Adif has denied that the entity has secured the collection of a "bonus" for the company’s management board and has expressed its "total rejection" of these accusations, which it describes as "biased and incomplete" after various reports disseminated over the weekend.
In this regard, the company denies the alleged payment of what it defines as an "nonexistent bonus" to the "top brass" of the railway manager, a denial that it extends to both Adif and Adif Alta Velocidad, as this Sunday it has indicated in a statement.
Adif’s statement comes after the "dissemination" of this information in "electoral acts" prior to the elections on November 29.
Specifically, the PP’s national deputy secretary, Cuca Gamarra, has launched attacks on the PSOE for what it considers a "lack of empathy" with citizens after the Urda accident, having "dedicated its time to securing the bonus of Adif’s management committee, instead of securing railway safety".
""The bonus is what a company pays its executives when they meet objectives. What was the objective of Adif’s top brass? To destroy high-speed rail, to kill more than 100 Spaniards? Or was it to enrich itself and continue with that predatory party that is choking Spaniards financially, making them pay more than ever in taxes and giving them worse services than ever throughout democracy?", the leader of Vox, this Saturday, criticized, at an event in Guadalajara.
The public company details that the Boards held on November 4 gave the go-ahead to agreements with the Administration to "reinforce the resources allocated to conservation and maintenance, with a total investment for this period of around 19,000 million euros".
These agreements, according to Adif, set the "principles and parameters" to "set the State’s contributions" to Adif and Adif AV, in line with the Railway Sector Law, which likewise determines that "the company’s objectives and their achievement are linked to the salary of part of the workforce".
The entity adds that, since 2012, "approximately 5,216 people" employed receive "variable compensation" linked to the "fulfillment" of "objectives", which reaches "top management, the management structure, the support structure, as well as the group of middle managers and executives".
"It was collected the same way in the financing agreement for the period 2021-2025", the company has underlined, specifying that "in the agenda of the Boards of Directors" mentioned "the single item" was "the approval of the agreements to comply with what is provided for in the Railway Sector Law" and "to guarantee the sustainability of railway infrastructures for the next time period".
The meeting took place a week after the accident in Urda (Toledo), in which 69 people died when a Renfe AVE struck an Iryo that had stopped after a failure in the LZB system.