
The leader of Más Madrid demands political responsibilities after the incident that left 69 dead in Toledo.
Emilio Delgado, head of the Frente Amplio list for Madrid, has requested the resignation of Minister Óscar Puente after the train accident in Urda, Toledo, which left 69 dead, linking the crisis to the current management and previous cuts of the PP.
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The accident in Urda adds to the one that occurred in Adamuz in January, accumulating a total of fatalities in the railway system in a period of nine months.
The head of the Frente Amplio list for Madrid for 29-N, Emilio Delgado, has reiterated the request for the resignation of the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, one day after the number one of the electoral coalition, Ada Colau, did so after the train accident in Urda (Toledo), with 69 people dead so far.
In statements to the media in Barcelona, the leader of Más Madrid has described as "absolutely unacceptable" that there have been two accidents like the one this Wednesday and the one in Adamuz (Córdoba), at the end of last January, with 46 deaths, in just nine months.
Accompanied by candidates number 3 and 4 on the Comuns-Front Ampli list for Barcelona, Júlia Miralles and Andrés García Berrio, Delgado insisted that "it is time for political responsibilities to be assumed" and, in a second phase, "to address a very serious debate on the Spanish railway network."
But, at the same time, the deputy spokesperson of the regional party in the Madrid Assembly has reduced a march in criticism of the coalition Government of which Más Madrid is a part within Sumar and has extended those responsibilities to the stage of the PP in the central Executive: "Neither those from the dana nor those from the nursing homes are going to come to give management lessons."
"We are dragging along the cuts from the Popular Party era, the prolonged disinvestment in the railway system and the consequences of poorly done liberalization that has added pressure to both infrastructure and human resources," denounced the number one of the Frente Amplio for Madrid.

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