Alberto Núñez Feijóo resumed the electoral events this Saturday after a week and a half of break to respect the mourning for the 69 fatalities caused by the train accident in Urda (Toledo). The leader of the PP has resumed the pre-campaign with an event in Valladolid, where he has warned the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez that the cases of corruption that are being investigated linked to the Ministry of Transport and Adif may have consequences: "If they have stolen the money for the security of the trains, they will have to leave power to go to jail."
Feijóo referred to the Urda train accident and explained that he received one of the victims this week, who asked to meet with him and conveyed the need to place experts in the "key positions" of the Government to guarantee safety. The leader of the PP has also alluded to the judicial investigations into the Madrid-Seville railway line, which place the PSOE in the spotlight.
Specifically, the European Prosecutor's Office is investigating possible irregularities in the awarding of contracts for the railway infrastructure of the Madrid-Seville line and has requested information from Adif - a public company attached to the Ministry of Transport. In parallel, the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard made a request for information this week from Adif in the framework of the investigation into the Koldo case since there are suspicions of manipulation in the awards of high-speed contracts.
In this sense, with Adif at the center of various investigations and in the spotlight for the state of the infrastructure after two train accidents, Feijóo wanted to send a warning to Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE. “I will ensure that everyone assumes their responsibility,” he stated, in an event in which he was accompanied by Alfonso Fernández Mañueco.
"In 24 hours, we have seen two searches by the Civil Guard, one requested by a Spanish court, the other by the European Prosecutor's Office: two searches at the Adif headquarters. Spain cannot get used to having politicians who steal," said the PP leader. "If the money from the security of the trains has ended up in the Socialist Party or in the pockets of one of their own, it will not be enough for them to leave. They will have to respond to justice and if they have stolen the money intended to protect the lives of the Spanish people, they will have to leave power to go to jail," he added.
"It is not easy to get on stage. It is not easy to raise your voice, to get into campaign mode, it is not. Friends, it is not because we still have in mind what happened last week," said Feijóo, as soon as the rally began in Valladolid, the city of which Óscar Puente was minister. However, he has also clarified that they are not there for that reason: "We did not come here to this city because of what happened on the trains. If it were to point out the person most responsible, we would not be in Valladolid. We would be holding a meeting in front of the Moncloa Palace. It was not necessary to come here."
Feijóo has insisted on holding Sánchez responsible for the Urda accident for “eight years of insecurity” and wanted to talk about opening a new stage in Spain of “hope.” "It is time for politics to talk about the people again. We have spent years of trash politics, of spectacle, from scandal to scandal, from detainee to detainee, from summary to summary. Years looking at Moncloa, at social networks, at the courts. That's enough. It's time to look at the people and here we are to serve the people for the next few years," summarized Feijóo, who has set November 29 as the date to end "the torment."
Feijóo also wanted to put Ceuta's situation back on the front line, where it is urgent to adopt measures so that the city recovers normality; the economy, committing to policies that improve the purchasing power of families and the revaluation of pensions in accordance with the CPI; or, women, because they are the ones who “suffer the most from insecurity and lack of control.”
Furthermore, in Valladolid, a province with a lot of weight in the rural world, Feijóo has wanted to commit to the countryside and will ask for a regulatory moratorium in Europe. “And I am committed to something else: no Spanish law will demand from the countryside more than what Europe already demands,” he said, referring to one of the issues that most dissatisfies the countryside, which is regulation and controls.
