Milagros Tolón and Carlos Cuerpo will attend the funeral for the 69 victims of the Urda train accident, an event that will be held on November 10 in the Toledo Cathedral and in which the Government seeks to make its institutional presence visible.
The Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports confirmed this Friday, in Talavera de la Reina, that she will attend along with the First Vice President of the Government and Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility. "We will be there, the First Vice President and I as minister," Tolón told the media, emphasizing that the national Executive will be "represented as it always has been."
The confirmation comes after this Thursday the minister announced that there would be representatives of the Government of Spain at the funeral, although she then specified that it was not yet decided which officials would attend. Now, the attendance of Cuerpo and Tolón is set for the ceremony, presided over by the archbishop of Toledo.
For his part, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will not attend the ceremony, just as he was not present at the funeral for the victims of the Adamuz train accident.
A funeral with broad institutional presence, but with the focus on the victims
The event will also feature the presence of Kings Felipe VI and Letizia, the five bishops of Castilla-La Mancha and the president of the Episcopal Conference, Luis Javier Argüello. Added to this is the already announced attendance of the leader of the PP and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
During her visit to the Talavera de la Reina School of Art, Tolón was accompanied by the delegate of Education of the Junta in the province of Toledo, José Gutiérrez, and took the opportunity to defend the Executive's educational reforms. Specifically, she emphasized the Vocational Training Law and the Artistic Education Law.
Tolón positions vocational training as a benchmark, although the Government links this message to its educational agenda
The minister stated that Spain is "a benchmark in vocational training, not only in Europe, but throughout the world," and highlighted that there are "more than 1,200,000 students studying vocational training." Her statements were made in parallel with the confirmation of her attendance at the funeral, on a day marked by the remembrance of the victims and by the Ministry's educational agenda.
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