Sánchez will demand accountability from the power companies for the blackout: "It can't happen again."

Madrid24 hours after the blackout and with the electricity supply fully restored, the causes remain unknown. The necessary reforms will be made to ensure this does not happen again, and we will demand all relevant accountability from private operators if they must be settled," he stressed. The Spanish government has created a commission led by the Ministry of Energy Transition to analyze the massive drop in electricity prices, and there will also be a further report from the Commission," Sánchez made clear, noting that he is still unable to provide conclusive answers to the public. "We are also asking ourselves the same questions you are asking," noted the head of the State's executive, who has already advanced that this crisis will serve to "strengthen the electricity system" for the future. The Spanish president has also made two statements aimed at placing responsibility outside the Spanish government and avoiding giving the opposition arguments: on the one hand, the insinuation that the blame lies with the private operators; and on the other hand, the incident does not exactly encourage those who defend keeping nuclear power alive. The recovery of supply has occurred due to interconnections with Morocco, France, combined gas cycles and hydroelectric plants," he stressed. "Nuclear energy was disconnected, like the rest of today's technologies. With greater nuclear dependence, the recovery would have been slower," the Spanish president added.

The PP is already pointing to Sánchez

The National Security Council met again this afternoon (at 2:00 PM) and will meet again tonight (at 7:00 PM), and further appearances are not ruled out. The Spanish president denied having given explanations late, as criticized by the People's Party (PP). As normality is returning, the People's Party (PP) has been raising its tone against the Spanish government. Alberto Núñez Feijóo criticized the Spanish government's handling of the power outage and denounced that "it is still overrun twenty hours later." In several interviews this Tuesday morning on Telecinco and EsRadio, the PP leader argued that the Spanish government should have declared a national emergency throughout the state from the outset and not waited for requests from the autonomous communities that requested it.

"How is it possible to fragment the national emergency?" Feijóo questioned, arguing that it is difficult to imagine a situation that would have justified it more than the one experienced yesterday, Monday. "The regional presidents did not have real and timely information on how many people were trapped on trains," the PP leader insisted, denouncing that, in addition to the electricity sector, there was also an "information blackout" by the Spanish government. Feijóo criticized the fact that the Spanish president had not yet called him, while the leader of the Spanish opposition had spoken with the Portuguese Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro. Sánchez justified his failure to speak with Feijóo because the PP leader was having "communication difficulties" in Valencia, but asserted that the Spanish government had contacted all the autonomous communities. Finally, the call between Sánchez and Feijóo took place this Tuesday afternoon.

Feijóo explained that he is focused on speaking with the regional presidents of the Popular Party to coordinate the response given the lack of guidelines from the Spanish government. The PP leader commented that on Monday at around 9 p.m., he had a video call with his supporters. men with government responsibilities and who informed her that they had no means of coordination with Sánchez's executive. In this regard, Isabel Díaz Ayuso denounced that the Spanish government acted "slowly and ineffectively" and presented a "lamentable" image of Spain. The Madrid president was one of the first to request the declaration of a national emergency. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska countered that he is working closely with the autonomous communities, especially the eight that requested the declaration of a national emergency. Galicia, Murcia, and Castilla-La Mancha have already taken the reverse step and requested to regain control.