The deputy secretary of Autonomous, Local Coordination and Electoral Analysis of the PP, Elías Bendodo, has accused this Saturday the PSOE of placing itself "against Málaga" for voting "against" the initiatives that the Popular Party has taken to the Congress of Deputies in order to propose "provisional solutions" to the current transport situation in the province.
The also national deputy of the PP made these statements to the media during a visit to the Archidona Dog Fair (Málaga), where he highlighted that the week ending has been "very intense" around this issue. He recalled that he himself has had "the opportunity to present a motion in the Plenary Session of the Congress of Deputies" and to ask a question to the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, "to continue defending the arrival of the AVE as soon as possible to Málaga".
Bendodo has stressed that the AVE service between Madrid and Malaga has already accumulated "more than three months of cancellation", and has insisted that from the PP they have "criticized the Government for its negligence and its neglect", because they consider it their "obligation", but, at the same time, they define themselves as a "propositive party" that has put "alternative and provisional solutions" on the table. Among them, he cited the creation of "a provisional fixed-price air bridge between Malaga and Madrid", as well as that "the toll of Las Pedrizas on the Costa del Sol be eliminated or subsidized" while this situation lasts.
In this context, Bendodo has regretted that the PSOE of Malaga "has voted against these measures", which in his opinion are "reasonable things". He added that he wants "everyone to know" that "if the toll remains expensive it is because the Socialist Party has voted against its reduction or elimination", and that "if we do not have a fixed-price air bridge between Malaga and Madrid while the AVE works last it is because the Socialist Party has also voted against it".
The PP leader has insisted that the socialists will have to "explain in the campaign" for the Andalusian elections on May 17 these decisions, and has denounced that "we have a Socialist Party of Andalusia that is against Malaga".
To conclude, the 'popular' deputy secretary has warned that from the PP of Malaga they are going to "continue demanding all those initiatives, that the works as soon as possible" to restore the AVE to Malaga "are finished, but in the meantime" "provisional solutions" are enabled, he has settled.