The PP promises to "mobilize" 20,000 million a year in infrastructure with "priority" for railway maintenance

After the accident in Urda and the resignation of Minister Óscar Puente, promises about infrastructure have become the highlight of the PP's electoral program. The campaign has turned from the emotional to the management and that is the flank on which Alberto Núñez Feijóo feels most comfortable. And in which he has the most credibility, according to his own team. That is why investment measures in maintenance, security and improvement of infrastructure - above all, railways and, especially, high speed - occupy a central place in the document with which the popular ones launch themselves to conquer La Moncloa.

EL MUNDO has agreed to the program's star measures, which revolve around the idea that "the maintenance and security of infrastructure will have priority in the Budgets." To do this, the PP promises to "implement the largest infrastructure plan in decades." «We will mobilize, together with the private sector, more than 300,000 million in the next 15 years to promote highways and road networks, High Speed ​​and Commuter Railways and hydraulic and energy infrastructures through a National Infrastructure Plan: more than 300,000 million» in 15 years.

That is, an average of 20,000 million a year, 25% more than now. Total public investment in infrastructure in Spain reached 16,114 million euros in 2025, according to data from the Valencian Institute of Economic Research.

But "what matters is not what you invest but what you invest it in," say sources from Genoa. And this is what the program specifies: "We will give priority to the maintenance of infrastructure that must unite people and territories with safety, quality and punctuality." And another proposal insists: «We will invest especially in the railway network and improve service to travelers. “We will analyze the more than 1,000 temporary speed limitations and quantify the investments necessary to address them, establishing priorities in the short and medium term.”

In addition, the PP promises to approve "an urgent care plan for passengers when a train is stopped during the journey." The latter seeks to eliminate inefficiencies in cases of breakdowns, accidents or excessive delays. And after the images of unattended passengers have multiplied, sometimes in the middle of nowhere.

«The quality of life of citizens depends directly on the quality of our infrastructure. "They are key to the structuring of the territory, to social relations and to economic competitiveness," says the PP program, which undertakes to "evaluate" the efficiency of all investments, as well as "their contribution to territorial structuring." "In addition, we will correct the inefficiencies generated by the continued abandonment of recent years, we will audit its operation and we will resolve urgent needs as quickly as possible."

This infrastructure plan will be the axis of the new General State Budgets. Feijóo has committed this week to approving two in 2027: those for the current year and those for 2028. The electoral program contains two other sections in that sense. The first: «In a hundred days, the Spanish will know everything. We will carry out an audit of all the spending that has been made in these years and the functioning of the Administration, the agencies and the State companies. We will explain what each euro has been spent on (...) We will review the aid, public contracts and subsidies awarded: the fraudulent ones will be reported and those that are not meeting their objective will be corrected or eliminated.

The second: "Two budget extensions will force elections to be called," since they will imply the immediate dissolution of the Cortes.