> “This is too much,” the head of the rightwing Popular party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, wrote on X as he demanded an “immediate clarification” of the state of the nation’s railways.
> Speaking to reporters on Tuesday before the Barcelona-area crash, the far-right Vox party’s spokesperson Pepa Millán claimed Spaniards were now “afraid to get on a train”.
> However, while the latest accidents raise concerns about safety, according to EU statistics Spain’s rail network is one of Europe’s safest. According to the same report, in 2024 a total of 16 passengers died in accidents on Europe’s rail networks, among them one passenger in Spain. During the same period there were 20,000 deaths on Europe’s roads.
From a glance at Wikipedia, the PP and Vox are the two biggest opposition parties in Spain's parliament. If they gained power - there'd be no quick, cheap, or sure fixes for the rail system...but now it would be "their fault".
Anyone familiar with Spanish politics here, to comment?