Óscar Puente flees from the railway chaos and goes to Galicia to receive an award |

The incident will be investigated “because it is not normal.” These are the words of the minister of Transport of the Government of Pedro SánchezÓscar Puente, about the serious railway crisis that has broken out in Madrid and that has left some 15,000 passengers affected after a train overturned in the tunnel that connects the capital’s two major stations. He does them before the media in lugowhere he went to “enjoy” the day, in his own words, since he is going to be honored in the town of Sarriawhere he has his family roots.

Oscar Puente has acknowledged to the media that the train service in Madrid will not be restored normally before Monday and, for now, this is only an estimate.

“Today they are working to free one of the two tunnel lanes and it is possible that tomorrow we will have normal operations,” said the transport ministerwhich has also stated that the removal of the derailed train “can be resolved sooner than expected” because “of course the causes of the accident are not normal.”

“It is something truly serious that a train that is being towed to workshops breaks off as it seems to have broken off from the train that was towing it and ends up against a tunnel wall,” he stated. Oscar Puente with a gesture of disbelief.

Thus, the minister explained that this Saturday “two different things happened and both were very serious.” The second of them It was the person who threatened to jump onto the tracks two hours after the first incident. Given the seriousness of the situation, the State Security Bodies and Forces They requested the cutting of catenary voltage on all highways. Atocha. Puente has excused himself by saying that this lasted “for more than two hours”, with all that that “entailed” later.

According to the minister, a new official communication will be made this Sunday afternoon, “surely”, while they continue to “resolve the tunnel problem” which “seems that it can be resolved sooner than was planned.” “Maybe this afternoon we will have good news and tomorrow we will recover operations normally,” he stated.

Asked if circulation will be restored to normal tomorrow, the transport manager He has maintained that work is being done today “to free one of the two tunnel lanes” and “it is possible” that this Monday there will be “normal operations.”

PP and Voz ask for the resignation of Óscar Puente

“Given the increase in incidents in the BIRD and its inability to solve it”, the Infrastructure spokesperson of the Popular Group in Les Corts, Joserra González de Zárateand the infrastructure spokesperson of the Vox Parliamentary Group, Miguel Pascualthey ask for the resignation of the minister. The PP of Valencia will thus present a proposal in Les Corts to request the resignation while Vox has announced that “the group will present new initiatives to request the dismissal of the minister, if he does not resign before”, due to the “umpteenth incident” of the railway system that affects the Valencian Community.

“It is not tolerable that trains are suppressed en masse every so often,” denounced the popular politician. “The Ministry is more busy placing like-minded people in Adif than in managing it effectively. We all know what Ábalos’ friends did in Adif and it seems that they continue along the same lines,” he denounced. “It is an absolute disaster and, what is worse, no measures are adopted to provide solutions,” González de Zárate insisted. “There’s no one at the wheel.”

“We clearly find ourselves facing the worst transport minister in recent years, even surpassing the previous minister, José Luis Ábalos, now plagued by corruption,” Pascual, from Vox, denounced.