The Popular Party will take advantage of its absolute majority in the Senate to push forward this week the creation of an investigative commission that will analyze the situation of the high-speed rail network, Rodalies in Catalonia, and the Cercanías service in the country as a whole. The initiative was announced a few weeks ago by the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
The announcement occurred on the same day that the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, appeared in an extraordinary Plenary session in the Upper Chamber to report on the railway accidents registered in Adamuz (Córdoba) and Gelida (Barcelona). In a television interview, Feijóo then announced his party's intention to promote an investigation into the state of the railway network throughout Spain.
The Popular Party has now formalized the request to establish this commission —which would be the sixth in the Senate— and anticipates that the matter will be approved in the Plenary Session scheduled for the coming days thanks to their parliamentary majority.
In a statement, the PP justifies the initiative by assuring that "Spaniards suffer delays and cancellations in their trips and insecurity in their movements. And all this due to the negligent management of the Sánchez and Puente Government, who have abandoned railway infrastructure and have prioritized social networks, kickbacks, and nepotism for nieces in the Ministry, instead of railway networks".
