Page shows his "respect" for Sánchez's absence at the funeral of the Urda victims, but warns: "Because of my responsibility, I am obliged to attend"

The president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, has shown his "respect" for the decision of the Chief Executive, Pedro Sánchez, not to attend the funeral this Tuesday for the victims of the Urda railway tragedy (Toledo). However, during his participation in an awards ceremony in Badajoz, he confirmed that he will be present at the religious ceremony with an implicit reproach between the lines. "Because of my responsibility, I am obliged to go, it is a question that I have not even considered, whether I should do it or not," he stated.

Previously, asked by the media about whether the Government should have been represented at the highest level in the tribute to the 69 who died in the train crash on October 28, the socialist baron less aligned with the current Ferraz leadership has said that he does not enter "that debate." To which, he then added: "In this tragedy there are only victims who are the human victims of the tragedy, there are no political victims no matter how much some want to put it that way."

As Page has specified, in any case, the representation of the country will not be held by the first vice president, Carlos Body, nor by him as leader of the region in which the two trains collided nor by any of the four ministers who will also attend -Margarita Robles, Milagros Tolón, Isabel Rodríguez and Mónica García-, but by the Kings.

In an interview on Monday night La Séptima, Sánchez excused his absence at the funeral by saying that he has "never" gone to religious services, which he said he respected "deeply." Asked if he would participate in a secular tribute, he said: "Of course, there would be more to do."