Albacete, Feb 16 (EFE).- The Minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, has criticized that Murcia is going to propose in the Congress of Deputies that the hydrological basin plans be repealed because she understands that it means violating the legislation european.
He has pointed out that “it is a contradiction to promote a bill to claim breaking the laws.”
“Each public official can take the measures they consider most appropriate, but the president of the Murcia region apparently has not yet understood issues that are very important,” Ribera said in Albacete, to questions from the media about the announcement by the president of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, that he will present a parliamentary initiative in the Lower House to repeal the basin plans.
Ribera, who has inaugurated the IV National Congress on Depopulation and Demographic Challenge, which is held at the Teatro Circo de Albacete, has stressed: “European and national laws are to be complied with and it is essential to ensure the flow of each of our rivers , especially when there are five sentences that condemn us because the Tagus did not have it”.
Asked about the legislative initiative announced by López Miras, which proposes the restitution of the Tajo-Segura aqueduct exploitation rules established in the so-called Memorandum law, the minister clarified: “We have not said that the transfer is closed, but that it is necessary to guarantee, above the volume of water for the rest of the uses, the requirements in quantity and quality and the supply for drinking water”.
“There is a wrong interpretation of the rules”, has considered the head of Ecological Transition, who understands that “it is a serious mistake to ignore that we are anticipating solutions”, since, as she has warned, in 2050 rainfall could drop by up to 40 percent.
In his opinion, “it makes little sense to insist that someone give me what does not exist”, has opined Ribera, who has assured that “the best thing for the citizens of Murcia is to anticipate additional contributions of water by other means, boost efficiency and guarantee a prioritization of uses and a reasonable cost for economic uses that does not leave small farmers out of the market”.
On the other hand, when asked about the social electricity bonus, the minister stressed that “it is well below the potential number of beneficiaries who could be eligible”, while commenting: “Our obligation as a Government is to offer this right, this proposal , not impose”, because as he has said “there may be different reasons for not taking advantage of these rates”.
“It is obvious that what we must guarantee is that all the people who have the right to take advantage of these rates know them,” Ribera reiterated, who has insisted: “If knowing it they decide not to take advantage, I think it is something that must be respected, it can be for very different reasons.”
