Government and PP lead to Congress Vote Two Black Investigation Commissions | Spain

The government is confident that The Plenary of Congress approves this Wednesday A proposal for the creation of a commission of investigation on the great blackout suffered in Spain on April 28, but it could happen that the Commission for the Investigation on that electricity that took black to the entire country that came forward was the one that asks for the PP in front of the initiative of the PSOE and add. The blackout and the object of the two commissions is in theory. And both requests will be discussed and voted. The result is not resolved. Chamber parliamentary and political sources recognize that the scenario, in addition to unusual, is « absurd. »

This Wednesday, after another control session to the Executive with many absences in Congress, the deputies will have the opportunity to attend another peculiar moment in this strange and complex XV Legislature. The parliamentarians will discuss and vote two requests for the creation of research commissions on the same subject.

The first, At the request of the Popular Groupit is proposed “on the interruption of electricity and communications on April 28, 2025 that affected the national territory, in order to analyze the causes of the serious incident, the effectiveness of the prevention measures that would have avoided it, the serious consequences of the national emergency and promote legal measures and all kinds that must be adopted to ensure that in the future similar facts do not occur again”. The second, At the initiative of the socialist groups and add« About the facts, the causes, responsibilities and teachings to extract about the electricity supply crisis that took place on April 28, 2025. »

They seem to state the same, but they pursue different political goals. The Board of Spokespersons of the Congress that discussed last week the issues to be included in the agenda of this week tried, as has happened in the past in this type of situation, integrate both requests into one to facilitate and lighten the debate and voting. This was done in 2017 to integrate into a commission asked to inquire about Bankia’s rescue and the financial system in general. Or after 2023, the Catalonia and Pegasus operation merged. Now it has not been possible.

The socialist spokesman, Patxi López, later recognized the result « makes no sense. » Other sources of the Government and Congress accept that the panorama that is predicted is « absurd. » There will be two debates of the spokesmen of the promoting groups, two exhibitions on the objective of the commissions, and the groups will take positions on them to reach the end of two votes.

Everything seems to indicate, by the exhibitions advanced by the groups last week, that the commission of the blackout that will triumph will be the one promoted by the coalition government, with PSOE and add, and the alliance of its usual partners.

The PP immediately claimed, after 28, the urgent appearance of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the third vice president, Sara Aagesen, and both accepted the discussion without delay, although they could not clarify the causes of the energy crisis. The groups assume that from the opposition the appearances of both before the commission will be claimed again, as well as that of other members of the Executive and the Red Electric company, which manages the network, has public participation and is chaired by the former socialist minister Beatriz Corredor.

The president already anticipated in his presentation before the Congress that would reach the bottom in his inquiries about the origin of the blackout, But he also demanded clarifications to energy companies: « On Tuesday 29, the Government asked Red Electrica and the rest of the energy companies to carry out an exhaustive examination of their telemetrías, exam whose results we are already receiving and analyzing. » It is not clear if the government intends to require the presence of those responsible for these companies, with great influence, in the commission. The PP has anticipated that you do not want them in the commission of independent experts that it has requested within the European Union. The parties have not yet reached that point of designing neither the calendar nor the type of appearing parties.

Congress has Now on progress two research commissions and two dissolved Claimed by the independence allies after the 2023 elections, another about to initiate their work on the DANA that devastated the Valencian Community and whose deadline to present proposals, calendar and appearing ends this Friday, and there are three others underway and another newly registered in the Senate, where the PP dominates with an absolute majority. In Congress, a similar double investigation commission proposal was voted in 2017, at that time on the precedent of the so -called Catalonia operation, But that he focused more on the performance of the then Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díazagainst political rivals.