The People's Party (PP) is warming up Sánchez's appearance today regarding the blackout with its pro-nuclear proposal.

The blackout on Monday, April 28, reached Congress yesterday in the form of a debate on the Spanish energy model, following a non-legislative motion (PNL) from the People's Party (PP) calling for extending the useful life of nuclear power plants.

The blackout across the Iberian Peninsula a week ago was the perfect setting for the People's Party (PP), ahead of today's appearance by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to report on what happened, to call for a "comprehensive strategy for a clean, fair, and competitive energy transition." This, in short, aims to reverse the reactor closure schedule agreed upon with the power companies in 2019.

Government support groups criticize the opportunism of the debate and defend renewable energy.

The PP believes that the "vulnerability" and "fragility" that became evident eight days ago with the sudden "energy blackout," which left 60 million Spanish and Portuguese citizens without power for hours on end, reinforce their position: "We've been warning about this," said Valencian MP César Sánchez, the person in charge of defending the PP's position, who referred to risk reports from Red Eléctrica (REE) that pointed to the "high penetration of renewables" in a system "without the technical capacity" to deal with this type of "disturbance."

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After Vox defended its amendment on the grounds that the Nationalist Party (PNV) does not question the European Green Deal or defend the Spanish countryside from "macro solar plants," the other groups criticized the opportunism of the debate, following an initiative that the PNV described as "outdated" since it was registered in October of last year. They defended the commitment to renewable energy not only for environmental reasons—with the memory of the accidents at the Chernobyl and Fukushima power plants in mind—but also for economic reasons, since nuclear energy is four times more expensive than wind and solar power, as Sumar argued.

And while ERC and Junts, despite their reluctance to dispense with the Ascó and Vandellòs plants without seeking alternatives for the region and guaranteeing supply for Catalonia, distanced themselves from the PP's plan, the PSOE turned to a heavyweight like Cristina Narbona to defend the government: "You can see their true colors," she said, referring to the PP's refusal to support the anti-tariff decree under the pretext of extending the life of nuclear plants, which, in her opinion, seeks to favor electricity companies.