The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, stated this Wednesday that the Government will end up attributing the railway accident in Toledo to "a scapegoat" or "fall guy" and urged not to believe "absolutely anything it says" the Executive before the general elections on November 29.
At a pre-campaign rally in Valladolid, which began with the anthem 'La muerte no es el final' in memory of the nearly 70 people who died in the railway disaster, Abascal emphasized that the Government "has rushed a lot in looking for a scapegoat, a fall guy" on whom to place responsibility for the event, in reference to the first version that pointed to human error. "Later we have seen that no, that it was a system failure," he noted.
The Vox leader warned, in any case, that the origin of the tragedy "will not be known soon," which is why he reiterated his call not to "believe absolutely anything it says" the Executive before the electoral date. "This is the Government of lies, ruin and betrayal," he said.
Abascal also defended his decision to keep his schedule and the pre-campaign events, unlike the Government and the rest of the parties, which have canceled them. In his opinion, the official mourning for the victims of the accident seeks to "gag" Vox, while his party "has the duty" to continue campaigning and denounce the "destruction" of infrastructure, institutions and public services in Spain.
"We are here to express our commitment to defending Spaniards from a criminal organization and that is why we are not willing to suspend the electoral pre-campaign," he stated, before referring to the "anger" and "weariness" that the Government of Pedro Sánchez causes him.
"Vox does not cancel its schedule because it is not out partying, it is working (...) as engineers work, as bakers work, as people who have to open a business work: everyone keeps working," he stressed. In this context, he urged Sánchez to cancel his pre-campaign "little dances" and suggested to the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, that he close his profile on X.
Criticisms over corruption and the use of taxes
Abascal also lashed out against the corruption cases that are implicating the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos, currently in prison. "A criminal gang that has decided that the money of the Spanish people could be spent on call girls instead of fixing the train tracks, as happened in Adamuz", he denounced, insisting that "corruption kills".
In this context, he questioned "where the taxes of the Spanish people are going". As he noted, "1.500 million of those taxes of the Spanish people are going to pay in Morocco, in Uzbekistan and in Cairo for the railway structures and the metro of their places".
The event in Valladolid has been brief and only Abascal has spoken. At the end of the rally, the Vox leader, accompanied by the vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Carlos Pollán, and by the leading candidate for Congress for Valladolid, Pablo Sáez, among other leaders, went to the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de Valladolid to join the minute of silence called by the Federación Española de Municipios y Provincias (FEMP) in memory of the victims of the railway accident.