Adif denies that it has approved a "bonus" for the company's management leadership

The public railway manager Adif has denied this Sunday that the company protected the collection of a "bonus" by the top management before the resignation of its president Luis Pedro Marco de la Peña and has assured that it is "biased and incomplete information."

He did so in a statement released this Sunday after the publication of this information in several media outlets and after the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, asked during a rally in Malaga that the directors of Adif return the bonuses they have collected.

According to Adif and Adif Alta Velocity (AV), "after months of administrative processing", on November 4, the Boards of Directors of these companies approved their financing agreements with the State for the period 2026-2030, which contemplate "about 19,000 million euros", intended mainly to reinforce the conservation and maintenance of the railway network.

They did so in meetings that had been called on October 30, in accordance with the Adif statutes.

The public railway manager highlights that these agreements, regulated by article 25 of the Railway Sector Law and with the legal parameters that allow the State's contributions to be set, in addition to financing, include business objectives whose degree of compliance influences the variable remuneration of a part of the workforce.

"Of the total workforce of Adif and Adif AV, almost 14,000 public employees, a good part is governed by a system of objectives that affects their annual remuneration," says the company, which highlights that "approximately 5,216 people" in these companies receive this variable.

Specifically, "senior management, the management structure, the support structure, as well as the group of middle managers and staff," says the statement, which highlights that "this system is not new", it has been applied since 2012 and was already included in the financing agreements for the period 2021-2025.