Oscar BridgeMinister of Transportation And Sustainable mobilityappointed a new president this morning Adif has Luis Pedro Marco de la Peña. An appointment which comes after the dismissal of Angel Contreras a week ago.
Since 2020, Marco de la Peña He was Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport of the Executive of the Basque Country. He will replace Ángel Contreras, fired by Puente a week ago for his relationship in one of the branches of the ‘Koldo case‘.
The ministry assures that this appointment is made with a view to renewing the organization chart and promoting the management of the company. Oscar Puente dismissed Angel Contreras as president of Adif less than a year after taking office.
It should be remembered that Contreras, moreover, appeared in the Senate as part of the commission of inquiry into the case Koldo“, where he assured that “there had never been rigged “no type of contract”, and disengaged of this “type of movements”.
The former president of Adif, Isabelle Pardo de Verawho denied having received instructions to award contracts, during the pandemic, to the company Soluciones de Gestión, known for the investigation into this case.
From the ministry, the Oscar Bridge assured that Contreras’ dismissal “it has nothing to do with it” with the police investigation linked to the man who was an advisor to the former minister Jose Luis AbalosKoldo Garcia.
Contreras fired
The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Oscar Bridgedismissed the president of the Administrator of Railway Infrastructure (Adif), a public commercial entity attached to his department, Angel Contreraswith the aim of “promoting the management of the company”. In the department headed by Oscar Puente, there is talk of “an internal restructuring” and it is said that in the coming weeks “there will be other changes”.
A sudden interruption that occurred a few hours after a new collapse of the country’s railway network. Hundreds of people were affected by a new incident in the signaling of the Atocha station, which depends on Adif. This type of problem has been one of the issues that has most strained the department led by Puente throughout the summer. The minister was even forced to appear before the Cortes to explain some delays caused mainly by the improvement works underway at the Madrid Chamartín – Clara Campoamor station.
Contreras had been in power for less than a year. He was appointed in late 2023. At that time, with the arrival of Óscar Puente to the ministry, Contreras replaced the former president as president of Adif, Maria Luisa Dominguez.
