Junqueras (ERC) joins Junts and demands Óscar Puente's resignation over the Rodalies situation in Catalonia

The president of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, has joined Junts per Catalunya and demanded the resignation of the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, and the Minister of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition of the Generalitat, Sílvia Paneque, due to the situation of the Rodalies rail service in Catalonia, whose service remains suspended this Sunday.

Junqueras expressed this at a press conference from the headquarters of Esquerra Republicana, **where he denounced that both Puente and Paneque "have resigned from their obligations and their duties because they are more concerned with finding specific excuses than with facing the problem in its full magnitude."** "For all practical purposes, they have already resigned, they should also resign in formal aspects," stated the Republican leader, who added that both have shown a clear inability to manage and explain the crisis, textually.

In parallel, former president Carles Puigdemont has interpreted the railway accidents in Adamuz and Gélida and the subsequent chaos on Barcelona's Rodalies commuter trains as a political opportunity to simultaneously weaken the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa. **Junts per Catalunya has also called for the resignation of the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Territory. "How many more track closures are needed for the minister and the consellera to resign?" Junts' spokesperson in the Parliament, Salvador Vergés, asked this Friday.**Vergés has reproached Paneque for having decided "to a large extent to be an excuse and protect the Government" instead of denouncing what he considers a lack of investment in railway infrastructure. Likewise, he has assured that **"among those who shout and dissemble" there must be someone who provides solutions and, in his opinion, that is the role that ERC must assume.**