ERC’s leading candidate for Barcelona and member of Congress, Gabriel Rufián, said this Thursday that "the only names and surnames" of the railway tragedy in Urda "are the cuts in investment by the PP first and the savage liberalization of the market by the PSOE afterward". With these words, he pointed directly to the management of both parties in terms of infrastructure and sector regulation.
Rufián emphasized that an "unacceptable situation", as Transport and Sustainable Mobility Minister Óscar Puente defined it on Wednesday, "requires acceptance of responsibilities, not leaks to shift them". In this way, he called for political responsibilities to be clarified instead of focusing on interested leaks.
The republican leader spoke through a message on his 'X' account, where he referred to the audio released from the prior communication to the accident between the Adif control center and the drivers of both the AVE and the Iryo train, against which the former collided, a crash that caused the death of 68 people and left more than a hundred injured.
In his analysis, Rufián argued that "a single person cannot be responsible for the lives of hundreds as far as railway transport is concerned" and insisted that "a human failure is the reflection of a failed safety system". With this, he wanted to underscore that the origin of the accident should not be attributed solely to individual errors, but to structural deficiencies in the railway safety system.