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At least 39 people have been killed and 12 are in intensive care after two trains collided in southern Spain on Sunday night in what the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, called “a night of deep pain for our country”.
A high-speed Iryo train travelling from Málaga to Madrid derailed near the municipality of Adamuz in Córdoba province at around 7.40pm on Sunday, crossing on to the other track where it hit an oncoming train, Adif, Spain’s rail infrastructure authority, posted on X.
The death/injury numbers have been going up since the last report a few hours ago
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The train was new (2022) and passed revision two weeks ago. The tracks were renovated last year. Both trains were going below speed limit.
There are reports that the previous train already hit some bump on the route there. My guess is they fucked up the track renovation. Hopefully this will be the end of this transportation minister and of the whole government soon after that.
The next government is going to be far-right like in the rest of europe so good luck if you think that’s going to improve anything.
Yyep. The Nazi gambit.
Just a little nationalist fascism to get the economy going.
Voters seem to always think “well, unlike the last hundred times, it might be alright this time?”
The next government will not be far-right. Vox is not going to win. It will most probably be in the coalition but we will see how much influence it will have over the policy. At this point this result is pretty much inevitable. PSOE had too many corruption scandals and mismanaged too many things like the infrastructure (as we can see). It’s amazing it lasted as long it did with its dependency on separatist parties and deals undermining democracy. They are doing good on economy and I applaud them for standing up for Palestine (it’s great not having to be ashamed of your government) but I think it’s time for them to go. It’s hard to tell what PP-Vox government will look like. Everyone was afraid of Meloni and she’s doing fine. My hope is that PP will not fuck up the economy but will improve infrastructure. I don’t think they will do much on social issues, they tried already in the past and failed. We’ll see, I will follow next elections closely and decide were to cast my vote. I don’t think it will be PSOE though, probably Sumar or PP.
Tell us you vote V🤮x without telling you vote V🤮x.
I never voted for Vox and never will so shut up.
PP it is, then. Same shit, different color.
Typical for Podemos voter to say. Too buried in all the identity politics issues to see what’s going on in real world.
Not even the experts know yet WTF has happened and you are asking for the whole government to do EXACTLY what the PP and V🤮x say… but the problem is “the mindset of the typical Podemos voter” (whatever it is).
Do you really think the rest of the people is stupid?
I don’t know what you’re talking about. Is there some language barrier here?
I’m not asking the whole government to do anything. I’m saying they terribly mismanaged some things and it’s time for them to go. Not because of this one accident but because of all the issues Renfe had in recent years, because of the energy grid issues and because of how they fucked up car charging infrastructure. And they will go after the next elections. The did some good things, it will be a shame that lose some momentum on worker rights and environmental issues but I don’t think it’s enough to ignore their corruptions and incompetence in other areas.
I’m also not saying anything of this is because of Podemos voters. I’m saying it’s your problem. If you think PP and Vox is the same you simply don’t know that much about politics and probably vote based on some propaganda and/or emotions.
- The black out that was because Endesa, Iberdrola and the rest of PRIVATE companies didn’t do their job right.
- The car charging infrastructure (that I’m a user of) that is build by PRIVATE companies.
And PP WAS different (but not that much) from V 🤮x before. But today Ayuso is moving the party toward the far right with little push back from Feijoo. Remember: Aznar came from Falange, not the center-right and about Rajoy, I’ll just say one thing: Caso Reace.
About the Renfe problems… just one thing: I live in Extremadura 🤷
Thanks for the info. How might culpability go back to the transport minister and the whole government? Did they create track company Adif? Did they refuse to reform it?
Adif is state-owned.
I know, but surely the Adif chief gets fired first? The minister only goes if this keeps happening, or they appointed a bad chief despite being warned, or they cut the budget, or some similar thing they did.
The minister is accountable for their department’s responsibility
After a point. More than double this die on Spain’s roads each month and transport ministers aren’t fired. Not even the Director-General for Roads gets fired for that. So I’m not seeing why anyone expects the Minister for Transport to be toast over this.
