speech to refute all of the Prime Minister's "falsehoods," the PP launched an offensive yesterday to refute Sánchez's statements about the circumstances that led to the power outage.

While tariffs were being discussed in the chamber, in the corridors of Congress, PP deputies speaking to the press were slow to refute the optimistic version that the president had offered the day before, more than a week after the blackout that left the Iberian Peninsula without power for an entire day.

The time elapsed since that Monday when Spain went dark, PP sources maintain, is more than enough to provide an answer to the causes of what happened, but the left-wing government refuses to do so, lest it assume that it was its "ideological dogmatism" that led to putting more stress than advisable, as technicians had already warned, on the Spanish electricity system in order to claim the European renewable energy champion's medal.

"Energy competition is just another invention," they assert in the PP, where they are very clear that the premise of the model, as established by the 1997 Electricity Sector Law, is to guarantee supply. Only then can they strive to ensure that prices are as low as possible for consumers—which also favors the competitiveness of companies—based on generation capacity and, finally, that the sources are sustainable, that is, renewable.

In this regard, the PP accuses the Ministry for Ecological Transition, both under its current head, Sara Aagesen, and under its previous head, Teresa Ribera, of having made mistakes in planning and having put the Red Eléctrica (REE) under extreme strain.

“Everyone knows what happened,” they exclaim. Regardless of the specific incident that caused the power outage, “a risky situation was created for political reasons,” asserts the PP, which relies on the opinion of experts: “There isn't a reasonable expert who wouldn't say it: they wanted to break a record for renewable energy.”

"But it's impossible to talk to someone who's lying: the nuclear power plants didn't cut off because of the blackout, but because of a lack of consumption," added members of the Popular Party (PP), who deplore that, while Spain's energy mix is ​​"the best in Europe," the government is now "confusing" by prioritizing, they maintain, political criteria over scientific ones.

The Popular Party claims that the premise of guaranteeing supply was ignored for ideological reasons.

“We mustn't buy into the confrontation between technologies. We mustn't be ahead of technology,” insists the PP, arguing that “no one in the world” is dismantling nuclear generation, which in Spain accounts for 20%. “We're destroying REE. The system works well and they wiped it out in a day. The data is already in, but they can't come out and say we're going too far and putting stress on the system,” the PP complains, pointing to Sánchez's “wall.”