José Luis Ábalos

today held his head high in the act of transferring his already former portfolio of Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda to his successor,

Raquel Sánchez

before the senior officials of the organization, presidents of public companies such as

Aena, Renfe or Adif

and representatives of business organizations. The decision of President Pedro Sánchez to dispense with one of the heavyweights of the cabinet has taken by surprise one of the ministries with the greatest participation in European funds and called to be the spearhead of the Government's economic policy.

Ábalos has highlighted the "frenetic pace" at which the ministry has worked.

"It has been more than three years and I have realized everything we have done: from the motion of censure, electoral campaigns, pandemic ... We find ourselves with an underfunded ministry and demands exploded everywhere," he recalled.

Addressing his successor, Raquel Sánchez, and in the presence of former ministers

Salvador Illa and Pepe Blanco

, he underlined the duties done in relation to the large public railroad companies, Renfe and Adif, which have separate strategic plans for the liberalization of this market.

He also reminded him that the European funds in which his former ministry will be one of the largest recipients "are about to arrive."

He has not mentioned the housing policy, which three years later continues to be a source of confrontation within the coalition government due to the debate on rents but

Ábalos has conveyed the feeling of giving up his successor when the best moment of the ministry

, after taking over the most thankless stage. "I am proud, not of being part of the Government but of serving Spain," he said, to top it off assuming that "one is the head to hit but without a great team behind there is nothing to do."

Sánchez, his successor, arrives precisely with housing as one of the mainstays of his policy at the head of the ministry and cities as one of the areas in which he wants to influence the most, although his scope is, beyond housing, precisely what connecting cities by road, train, ship or plane. "There are no rights without housing, it is the pillar of social welfare, much more than a roof and four walls. Housing is the source from which our rights and our dignity as individuals emanate and must be

at affordable prices

.

"

The former mayor of Gavá has mentioned large-scale issues in the ministry such as

the financing of highways

, a project in which Ábalos has already dropped the general imposition of tolls, but has preferred to elaborate on that his management will focus, in addition to housing, in the sustainable, in the proximity that gives it its municipal experience and in active feminism, a point at which it coincides with its neighboring ministry in Madrid, the Ministry of Labor directed by

Yolanda Díaz

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