Sánchez vindicates Puente for his management: “Unfortunately, tragedies happen, but how you respond is not the same”
Pedro Sánchez has vindicated the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, for the Government’s response to the Adamuz railway accident, the third most serious in half a century in Spain with 45 deaths, in a week in which a train driver from the Rodalies service in the province of Barcelona has also lost his life. “We have spent very hard, very heartbreaking days, and my first words are for the victims, for the families, for the neighbors of Adamuz and also of Barcelona. All the love for the victims and families of those tragic accidents and all the pride of those public servants, also of the institutions that have worked in a coordinated, loyal and united manner to respond to this tragedy, as we Spaniards always do, with unity, loyalty, empathy and effectiveness,” the President of the Government began his speech at his rally in Huesca with Pilar Alegría, PSOE candidate in the Aragonese elections on February 8.
“And all my gratitude to the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, because that is the difference between one and the other. Unfortunately, tragedies happen in life, but how we respond to these tragedies is not the same, and this Government has responded by putting the victims at the center of its priorities, with empathy, with effectiveness, with transparency and with unity,” Sánchez stated.
The general secretary of the PSOE has insisted on how the confrontation “deviates from the main objective, which is to respond to the victims and restore” the high-speed service.
Sánchez has also addressed the Catalans due to their discontent over the collapse of Rodalies: “We are working day and night, side by side with the Generalitat of Catalonia, to restore a decent and safe commuter service, which is what the citizens of Catalonia, as well as the rest of Spain, deserve.”
