The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has directly held responsible the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, for the situation generated after the resignation of the minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, and has demanded that he follow the same path to "make himself available to the courts." According to Abascal, the socialist leader "hides behind his henchmen" and refuses to assume his own political responsibilities.
This Tuesday, Puente announced in the Permanent Deputation his resignation as minister of Transport and as the head of the list for the Congress for Valladolid, a decision which, as he explained, he adopted after the rail tragedy of Urda (Toledo), in which at least 69 people lost their lives.
In a message published on the social network X and collected by Europa Press, Abascal has been citing different names from the socialist circle: "Ábalos, Koldo, the attorney general, Cerdán, the Government delegates of Ceuta and Madrid, Zapatero, Paco Salazar, Montse Mínguez, his wife and his brother—and now Oscar Puente!" to conclude that Sánchez "hides behind his henchmen" despite the fact that "responsibility is his."
The Vox leader has reiterated that the president of the Government "is the boss of the mafia" and the "brain of the criminal organization that governs us": "His betrayal kills." In his view, the succession of resignations and scandals confirms that the top person in charge is Sánchez.
In this context, Abascal has called on the Spanish people to put together a "massive response" at the ballot box with the aim of "putting him in the dock" and, in this way, recovering "hope and national dignity." He believes that only through an electoral turnaround will it be possible to purge the responsibility that, according to him, reaches even the president himself.
Meanwhile, Vox spokesperson in Congress, Pepa Rodríguez de Millán, has stressed that Puente's resignation occurs "two deadly sinister events and 116 lives later," focusing on the time that has passed and on the victims of the rail accidents before the resignation took place.