The spokesperson for Vox in Congress, Pepa Rodríguez de Millán, argues that Óscar Puente’s resignation as Minister of Transport and as head of the ticket for the general elections does not obey “dignity,” but is part of a “political operation” aimed at “trying to save whatever little” she believes “is left of the PSOE campaign.”
“It has taken 116 deaths for him to be dismissed, because this has not been a resignation, nor has it been done out of dignity, nor has it been done out of any kind of empathy,” Rodríguez de Millán said in an interview on 'Antena 3', reported by Europa Press, referring to the victims of the train accidents in Adamuz (Córdoba) and Urda (Toledo).
According to Vox’s leader, Puente leaves the Ministry after, in the PSOE, “they have seen the polls” and decided to remove him. In her view, “it is absolutely regrettable that a human tragedy of these characteristics has been turned into a political operation to try to save whatever little is left of his campaign,” she reproaches, stressing that the socialists “have shown no kind of humanity, nor morality, nor principle, nor an end.”
In addition, she warned that “it would be a mistake to think” that with Puente’s departure all responsibilities are cleared and “that the whole disaster of the Government led by the Ministry of Transport is over.”
At this point, she rejected the PSOE argument that Puente’s resignation would show that not all public office holders act the same: “Of course not all politicians are equal because I think that nobody in their right mind would have waited to have 116 dead people in order to make a decision of this kind.”
Criminal responsibilities and management in Transport
Thus, she reiterated that “no matter how much now” they try “to dress up” the change with “a certain technical air” by placing Transport under the responsibility of the vice president, Carlos Cuerpo, the “biggest person responsible” for the “disastrous management” in that department is still the President Pedro Sánchez.
“They are the top people responsible and responsibilities don’t end here either, because here there are also criminal responsibilities and Vox will do everything possible to bring before a court every person responsible for the 116 deaths,” she emphasized, pointing again to Puente himself.
In his view, "it is evident" that the Ministry's actions have been "null". "Over all these months we have been finding out about the corrupt system they had in the Ministry of Transport", he said, stressing that "we will have to see who the people really are who are in charge of running the rail network in Spain" and "what this Government is spending the money on".