He Spanish Minister of Transport on Thursday he accused the right-wing and far-right opposition of fueling “chaos” after the railway disaster that left 45 muertos on January 18 in the south of Spain.
Received in the Senate, where the right has a majority, with cries of “Resignation!“, the minister Oscar Puente He defended the management of the tragedy by the regional authorities and the central government, reiterating his “total” commitment to clarifying what happened.
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Puente, who has offered numerous press conferences and interviews to various media in recent days, He attacked the right and the extreme right for spreading “hoaxes” about the accidentespecially about the response of the authorities.
“I have read and heard real atrocities,” the minister complained to the senators, accusing the opposition of “feeding more chaos” and “sowing fear.”
“It is the game of the extreme right and, unfortunately, sometimes of the right as well,” continued Puente, who admitted not yet having “all the answers” about the causes of the tragedy.
Researchers are leaning towards the hypothesis of a breakage of a weld on a rail as the cause of the derailment of several cars of a train near Adamuzin the region of Andalusia, which invaded the adjacent road seconds before another convoy passed in the opposite direction, causing the collision.
The definitive balance of the tragedy, which shocked the entire country and revived the debate on maintenance status of the Spanish railway networkit was from 45 muertos and more than a hundred injured, according to the authorities.
Just before Puente’s intervention, the People’s Party (PP, right), like Vox (extreme right), regretted the absence in the Senate this Thursday of the President of the Government, the socialist Pedro Sanchez.
The senator of the PP, Alicia Garciacalled Sánchez “cowardly president” who preferred to “stay in his bunker” in the presidential palace of the “Hidden Moncloa.”
Pedro Sánchez will speak about the tragedy on February 11 before the Congress of Deputies, the other chamber of Parliament.
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This Thursday At 5:00 p.m. GMT a mass will take place in tribute to the victims in the city of Huelva.where a good part of the deceased were from, with the presence of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, but without Sánchez, whose resignation is demanded by the opposition.
The publication of the final report on the causes of the Adamuz tragedy will take several months.
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