Feijóo blames Sánchez for ignoring warnings about railway safety and sentences Puente: "He is worse than Ábalos"

Alberto Núñez Feijóo believes that Óscar Puente should resign because he is "the worst minister" of the Pedro Sánchez governments and the worst Minister of Transport. "Worse than Ábalos," the president of the PP pointed out this Tuesday in an interview on Al Rojo Vivo, on laSexta.

Feijóo has emphasized the improvement of public management and has assured that Adif's problem is poor performance by those who direct infrastructure policy. In this sense, he has highlighted two pieces of information: the first, that incidents that are considered "accident precursors" have increased by 90% on the AVE and 30% on the conventional network. And the Government "has done nothing."

The second, that derailments have skyrocketed by 212% since 2018. "Since Sánchez governs." So the "responsibility" lies not only with Minister Puente, but also with the President of the Government, for ignoring those warnings prior to the train accident in Urda (Toledo) last Wednesday.

The president of the PP did not want to clarify whether or not he would stop the AVE service from Madrid to Barcelona, ​​if he governs, since this would depend on a prior technical review: "I will do what the express audit that we do indicates." Of course, he does not rule it out: "Above the billing of the operators or Adif's business is the security of the Spanish people and my pulse will not tremble and I will not have any doubts."

The first economic measure that Feijóo will promote to improve public services will be to skyrocket spending on "maintenance" of railways and roads to "restore the quality of public services."

And he is going to continue taking the AVE? "If I don't have another means of communication, I would get back on the Ave in my country, out of responsibility," he said, and because he doesn't want to send the message that the entire train system is "unsafe."

After showing his pain at the death of his party colleague Fátima Báñez, former Minister of Employment in the Government of Mariano Rajoy, Feijóo has assured that one of the things that has surprised him most since the accident last Wednesday is that "the PP has not received the condolences of the President of the Government or the Minister of Transport." "What less, right?" said the PP candidate, before pointing out that he has received messages of condolence from "two members of the Government" (one from the PSOE and the other from Sumar).

Feijóo has also assured that he will not change the law on gender violence or the law on abortion, although he will establish the "prior knowledge" of parents for the voluntary interruption of pregnancy of women aged 16 and 17.