The Popular Party announced this Sunday that it will appear in the cause of the train accident in Urda (Toledo), which left 69 dead and more than 200 injured, so that the causes of the accident can be clarified. “We want it to be investigated to the end, for the whole truth to be known and for no one to evade their corresponding responsibilities,” said the party's deputy secretary of Sectoral Coordination, Alma Ezcurra.
The PP thus joins Vox, which was the first party to announce that it was appearing as a popular accusation in the summary opened for the Urda train accident. Ezcurra, in a video distributed to the media, has assured 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.
The Popular Party, after three days maintaining a moderate and institutional tone out of respect for the victims - Vox was the only party that maintained its pre-campaign actions -, begin to move in the judicial field to settle responsibilities for the tragic train accident in Urda. If the leader of the party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, already raised his tone on Friday by calling for the resignation of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, the party has gone one step further today by announcing that they will appear in the case investigating the accident.
Ezcurra, who in addition to being Deputy Secretary of Sectoral Coordination is fourth on the PP's Madrid list, has stated that "what happened in Urda on October 28 cannot be explained simply as an accident," and has attributed what happened to "years of mismanagement, unheeded warnings and wrong decisions that the Government and the Ministry of Transport are going to have to explain."
The deputy secretary of the PP 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 are going to 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.
Likewise, Ezcarra has referred to the words of the President of the Government, when he stated on Wednesday that two tragedies like that of Adamuz and Urda are “unaffordable”, and has stated that “he is completely right”, but that it is incomprehensible that no one has assumed responsibility. “The question is, why, in the face of the unaffordable, does no one assume a single responsibility? "What has to happen in Spain for this government to understand that its indolence has consequences?" he expressed.
Spain, he pointed out, deserves a president "who is weighed more by the pain of his country than by the fear of losing an election", and he added that we need a government where experts rule, "not party colleagues", and in which management, rigor and experience are put above all else. Feijóo has committed himself in recent days to recovering “confidence” in rail transport in the face of the Sánchez Government’s “abandonment” of “the culture of safety.”
“We have to return seriousness to public life now. Enough of the spectacle, enough of the incompetence. Today it is time to remember the dead and also commit ourselves to the living,” he stated.
