"At the moment there is chaos in the railway, a disinvestment that is unprecedented," Assunção Cristas said on arrival at the station in Coimbra B. The CDS leader walked on Tuesday between the western line between Caldas da Rainha and Coimbra, to talk on the "degradation of conditions in the CP". Cristas has announced to the journalists that he wants to hear the government in the Assembly of the Republic. The centrists will "demand that the government go to parliament as soon as possible", so they will today submit an application "for the permanent committee to meet in the presence of the minister".
Cristas wants to hear the Minister of Planning and Infrastructure, Pedro Marques, accusing him of "blaming the previous government" for the state to which the CP service has come. "The truth is that [o Governo] has been working for three years "and since then" it has been time to make investments that the previous government could not do because it picked up a failed country by the PS, "he said, as far as the current state is concerned," the government not explained, "accuses the centrist leader." On the contrary, it devalues ".
At the station in Coimbra, the CDS leader, accompanied by a group of party members including Nuno Melo, Pedro Mota Soares and João Almeida, stressed that "trains are not reliable in connection with timetables" and thereby lose passengers. The action of the CDS has spread to different parts of the country, where party leaders come across different lines to draw attention to the problems of the sector. "The worst investment ever on the railway in Portugal," writes Cristas, has led to a scenario "with cruel prisoners and repression of lines, trains and with everyone, from users to employees, deeply displeased."
On Tuesday, the former minister had a line that might no longer work. The first government of Passos Coelho even announced the closure of part of the West Line. The October 2011 strategic transport plan ended with rail passenger transport between Caldas da Rainha and Figueira da Foz, but an investigation commissioned by the Caldas municipality offered solutions for the viability of the connection, with the connection to Coimbra, which is the government of the time. agreed to implement.
Asked by journalists about the role of the government that was integrated in the lack of conditions now mentioned, Cristas said that the executive of António Costa "now does not want to wash his hands and apologize to the previous government." And he repeated, "Three years have passed, there is nothing of this government that can blame the previous government." If so, he continued, "it is because they have not been able to rule. They can go, they are over. & # 39;
The answer to a question about the mandate of the former president of the public transporter, Manuel Queiró, who was also a member of the CDS, was short: "CP does what the government allows."
The current president of CP, Carlos Nogueira, announced this week that the company could rent six to ten trains to Spain to cope with the lack of rolling stock. The operation can go up to 3.5 million euros for the seven million that CP has already paid 20 compositions to the Spanish congenital Renfe. The manager said that the strengthening of the rent will be the solution until CP has new trains, "in three or more years".
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