Puente responds to those demanding his resignation: "I can't do any more and you can't ask any more of me."

Barcelona / MadridThe Adamuz train crash has become a major political crisis for Pedro Sánchez's government. The People's Party (PP) has long since chosen a culprit and is demanding that Sánchez immediately dismiss the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente. But the most belligerent voices within the party are now aiming higher: at a press breakfast, Isabel Díaz Ayuso demanded that, in addition to Puente, Sánchez himself should resign immediately. Ayuso is once again setting the pace for the PP, although she maintains that the entire party is acting in unison. Meanwhile, the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has requested the immediate appearance of the Spanish Prime Minister before the Senate to clarify all the questions that have arisen since last Sunday's derailment of two trains, which left 45 dead and dozens injured.

Speaking on Cope radio, Feijóo accused Sánchez of creating a "firewall" around the Minister of Transport to remove himself from the political front lines and avoid confronting the situation. Sánchez has already requested to appear before Congress to explain the rail chaos and also to detail the latest European Council meeting. A combination that, according to Feijóo, "humiliates the victims."

For his part, Minister Óscar Puente, in the center of the opposition's target Following the train tragedy in Adamuz, the Minister of Transport defended his handling of the crisis on Monday against attacks and calls for his resignation from the People's Party (PP): "I can't do more, and no one can ask for more," he stated in an interview on TVE, his sixteenth in a week (in addition to three press conferences), as he himself was careful to point out. The Minister of Transport, with whom Pedro Sánchez has closed ranks, denied any "lack of transparency" in the days following the accident and asserted the Spanish government's transparency in establishing the causes of the crash: "I haven't lied, nor do I have any interest in lying," he said. The minister affirmed that he "wants to know what happened" because his responsibility is "to prevent it from happening again." For the moment, he indicated, it is known that the accident occurred due to a break in one of the new rails that had been laid in May of last year, "near the welding." "It seems that there was a twisting [of the rail]," he said. The Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF) Investigate the causes of the tragedy And at this time, several hypotheses are being considered, the minister recalled.

Puente has labeled the PP's attitude "irresponsible" after the Popular Party asked him to resign based on "manifestly false or biased information" about the state of the tracks where the fatal accident occurred. "I expected them to ask for my resignation; the question is, what is their basis for it?" he emphasized, insisting that if it is ultimately determined that he bears any responsibility for the tragedy, he will accept it: "Let whoever has to fall, fall, and if it's me, then I'll have to fall," he said, reiterating his point. The calls for Puente's resignation are not only coming from the PP or Vox, but also from one of the PSOE's main partners: the president of ERC directly pointed the finger at the Minister of Transport and also at the Minister of Territory on Sunday.