The president of Adif resigns one day after Puente's resignation due to the Urda accident

The president of Adif, Pedro Marco de la Peña, has presented his resignation to the new head of the Ministry of Transport, Carlos Body, one day after his superior, the former minister Óscar Puente, resigned. The Urda train accident last week, only nine months after another equally serious accident, that of Adamuz, had spread the feeling that his continuity as head of the railway infrastructure manager was unsustainable.

As confirmed by internal Adif sources, Marco de la Peña has resigned during the meeting to which he had been called by Corps on Wednesday afternoon and in which the Secretary of State for Transport and until now Puente's number two, José Antonio Santano, has also been present. Subsequently, Adif was scheduled to hold a board of directors this Wednesday.

For days, rumors had been insistent about the resignation of Marco de la Peña, a 53-year-old civil engineer, deputy minister of Infrastructure and Transport of the Basque Country between 2020 and 2024 and appointed by Puente to preside over Adif in September of that year. Finally, he resigned one day after Puente announced his resignation after appearing in the Permanent Deputation of the Congress of Deputies.