First electoral debate in the campaign: PSOE and Frente Amplio promise investment in the train, compared to PP and Vox who ask to audit the network

The PSOE and Frente Amplio have promised more investment in trains to regain confidence in the railway system after the tragedies of Adamuz (Córdoba) and Urda (Toledo) against PP and Vox, which have criticized the management of the Government's infrastructure and have requested a complete audit of the state of the network.

These are the main positions on infrastructure that the first vice president and Minister of Economy, Carlos Body (PSOE), left this Friday in a four-way economic debate in La Sexta; the Minister of Social Rights and Consumption, Pablo Bustinduy (Frente Amplio); the Deputy Secretary of Finance of the PP, Juan Bravo; and the economic spokesperson for Vox, José María Figaredo.

The first to intervene was Carlos Corpus, who began by leaving a memory to the victims of Adamuz and Urda and took the opportunity to announce a technical commission to create a 'White Paper' of recommendations for the railway system, as a seed to try to reach a State Pact for infrastructure.

In his speech, Corpus, who has assumed the Transport portfolio after the resignation of Óscar Puente, said that the main task ahead in this area is to "regain trust" in the trains, which he admits has been broken after the two serious accidents that have left more than a hundred dead.

Thus, it has committed to carrying out all the necessary actions so that similar episodes do not happen again and to reinforce the safety of the train as much as necessary, in accordance with the instructions of the Railway Safety Agency and especially the drivers.

Bustinduy asks for more money for the Cercanías

For his part, Bustinduy has also asked for his intervention with a memorial to the victims and has also emphasized the need to invest in the railway system to regain confidence in the system.

Of course, he has proposed that the 13,000 million euros that, according to his calculations, are going to be allocated to airport expansions, be allocated, in addition to maintenance, to the Cercanías train. He has also criticized the impact that the liberalization of high speed has had on the network.

"It cannot be that with everyone's public resources, these infrastructures are made available to foreign companies that come to do business with them. The railway has to be a public service," he stressed.

The PP criticizes the Government's management

Regarding the PP, Juan Bravo has focused his intervention on criticizing the Government's management in this area. "The lack of management has led us to the fact that the AVE, which was a reference, a brand for Spain, has become a fear for all Spaniards," he said.

The 'popular' leader has linked this mismanagement to the lack of General State Budgets in every legislature, and recalled that former Minister Puente, when he resigned, said that the lack of public accounts "prevented him from investing more."

He has also criticized that the Sustainable Mobility Law, which was published in the Official State Gazette in December 2025, already included the obligation to carry out an audit of the state of the roads which, as he said, has not yet been done.

Finally, Bravo has promised an investment of 300,000 million euros in fifteen years if the PP comes to govern. Corps has begun to debate this argument, alleging that in previous PP governments the first thing they cut was infrastructure.

Vox: "Government corruption kills"

On the Vox side, Figaredo has been the only one who has not begun with a memory of the victims and has begun his turn by criticizing the Government's management, while pointing out that investment has fallen "significantly" to "dangerous" levels and has added: "The corruption of this Government kills", in reference to the former Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos.