The PP spokesperson in Congress and person responsible for the campaign for the general elections of November 29, Ester Muñoz, has insisted on the advisability of carrying out an audit of the rail lines, increasing investment and replacing party posts with technical professionals at Renfe and Adif, after a new derailment, in reference to the accident of a freight train in Zarzalejo (Madrid) this Sunday.
During an appearance before the media in Segovia, Muñoz said that the PP will push forward these initiatives if it wins the next elections and recalled that her party already called for an audit in 2024, although the then Transport minister, Óscar Puente, "responded with mockery".
The 'popular' leader has underlined that, when Alberto Núñez Feijóo arrives in the Executive, "the first thing" she will undertake will be a "review of each ministry", and, within that framework, the focus will be on the condition of the roads and of the rail infrastructure.
Muñoz has reiterated that the goal is to ensure safe tracks in the current context, in which she herself has experienced "fear" as a passenger on routes such as the one from Segovia and Madrid, where, as she has pointed out, vibrations and delays on the AVE are recorded.
She has framed this rail situation within a scenario in which, in her view, "Spain does not work" because of the management of the Government of Pedro Sánchez, which would have caused that "no Spaniard lives today better than eight years ago". In this context, she also mentioned the housing problem and the difficulties faced by self-employed workers.
As a counterpoint, she has defended the PP’s electoral program, which includes among its commitments "to carry out, in its first 100 days, an audit of public contracts, accounts and public companies", because, as Muñoz has argued, "the decline in management responds to the lack of control over public funds".
When asked about the polls, she agreed with the criterion of the president of the Board, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, by warning that nothing has been decided and has stressed that "polls are polls, but they are not votes".
In this line, she has accused the Government of using the CIS politically, the only barometer in which, she has pointed out, "the PP is not the leading force", and has shown her confidence that the PP will prevail on November 29 and Feijoo will be president.