Puente appears this Tuesday in Congress to give explanations after the Urda train accident

The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, appears this Tuesday in the Permanent Deputation of Congress to report on the train accident in Urda (Toledo), which has left at least 69 people dead. The minister's appearance takes place on the same day that the Council of Ministers, chaired on this occasion by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, approves a package of aid measures for those affected by the accident.

Puente appears at a press conference after the Council of Ministers and, in the afternoon, he will appear around 5:00 p.m. in the Permanent Deputation, the only active body in the Lower House as a consequence of the dissolution of the Cortes that occurred with the early elections.

Six days after the tragedy, Puente will foreseeably hear in parliament the requests for resignation that have been made to him in recent days in public statements from all political groups, with the exception of the PSOE and Bildu, which defend that we must wait for the conclusions of the investigation before demanding political responsibilities. Puente, so far, has refused to resign, arguing that his way of assuming his responsibility is to "show his face", clarify what happened and continue in command.