The PSOE maintained this Thursday that the closure of the Sol Metro station responded to a political interest so that the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, "does not listen" to the encampment, while the regional government replied that the occupants of the facilities are "making a mess" in the subway.
The exchange of accusations occurred during the control session of the regional Executive in the Plenary of the Madrid Assembly, where the socialist deputy Javier Guardiola reproached the regional government for closing the station for political reasons and not for technical or sanitary reasons.
"First it was the killer knives to spread bread, then trying to mix the protesters with ETA. They took it to court and you lost. They sent extremist groups to cause trouble and generated violence. You have insulted them, you have defamed them and now you close the Metro", the parliamentarian affirmed.
Guardiola criticized that the closure was justified by "alleged health problems", but, he argued, without "reports, without a request from the unions, without periodic cleanings". In his opinion, the measure sought only to "confront users with protesters".
The socialist deputy also recommended to Isabel Díaz Ayuso that, if she "does not want to hear the protests", she should apply regional powers in housing matters, and questioned the speed with which access to Sol was closed.
"Why didn't they act so quickly, for example, with asbestos in the Metro? Or when thousands of workers spent the whole summer without air conditioning? Why don't they act when every morning the wagons are full of people?", he concluded.
The response of the Community of Madrid
For his part, the Minister of Housing, Transport and Infrastructure, Jorge Rodrigo, warned that the station will be closed again if the "ammonia levels that occurred last time" are repeated, and maintained that the responsibility will fall on the PSOE and on the Government delegate, Francisco Martín.
"The gentlemen who are camped there, who you don't even know who they are, who are out of control, who no one knows what they are doing... Something is going to happen and the responsibility will be your Government's and the Government delegate's. They are urinating and making a mess in the Metro facilities," he denounced.
Jorge Rodrigo rejected talk of politicization in this case and defended that the closure responded to a situation of insalubrity, because, as he explained, "the five ventilation shafts were full of urine and were unsanitary."
In the same turn, the minister attacked the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, whom he called "uncultured". In addition, he pointed out that Cercanías remained open, unlike Metro de Sol, because the three shafts of this service are located in the Puerta de Alcalá, so, in his opinion, "it is normal that it does not close".
Rodrigo concluded with a warning: "I warn you, if they continue to occur, because right now the ventilation shafts are, again, occupied by the tents. If something happens, the responsibility will be yours and your Government delegate's."