The leader of the PP and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has paid tribute to the victims and the family members affected by the rail tragedy in Urda (Toledo), underlining his commitment to show the citizens that "there is an alternative, that weariness cannot be resignation and that sadness is not incompatible with hope". "Therefore there is hope, of course there is, it is set for November 29," he has said.
Feijóo has delivered this message in Valladolid, during his first campaign rally after the rail incident, at an event in which the provincial president of the PP, Conrado Íscar; the mayor of Valladolid and candidate for the Senate, Jesús Julio Carnero; the head of the list to the Congress, María Pardo; and the regional president of the party, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, had previously spoken.
At the start of his speech, the 'popular' leader dedicated a special thought to those affected by the Urda accident. "It's not easy to get up on a stage and speak after an event like the one in Urda; it's not easy to raise your voice, to put yourself in campaign mode, it isn't," he admitted to those attending.
"It's not easy because we have very much in mind what happened last week. We have the victims and their families in mind," he said, reserving also some words for the family and the surroundings of the former popular minister Fátima Báñez, who died in the incident.
In this context, Feijóo has pointed out that he sees Spain "sad and worried" and has recounted that, a few days ago, he received in his office one of the people affected by the accident, who wanted to meet with him privately to convey the importance of placing trained professionals in key positions, on which the safety of the population depends.
In response, it has been questioned "what country Spain has become so that a citizen who has gone through something so tragic feels the need to ask for something so basic". To that reflection, he has added the answer he received: "He told me that people feel a lot of despair and you will have to return it."
As he has defended, on November 29 the Spanish will have the possibility of "putting an end to years of sanchismo and saying that a new stage begins".
"That is why we do not come against anyone; we come for someone, we come for you, because that is what we want to talk about. It is time for politics to speak again about people. It is also a task that falls to us," the PP president has emphasized, before launching into the "years of junk policies of the PSOE, of spectacle and of scandals".
The rally of the Partido Popular, held this Saturday in Valladolid, has taken place in a markedly festive atmosphere, with numerous flags of Spain and the PP waving among the crowd and the projection of the video "At last".
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has been welcomed with shouts of "President!", in an auditorium in which slogans such as "Long live Castile and León!", "Long live Ceuta!", "Long live the Partido Popular!" and "Long live Spain!" were also chanted.
The president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, has highlighted the magnitude of the event, assuring Feijóo that it was held in a hall "bigger and better" than the one used in the campaign for the regional elections, because "you deserve the best".
The event has also brought together hundreds of mayors and provincial deputies, presented as an example of "good politics and management," focused on creating opportunities and raising the quality of life of neighbors.