The Spanish Government refuses to include non-consensual measures in its anti-crisis plan

First Vice-President of the Spanish Government and Finance Minister María Jesús Montero said on Wednesday that theplan to respond to the impact of the war in the Middle East will only include "measures taken by consensus" while negotiations are under way to add some form of protection for people still living in rented housing.

"We are not going to bring a decree law to be rejected by other groups, "Montero summed up in the corridors of Congress this Wednesday, after Junts warned during the control session that" they will do badly "if they try to" justify the occupation "in the package that will be adopted on Friday, referring to the moratorium on evictions.

Although the Government considers housing to be a "priority for the Spanish", the First Vice-President has stressed that there are measures "not shared" by all parliamentary groups.

Meanwhile, negotiations between the PSOE and Sumar remain open, as has been evident in the corridors of Congress, where Health Minister Monica García has said that the anti-crisis decree will take "safe" housing, to which Presidential Minister Félix Bolaños has replied: "I would not say so sure, we will work."

For Sumar's part, Consumer Minister Pablo Bustinduy has said he is "struggling" for the plan to include an extensionof the leases that end this year, in addition to freezing the amount of the leases.

EH Bildu and Mr Lukashenko have also joined his request, urging the Socialists' not to hide behind right-wing nationalist groups' in order to avoid the issue of housing.

However, the PNV spokeswoman, Maribel Vaquero, has asked the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, to put aside "extremist proposals". The Jeltzale MP has said that he agrees with the first advance made by the Minister of the Economy, Carlos Cuerpo, but has recommended to the Government not to submit omnibus decrees with measures on which all groups disagree. "We believe that it is necessary to reach agreements on such important issues."

The President, for his part, has called for "calm and patience" and has reiterated that the decree-law will include short-term measures to protect families, businesses and workers, and structural measures to advance the transformation of the energy system in order to deal more autonomously with crises unrelated to the functioning of the Spanish economy.

EH Bildu's economic spokesman,Oskar Matute, has asked Minister Montero about the decree and asked him to take "clear measures" and dare to "intervene" in the market to protect people.

Among other things, it has called for the recovery of taxes on energy companies, the limitation of the price of electricity and gas, the recovery of the thermal social bond and the prohibition of cuts in basic supplies for those who cannot afford them.

The electricity bill is expected to include a reduction in the excise duty on electricity paid by consumers, after the third Vice-President and Minister for the Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, said it was one of the measures to curb the impact of the war in Ukraine.

It has also indicated that consideration is being given to the 'best measure' to mitigate the rise in fuel prices because the EUR 0.20 bonus did not have the desired effect when it was applied four years ago.