Around 7,000 people demonstrated this Saturday, according to data from the Civil Guard, between shouts of “it will not close” and banners as “engine of life and progress” demanding the continuity of this plant. Called by the Platform ‘Yes to Almaraz, Yes to the Future’, the day of demands started at 10:00 a.m. in the town’s Town Hall square, where around 2,500 people were counted, among whom were the president. of the Junta de Extremadura, María Guardiola among other politicians from the PP and Vox.
The demonstration started from the Almaraz Town Hall square, where María Guardiola described as “historic” this day of “vindication” and “dignity of the Extremaduran and Spanish people”, highlighting the participation of authorities, associations and the civil population “above of colors” to “try to stop” a closure that he has called “nonsense.” “We start with Extremadura, but this is not a country issue, it is a State policy and we are putting Spain’s energy sovereignty at risk,” Guardiola warned.
Likewise, Guardiola has asserted that the Extremadura Regional Government will “go to the end” and do “everything necessary to avoid closure” because, he stressed, they are
For his part, he expressed his respect for the demonstration in Extremadura against the closure of the Almaraz nuclear power plant, although he clarified that “the Government does not close”, but that they are “business decisions” and that “it is not a technical issue, but an economic one.” ”, according to statements collected by the Servimedia agency. “The PP, which governs in Extremadura with the support of VOX in its investiture, is actively participating in propagating the idea that the Executive is responsible,” Ecological Transition disapproves. In his opinion, Spanish electricity companies do not want to prolong the life of their nuclear plants because it would require them to invest a lot in the facilities to comply with the safety standards approved by the EU after the Fukushima disaster and they obtain more profitability by investing in renewables.
During the rally, the mayor of Almaraz, Juan Antonio Díaz, described the town’s power plant as the “most necessary industry in Extremadura”, while insisting that not a single minute can be “wasted in defending its continuity.” ” if you want to avoid job loss and increased depopulation.
“Today the fight begins, and I ask the Government of the nation to rectify it, because it is brave to recognize mistakes,” Díaz said about this plant that, as explained by the president of the Works Committee, Borja Romero, generates “the 7 percent of the energy produced in Spain.”
Taking this percentage and remembering that the plant produces “the equivalent of the electricity consumption of four million homes”, the spokesperson for the PP of Extremadura, José Ángel Sánchez Juliá, has expressed his wishes that the demands of this day of protest “will resonate tomorrow ” at the 15th Regional Congress of the PSOE in which the President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, will be present.
