In the round of televised electoral interviews with which Pedro Sanchez He is extolling his ministers, today it was Teresa Ribera’s turn. The nuclear controversy has been at the center of the face-to-face between the head of Ecological Transition and the President of the Government. The first as an interviewee and the second as an interviewer, both have strongly criticized the proposal announced a few days ago by the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóoto extend the life of the nuclear fleet.
“I don’t know of any PP mayor who has raised his hand to ask for a nuclear power plant in his territory”, Sánchez has ironized. For his part, Ribera has questioned the numbers of the plan of the main opposition party. The minister stressed that the current plan for a nuclear blackout in 2035 is the result of an agreement with the companies that own the plants and has indicated that they were the ones who opted for an orderly shutdown as they saw the necessary investment for maintenance as unfeasible. the same.
Along these lines, Ribera has defended that the message from the electric companies was clear and that they would only reconsider the closure once they were clear about who was paying the nuclear bill. For this reason, in the eyes of the vice president, Feijóo’s plan “There are only two answers, consumers pay or public budgets”. Likewise, Sánchez has made it ugly that the main opposition party has not gone into detail and does not reveal how it intends to finance the nuclear park.
The interview started with a scene from the series Blue summer in which the actors sang an environmental theme song: “Don’t kill my planet, please.” Both Sánchez and Ribera have alluded to the iconic RTVE production on which the PP has based one of its campaign slogans, to attack Feijóo’s approaches. “Perhaps in the PP they did not remember that it is a series that tells the story of an old fisherman, a half-hippie artist and a group of kids who unite against an urban hit, a brick on the Mediterranean coast of our country”.
To this day, no one in the Moncloa environment denies that Teresa Ribera has been a key piece of the Sánchez government, especially in the final stretch of the legislature, when the energy price crisis has placed energy policy at the center of the executive’s agenda and has raised the public profile of the third vice president and her . Sánchez has this relevance “At the last Climate Summit, people wondered ‘Who is that that goes with Ribera?’ It was me“, has extolled the leader of the PSOE.