After the storm comes the calm or, in the case of Oscar Puenteafter originating a political dispute with the president of Argentina, the silence on a new incident on the Cercanías network of Madrid, direct responsibility of the Ministry of Transport that it directs. Puente has spoken throughout the day about the distribution of AENA dividends, about new projects and investments by his ministry, about the new demonstration of the PP against the Government or even to mourn the death of a friend. But not about the breakdown in one of the lines of the Madrid commuter network that has left the unusual image of dozens of people walking along the tracks to reach Atocha on foot and has paralyzed traffic at the Madrid station during rush hour.
Minister Puente did not have a public agenda this Monday and has made demonstrations on various issues through the social networkbut none in relation to an incident that government sources believe could have been less if it had not been for the passengers jumping onto the tracks and about which, they point out, a statement has already been made Renfe.
The company has explained that the The breakdown was in the signaling infrastructure at the registered Atocha exit, which has been magnified when the passengers of the Guadalajara-Madrid Chamartín line train have activated the alarm devices and opening buttons of doors and have begun to go down to the road to continue on foot from a point at Téllez Street. The same thing happened shortly after with another train coming from Guadalajara and bound for Príncipe Pío, which also stopped and whose passengers pressed the alarm and door opening buttons. Given this situation, Renfe has informed its security officials and those of Adif that They will completely cut off circulation of five tracks at the Atocha station, which was restored just over an hour later, at 9:40 a.m.
The PP has criticized Puente’s silence about what happened in Atocha and the delegate of Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility of the Madrid City Council, Borja Carabantehas accused the minister of create “a conflict with Argentina”, while the people of Madrid suffer “chaos” in Cercanías. For his part, the leader of the Madrid PSOE, Juan Lobato has apologized to users for what happened. He has recognized that the works being undertaken on the Madrid Cercanías network “involve extraordinarily complex actions” and has asked the Ministry and the Department of Transport for “interlocution” to minimize the negative effects.
Puente’s silence about what happened in Cercanías contrasts with the continuous messages that, also this Monday, he usually sends through social networks. Precisely, he was speaking about his way of using them last Saturday at a party event in Salamanca in which he revealed that the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, take “substances.” “Do you remember when “It came out in I don’t know what state prior to ingestion or after ingestion of I don’t know what substances.”he said, turning on the fuse of a political crisis between Spain and Argentina, which continued with an angry letter from Milei against the president, Pedro Sanchezand which in Spain continued this Monday with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Albareswarning that disqualification in politics “jibarizes democracy” and has asked to “recover the word in the face of disqualification.” Later, the Argentine government has considered the controversy “over.”
Instead of Puente, the one who has given some explanation for his words has been the leadership of the PSOE, from Ferraz. His national spokesperson, Esther Penahas explained that they occurred in the “framework of a relaxed conversation” and has considered Milei’s response “absolutely disproportionate, out of place and with few precedents in democracy.”
Other tweets
That Puente has not commented on the Cercanías incident or on his words about Milei does not mean that he has been missing from social networks, which he uses with real assiduity. His first tweets were to celebrate the historical fact of 21.1 million workers affiliated with the Security in April. Later, he went on to highlight his Ministry’s actions on the old Twitter, several informative studies for the railway networks of El Bierzo, A Coruña and Madrid and, hours later and after learning about the initiative, criticizing the new one with several tweets. demonstration called by the PP against the Government. Subsequently, he has left other messages against the popular ones on the Catalan campaignone of them to counterattack the criticism of Isabel Diaz Ayuso to Salvador Illa reminding the Madrid president of the number of deaths from Covid in the residences.
Puente’s day on social networks has also helped to amplify the distribution of dividends from AENA, for which the State will receive 586 million, and also to express his condolences for the death of a friend, the journalist from Onda Cero Valladolid Vicente Ballester.
