The PP will appear in the case of the Urda accident and demands that the Government assume responsibilities

The Popular Party has reported this Sunday that it is going to appear in the cause of the train accident in Urda (Toledo), which has left 69 dead and dozens injured, so that it is investigated "to the end" and no responsibility is evaded.

"We want it to be investigated until the end, for the whole truth to be known and for no one to evade the responsibilities that correspond to them," stated, in a video distributed to the media, the party's Deputy Secretary of Sectoral Coordination, Alma Ezcurra.

Ezcurra has stated that the PP owes it to the victims, their loved ones and all Spaniards who at this moment feel insecurity and helplessness in the face of the Government.

In his opinion, what happened in Urda last Wednesday, October 28, cannot be explained simply as an accident because behind it there are "years of mismanagement, unheeded warnings and wrong decisions."

For this reason, he said, the Government of Pedro Sánchez and the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, are going to have to give explanations about what happened.

Ezcurra recalled that in just ten months more than a hundred people have died in Adamuz (Córdoba) and Urda, among them the former popular minister Fátima Báñez, "a wonderful woman, an effective public servant and a generous and close companion."

The deputy secretary of the party led by presidential candidate Alberto Núñez Feijóo has criticized that the Government has not even respected mourning since with the families, still looking for their loved ones, they leaked the workers' conversations to the media, including the last words of a train driver who died while trying to stop the train.

"I believe that before looking for culprits among the workers, they will have to explain what went wrong because the safety systems are precisely there to prevent any human error from ending in a tragedy," he added.

The popular deputy secretary has referred to the words of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, when he stated that two such tragedies are "unaffordable", and has stated that "he is absolutely right" but that it is incomprehensible that no one has assumed responsibility.

Spain, he pointed out, deserves a president who is more burdened by the pain of his country than by the fear of losing an election, and a Government is needed where experts rule, "not party colleagues", and in which management, rigor and experience are put above all else.

"We have to return seriousness to public life. Enough of spectacles, enough of incompetence. Today it is time to remember the dead and also commit ourselves to the living," he stated.