Adif president follows Puente out: what’s left of Spain’s freight agenda?

Adif president Luis Pedro Marco de la Peña has resigned, a day after Transport Minister Óscar Puente quit over the deadly Urda high-speed crash. With Spain’s rail leadership upended just weeks before the 29 November snap election, what does the shake-up mean for freight, from Adif’s new 2026–2030 funding deal to the Renfe Mercancías–Medway joint venture?

Luis Pedro Marco de la Peña stepped down on 4 November at his first meeting with Carlos Cuerpo and the former minister’s number two, Secretary of State for Transport José Antonio Santano. Cuerpo, the first deputy prime minister and economy minister, has taken over the transport portfolio on an interim basis. According to media reports, Marco de la Peña had already told Puente that he intended to leave following the Urda tragedy. Spain’s right-wing press claimed the government had already decided to replace him and had only been weighing when to announce it. No successor has yet been named. He was Adif’s fourth president in just over five years.

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