Forced resignation

Óscar Puente has been wrong too many times, but – amidst so many useless excuses and untimely challenges – yesterday he was right to assume a great truth: "A minister cannot continue in his position with two accidents of this severity."

He should have reached that conclusion on the same day of the fatal accident in Urda, before directing the focus on an Adif worker. He did not do it, but in the end he has taken the step that all of society demanded.

It would seem that his mark was going to be that of the polarizing minister, but – unfortunately for everyone – he is going to go down in history for leading the most tragic period of the railway in Spain.