Sánchez expresses Puente's resignation as an electoral battering ram against the PP and Vox: "They never practice their example of dignity in the face of any tragedy"

Instead of the dances with which Pedro Sánchez was enlivening the pre-campaign events until the accident in Urda occurred, the one he performed this Friday at the sports center in the Valencian neighborhood of Cabañal began with a heartfelt minute of silence and the attendees - 5,000 people, including those who managed to get in and those who were left out, standing for the 69 victims of the Urda tragedy (Toledo). Before the speeches at an event with which the pre-campaign has resumed after the break due to the accident, a duo has also performed the song Si tú no estars by Rosana live.

After the sobriety of the staging, the socialist leader did not take long to bring up the resignation of who until Tuesday was his Minister of Transport, using it as an electoral battering ram against his rivals on the right. "We have assumed responsibility with the resignation of a great politician like Óscar Puente," he proclaimed to the applause of the audience accompanied by some shouts of "let him come back." "PP and Vox have criticized him for not resigning. It is an example of dignity that they never practice in the face of any crisis or tragedy," he added.

At the entrance of the President of the Government, the chorus of the song Llavors de La Fúmiga, "com no te vaig a estimar" (how can I not love you), played on a loop while people shouted "Pedro, Pedro, Pedro!"

During her intervention, the general secretary of the Valencian socialists, Diana Morant, said that in "difficult" moments such as that of the Urda tragedy (Toledo), in which it is difficult to "explain feelings with words", the Sánchez Government has responded "with effectiveness, truth and dignity", personifying the latter in Puente. "Thank you, Óscar, for dignity in moments when dignity and empathy with pain are needed," he stressed while the audience stood up and chanted "Óscar, Óscar, Óscar."

In addition, the Minister of Science and Universities also thanked Sánchez for the "pride" of his performance in the Valencia dana two years ago that claimed the lives of 232 people, pointing out that it represents "what it means to be in good times and bad, on the first day and until the end, offering solutions." In this regard, he has pointed out that Ventorro has become "a political category", alluding to the name of the restaurant where the then president of the Generalitat spent the first hours of that storm of October 29, 2024.

"In the Ventorro there was not only the one who was in the bar, there was everyone else. While the people were drowning, there was no one working. They are all those who have been lying, applauding [Carlos] Mazón, those who keep him capped so that he does not submit to justice. We will arrive and finally make him submit to Justice," Morán added. And he stressed that there were "six gentlemen" who sat down at a table in 2023, "an abuser, a bullfighter, Mazón and his now successor, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, and that in 10 minutes they signed "a denialist pact of shame" that "is the origin of all evil."

For her part, the head of the list for Valencia, the former Government delegate Pilar Bernabé, has avoided referring directly to the resignation of Óscar Puente. However, he has used the PP's actions during the 2024 dana - which left 234 fatalities - to take advantage of the actions of the socialists. "We are not equal," he stated, marking differences between the management of one tragedy and another.

Puente, who until his resignation had been a prolific tweeter, said goodbye to social networks on Tuesday with a cartoon by Forges in which a large man with a mustache says "all politicians are the same" to another smaller man, who answers: "That's what you would like." Since then, he has only retweeted a message from Pilar Bernabé in tribute to the victims of the dana in Paiporta, the one that highlighted that the walkway was rebuilt by the Ministry of Transport and thanked the person who until now had been its owner.