The general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, has launched a harsh attack on the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for “bolting” and not attending this Tuesday’s funeral for the victims of the Urda accident (Toledo), going as far as calling him a “coward” and saying that, in his view, “he fears the reaction of the people.”
The Toledo Cathedral will be the setting this Tuesday, at 7:00 p.m., for the funeral mass in remembrance of the 69 victims of the railway incident on October 28 in the town of Urda, Toledo. The attendance is expected of the Kings Felipe VI and Letizia, as well as of the Vice President Carlos Cuerpo, the Minister of Education, Milagros Tolón, and the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
During the presentation of the information breakfast of the mayor of Toledo, Carlos Velázquez, organized by Europa Press, Tellado criticized that Sánchez has again chosen to stay away from a State funeral in memory of victims of a railway accident, recalling that he also did not attend the tribute for the victims of the incident in Adamuz (Córdoba). “Spain deserves no more disrespect and more contempt,” he stressed.
Criticism of Sánchez’s no-show and his attitude toward the victims
“Today Sánchez will bolt,” Tellado reiterated, reproaching him for, for the second time, disrespecting those who have lost their lives in a railway tragedy. In his opinion, he acts “simply because he is a cowardly president” and opts to “record a podcast” at the same time instead of being at the side of the victims’ families.
As he defended, “the reality is that he doesn’t go because he’s not brave enough, he doesn’t go because he fears the reaction of the people, but a president of the Government who deserves to be one knows that he has to show up and that he has to fulfill his obligations and do so always,” he said, to underscore that “one of them, without a doubt, is to take charge of the nation’s feelings and accompany his fellow citizens” in moments of collective pain.
Tellado added that such behavior is “an impossible mission for an indifferent president,” referring to his “repertoire” of phrases such as “It’s five o’clock and I haven’t eaten” or “If they need help, let them ask for it.”
Call for political change and references to corruption
In this context, the PP’s number two insisted that the political handover is urgent in Spain, among other reasons to “restore decency in the exercise of power.” In his view, the country “does not deserve an amoral President of the Government” like Pedro Sánchez.
Tellado has recalled that this Monday the head of the Executive stated that corruption "turns his stomach" and has pointed out with irony that, with the cases that affect members of the PSOE, in these years he will have suffered "nausea, dizziness and vomiting".
At the information breakfast with the mayor of Toledo, called by Europa Press, attended, among others, the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida, the president of the PP of Castilla-La Mancha, Paco Núñez, the auxiliary bishop of Toledo, and numerous PP leaders in the region.