The president of the Junta and of the PP-A, Juanma Moreno, launched this Thursday against the "lack of investment" in Andalusia during the eight years of Pedro Sánchez's time in office, focusing on rail infrastructures. In this context, he questioned "where the money is" intended for the maintenance of the AVE that connects with Andalusia and whether the "Peugeot guys put their hands in" those resources.
"Now we receive information that there is a judge investigating bribes in the maintenance of the southern corridor tracks; what are they telling me, that Koldo (García), (José Luis) Ábalos, the Peugeot guys, put their hands in the maintenance of those tracks and that this may have caused the accidents? It’s that it is very serious," Juanma Moreno has said at an election rally in Huelva in the first part of the campaign for the general elections of November 29.
According to Moreno, the "greatest exponent" and "most serious" aspect of that "lack of investment" by the central government in the rail connection between Andalusia and Madrid is reflected in the incidents in Adamuz (Córdoba) and Urda (Toledo) registered this year, in which 115 people lost their lives.
Juanma Moreno criticized that the government neither "assumed responsibilities" nor "checked" what happened in Adamuz and that, as a consequence of that lack of reaction, "in the end what had to happen has happened, another new accident," in Urda. "That is something inconceivable; never in the history of high-speed rail have there been accidents so serious," Juanma Moreno added, who asked himself "how the railways could have deteriorated so much" until producing such a tragic toll.
"How have they been able to allow that we don’t know what has happened over the course of ten months (the time that passed between the Adamuz accident and the Urda one)?" the president of Andalusia has asked, before stressing that even the European Public Prosecutor's Office, on its own initiative, has opened proceedings to check whether the money transferred by the EU to the central government through the Next Generation funds "has been spent on what it had to be spent on, in implementing security systems like the rest of Europe has."
"Where is that money?", as Juanma Moreno has asked, who has assured that, if Alberto Núñez Feijóo reaches the Moncloa, he will drive a "kilometer-by-kilometer audit of the south corridor from Madrid to Andalucía" in order to clarify "what has happened with the money, where it is, and who may have been able to take it", and so that "security is restored to us on our trains and we can travel with peace of mind".
Moreno also criticized that the central Government has not been "able to look for alternatives" in the face of the current closure of the high-speed line between Andalucía and Madrid. In his view, "once again we are isolated, which is going to have a brutal economic impact on the bridges and at Christmas".