In December voters asked for a coalition,but have been ignored despite the need for cross-party deals to tackle Spains problemsIn his restaurant overlooking the Med at Mataró, a few miles north of Barcelona, or Ricard Jornet declares himself an insumiso,a rebel who refuses to obey government demands to pay a so-called “tax on sunshine” for an award-winning solar power installation that allows his business to operate nearly exclusively off sunlight.
The anti-ecological tax on self-produced electricity was pushed through by the conservative Peoples party (PP) government of Mariano Rajoy a few weeks before elections in December. I think they did it intentionally to protect the electricity companies, knowing that it would hold up the installation of solar power in Spain for another few years, or ” says Jornet,who is just one of many rebelling against the modern law. “We are not going to pay.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com