Feijóo directly blames the Government for the accident: "At least 69 people have died because it did not renew an obsolete security system"

46 people have died due to poor maintenance by the Government in Adamuz and at least 69 in Toledo because the Government did not renew an obsolete security system when it should have done so. Alberto Núñez Feijóo holds Pedro Sánchez's Executive directly responsible for the victims of the Urda accident.

This Government has forgotten about the safety culture, he maintained in a speech after meeting with 15 railway experts at the PP headquarters. And the same people who were in charge before the accident in Córdoba continue in their positions after the accident in Toledo, he lamented, in reference to Óscar Puente.

The main opposition party believes that Puente should be dismissed as Minister of Transport, although it considers him amortized and points higher, to Sánchez: Whoever has failed in his duty to manage the Ministry of Transport seriously has to bear it. Now, whoever has appointed him and has maintained him, with even more reason. And he added: If they do not resign, we will resign them at the polls.

In other words, the minister is a fuse and the president is interested in maintaining that fuse so that electricity does not reach him. A president, he recalled, who has not even called the leader of the opposition to inform him in real time. In Spain there is no room for ministers like Óscar Puente or presidents like Pedro Sánchez, he has stressed.

Asked about the reaction to the Vox accident, which has not suspended its campaign and speaks of Óscar Muerte, Feijóo has assured that each party is responsible for its actions and he is responsible only for his own, which he wants to include on a more institutional level than that of Santiago Abascal.

Faced with the chaos that, in his opinion, now prevails in the railway system, Feijóo wanted to offer Spaniards the assurance that everything necessary will be done to regain lost trust, with a reliable and safe train again.

To do this, he has put on the table four major commitments that he will carry out if he governs. The first is to remove propaganda from the Security area and let in rigorous management. Its specific commitment is to strengthen the Security department of Renfe and Adif.

Feijóo has also promised a technical review of the network and a complete audit of railway management and spending if he reaches La Moncloa. That is, a total reset that allows people the security that they can get on a train without fear.

After this audit, the PP would execute an emergency plan that must have full priority over any other activity in the Ministry of Transportation. And I would give budgetary priority to security, conservation and maintenance. Something, the latter, that his party already insisted on a lot in the 2023 electoral program.

The problem is one of management, it has been continuously poorly managed and the Government has abandoned the safety culture, Feijóo summarized during his speech. Restoring trust will be difficult, very difficult, he has acknowledged, and it will not be recovered if what has gone wrong and what needs to be corrected is not identified. That is why he promises to do better than Sánchez's Executive: The answer is management, management, management.

For the popular election candidate, the affected families need answers and some certainty within this chaos. People are right, he stated, because what happened in Urda cannot be seen as an isolated event or as an inevitable fatality, but as a concatenation of errors.

In a context like this, the solution is not to cover your eyes and point out a single person when there are chain failures. That is immoral, it has been settled.