The government's response to the blackout: a new building for the 112 emergency line and 48-hour autonomy for essential services.

BarcelonaThe president of the Generalitat (Catalan regional government), Salvador Illa, will appear before the Catalan Parliament this Tuesday to explain the government's response to the massive blackout that left the entire Iberian Peninsula without electricity. And he will do so with a handful of announcements under his belt. As Catalunya Ràdio has reported and ARA has confirmed, the president will announce a new building for the 112 emergency line to coordinate emergency management, in addition to several measures to ensure essential services have a 48-hour backup if the power goes out. The government also wants to strengthen the RESCAT network, the Catalan government's public communications network for its security and emergency services. All this, while there is still no official explanation as to what caused the power outage.

This Tuesday, Illa will appear at his own request before the Catalan parliament starting at 3:00 p.m. Vox and the CUP (Cup) had also jointly requested his appearance. Carles Puigdemont's party has gone a step further and has also demanded that The Minister of the Presidency, Albert Dalmau, will report to Parliament. of the "poor communication management" of the Catalan government during the incident, according to the regional council members. Among other criticisms, he accuses the government of taking three hours to provide an explanation, and Isla not doing so until eight hours later, after the first intervention by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. The head of the central government will also appear before Congress this Wednesday.

In recent days, the Catalan government called for the debate on the future of renewable energy to be separated from this incident, and the regional minister for land use, Silvia Paneque, stated that attacks on this electricity source have a "political" undertone. The Spanish government continues to study the black boxes provided by the operating companies to advance the investigation, which has two lines of investigation: a working group has been created to analyze the operation of the Spanish electricity system and another on cybersecurity.