Spain: Transport Minister resigns over the train crash in Toledo

“I wish to announce that I am resigning not only from my post as Minister for Transport, but also from my position as the Socialist Party’s lead candidate for Valladolid in the general election on 29 November.”

With these words, Oscar Puente, the Spanish Minister for Transport, announced a change of course at the end of a four-hour hearing before the Standing Committee of the Spanish Congress of Deputies on the train crash in Urda, in the province of Toledo, which claimed at least 69 lives on 28 October.