The president of the Popular Party and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has criticized Pedro Sánchez, whom he has urged to look less at Brazil and the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and more at the trains, at a "collapsed" country and to stop "taking the Spaniards as idiots" with their "tricks and nonsense."
Feijóo has participated in a rally at the Carranque pavilion in Malaga, where he has been supported by the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, and the secretary of, Elías Bendodo, general coordinator of the PP.
The leader of the popular party has criticized "the frivolity" of "the kisses, the dances and the macabre jokes" in the PSOE campaign "while Spain suffers." On the contrary, Feijóo showed himself as "a manager" whose speech is his "30 years" of public service. "That's what I'm going to dedicate myself to, we leave the rest for leisure hours," he said.
"Can't you stop taking people for idiots? Less looking outside and more dealing with Spain's problems. Less looking at Brazil and more looking at how we fill the refrigerator with basic foods. Less looking at Trump and more looking at the trains, that this country is collapsed, that it doesn't work. Enough of the tricks and nonsense! We are here to govern!" Núñez Feijóo exclaimed.
Regarding the situation of the train, Feijóo has assured that if it arrives at Moncloa after November 29, he will review rail transport "inch by inch" so that "security returns" and "he will not put haste above safety."
Feijóo has said that if he becomes President of the Government, he will use "the money of the Spanish people to check every sleeper, every kilometer of catenary, every track" so that "there is no fear" of getting back on the train.
"Of course what I will not dedicate it to is paying bonuses to the Adif directors who have caused this railway disaster," said the Galician politician, who has asked the Government to return the bonuses they have collected because they cannot be "rewarded" after the 115 fatalities in the railway accidents, which he has described as "vomitive."
"Let them return it if they have an iota of dignity," insisted Feijóo, who said that "every euro they have must be used for the safety of the Spaniards and to compensate the victims," and added that new deficiencies continued to appear in the same section of the road from the accident to Adamuz and "the Government's response is none."
The until now leader of the opposition has recalled that 32,000 people use "the Andalusian AVE" daily, which requires a "complete audit", although "before recovering the normality of the service, one hundred percent security must be guaranteed" and therefore if he reaches the Government he will not be able to "one date ahead of security".
Feijóo warns that Sánchez wants "this campaign to serve to forget what has happened during these eight years and what has happened in recent weeks" with "music" and "dances", so he asked them to remember the victims, as well as "the immorality" of the Government, when they go to the polls in three weeks.
Furthermore, the leader of the Popular Party has promised what his position will be regarding corruption: "My government will never pardon a politician convicted of corruption," anyone who has "put their hand in the box."
Moreno asks for "a forceful punishment" for Sánchez
For his part, the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, has asked voters to submit to "massive punishment" in the elections "in memory" of the 115 who died in the Urda and Adamuz railway accidents and he did so out of "rage" because both tragedies could have been "avoided."
"I feel a lot of sadness, but I also feel a lot of anger, which I have contained for almost 10 days, because I have an institutional responsibility," said Juanma Moreno in her speech.
"The anger, the feeling, the perception that this accident could have been avoided. There is not 100% security, but there is the technical capacity, the developments so that these accidents would not have occurred, as they have not occurred in other countries that have high speed and that have no deaths," he said.
Moreno recalled the decision of the European Prosecutor's Office to open proceedings to investigate the destination of the European funds that were dedicated to the maintenance of the Madrid-Seville AVE routes and of the National Court to open a separate piece on alleged bribes in contracts for this line.
For this reason, he has asked to act in a "civic" way and "in memory of those 115 people who have lost their lives," "with the most powerful instrument, the one that hurts them the most, which is the calm and correct, but forceful punishment of the vote," he said.
