The Deputy Secretary of Treasury, Housing and Infrastructure of the People's Party, Juan Bravo, has censured that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has not "apologized" for the Adamuz railway accident and that he has "also not dismissed the real person responsible, Óscar Puente". At the same time, he has maintained that the power outage on April 28 of last year was due to "negligent action by the Government for not listening to the experts".
"Tomorrow begins a week that clearly reflects the negligent management of this Sánchez government and its consequences with the start of a new doctors' strike throughout Spain against Sánchez's policies," Bravo stated in statements sent to the media. In his opinion, the coming days concentrate three milestones that highlight the "negligence" of the Executive: the start of another medical strike, the anniversary of the blackout, and the hundred days since the Adamuz accident.
The 'popular' leader has stressed that "Tuesday marks one year since the blackout, which was not the result of fate or an unforeseeable accident". He added that "that same day, Tuesday, marks 100 days since the tragic accident in Adamuz, in which 46 people died".
Bravo has railed against the Government's reaction to these crises, stating that "in the face of a failure in their management, first no one assumes any responsibility for the blackout, nor the train accident, nor the doctors' strike, which is the third this year." The deputy secretary has remarked that "the saddest thing of all, no one in the government has apologized" and concluded that "Adamuz and the blackout are the same contempt from Sánchez."
Criticism of Puente for "not meeting" with victims
Furthermore, he recalled that the appearance of the president of Adif, Luis Pedro Marco de la Peña, is scheduled in the Senate this Tuesday. "The families and all Spaniards deserve that he tell the truth, that he offer all the information about what failed and why it happened. Enough lies about the causes of the accident," Bravo insisted, demanding total transparency about the accident.
Along these same lines, he has questioned the actions of the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, with regard to those affected by Adamuz, emphasizing that "the Adamuz Accident Victims Association itself considers it incredible that Minister Puente has time to create a website, to demonstrate, to exculpate himself, and yet is not capable of meeting with them".
"Many websites, many TikToks, a lot of propaganda and empty ads, but no management, no empathy, no humanity with the citizens," stated the deputy secretary, who also warned that the absence of new public accounts "aggravates the risk of more accidents." In his opinion, "without budgets there will be no money for investment, for maintenance, for the security that our country's infrastructure needs."
Bravo has defended that "Spain needs an investment in infrastructure of around 300 billion euros that must be executed in the next 10 to 15 years" and has assured that the PP will do so "with a project, with budgets, with a complete plan of priorities, with planning, being accountable to citizens and informing about the real state of infrastructures, exactly what the Sánchez Government does not do".
"We will recover the prestige of the train, we will recover the prestige of our energy system, we will address the necessary infrastructures in the water sector, all while recovering the prestige of our country. A week of such sad memories, one hundred days of Adamuz and one year since the blackout, but it is also one week less of Sánchez in Moncloa," he concluded.