The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has come out in defense of the former Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, emphasizing that he has known how to "face it" and provide "solutions" before taking "a step aside" "out of respect for the victims".
"Politicians like him dignify our country," he said this Tuesday in a message on 'X', reported by Europa Press, in which he linked Puente's resignation with "dignity" and "personal will," as well as with his consideration for the "progressive project".
The head of the Executive has stressed that the choice of the former person in charge of Transport "shows" that "not all of us are the same," because "some only give lessons" while "others give everything," in a veiled reference to the Partido Popular.
The resignation, communicated by the minister this Tuesday to the Permanent Standing Committee of the Congress, and which also means leaving his name out of the PSOE lists for 29N, occurs six days after the Urda (Toledo) rail accident, in which 69 people died, and nine months after the Adamuz (Córdoba) incident, which cost the lives of 46 travelers.