Sánchez acknowledges that he was "surprised" when Puente informed him of his resignation via WhatsApp, but avoids questioning it: "He did the right thing"

The President of the Government has acknowledged that he was "obviously surprised" when Óscar Puente informed him by WhatsApp that he was going to resign just before making it public in a speech in Congress, but he has avoided entering into controversies with his former Minister of Transport after having asked him to remain in his position despite the two railway tragedies that have occurred in Spain in nine months with a balance of 115 fatalities. "He did the right thing," Pedro Sánchez concluded in an interview this Monday in La Séptima.

Furthermore, in a good part of his answers he has taken pains to highlight Carlos Corpo, who has precisely replaced Puente at the head of the Ministry of Transport, asking if citizens would like to have a vice president like him or one like Santiago Abascal, assuming that it is the position that the Vox leader would occupy if he governed in coalition with the PP after the 29-N elections.

Sánchez's interview took place on a new network promoted by José Miguel Contreras, a businessman and audiovisual producer whose career has been connected to media and projects close to the Spanish political left. When it premiered last Thursday, La Séptima had a 2.8% audience share and 4,990,000 unique viewers, exceeding all expectations.

Since the early call of the general elections for 29-N, the President of the Government had gone to La Revuelta, on RTVE, granted an interview to El País and participated in the youth podcast Keep it shabby, which was being broadcast just the morning that the train tragedy in Urda (Toledo) took place. For this reason, the president suspended his participation in the program Salvados de La Sexta, scheduled for the Sunday after the accident, and which is scheduled to resume this week.