Together And MRC have expressed their support for PP to move forward this Wednesday in plenary session of the Senate reprobation of the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Oscar Bridge, for the “chaos in rail services this summer” and the incidents that have occurred on Cercanías trains in recent months.
The Senate’s disapproval of Minister Puente has the support of the 144 votes who has the absolute majority of the PP and with several parliamentary partners of the Government, among which are ERC and JuntsFor its part, the PSOE has disdained this disapproval.
The text calls on Puente to resign for “its inability to resolve the countless and constant incidents occurring in the railway network and for its lack of sensitivity and absolute lack of respect towards the protests of users due to the chaos in railway services experienced this summer.”
Puente’s disapproval has the support of several government partners, who have been highly critical of the minister’s handling of the job, including ERC and Junts due to the recent incidents in Catalan Rodaliesamong others.
The third minister has failed
Óscar Puente thus becomes the third Sánchez minister to be disapproved by the PP’s absolute majority in the Senate, after this year the Interior Minister was asked to leave the Executive, Fernando Grande-Marlaskaand the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes.
In the case of Marlaska, The Senate let him down after what happened with the two Civil Guard agents murdered after being hit by a drug boat in the port of Barbate (Cádiz). The initiative was carried out with the majority of the PP and the abstention of some government partners such as ERC, Bildu, Junts and the senator of Sumar.
For his part, Bolaños was disapproved by the absolute majority of the PP for “his lack of respect” towards the Upper House and his attitude towards the Venice Commission’s report on the amnesty law. On this occasion, the Government and its partners rejected this disapproval in the Senate.
Likewise, the PP also led an initiative in the Senate in which the statements of the head of the executive, Pedro Sánchez, about the councilors in an attack on the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, were disapproved.
