Podemos proposes a 40% discount on the price of electricity to families with less than 40,000 euros of income

ABCMADRID Updated: 04/18/2022 14:43h
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Podemos has proposed to the coalition Executive to deploy a 40% discount on the price of the regulated rate PVPC (Voluntary Price for Small Consumers), which must cover the "obscene" benefits of electricity companies, and prohibit the permanence clauses that require these companies. “The cost (of the 40% reduction) has to be paid by the electricity companies, who have been stealing and looting for a long time but now, in addition, with unsustainable prices,” the co-spokesperson for the purple formation, Pablo Fernández, transferred at a press conference. , to baptize the proposal as 'Iberdrola rate'.

In this regard, he has appealed to the need to articulate these measures and further extend protection to consumers, after the approval at the end of March of the social bonus to 600,000 more families.

And it is that despite this rise in the social bonus, Podemos understands that there is a section of households that assume energy vulnerability and do not benefit from this measure. Therefore, they propose this 40% discount to families with incomes of less than 40,000 euros per year.

Fernández has pointed out that it is time for the electricity companies "to start putting their shoulders to the wheel" to reduce the electricity bill, given their "bleeding" benefits 'from heaven'.

Together with this, Podemos demands the prohibition of the clauses of permanence of contracts of the electricity companies, which in the opinion of the leader “threaten” to affect the free market the gas cap promoted by the Executive.

In this way, he believes that withdrawing this condition of permanence is the option so that they do not charge that discount to customers in a generalized way.

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