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MADRID

12/04/2023 at 2:18 p.m.

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This Monday, the minister chaired the meeting of the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council in Brussels

The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Oscar Puentehas been rebuked again, this time on an airplane flight, for a passenger who called him a “traitor”. This Monday, Puente chaired the meeting of the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council in Brussels.

According to the images spread on social networks, the person who rebukes addresses the minister, who is in a seat on the plane attentive to his cell phone, and asks him If you don’t use the Falcon, the official Army planes available to members of the Government. Puente responds that he is “no” and that he is talking on the phone, to which the passenger questions him if it is worth it for him to travel in business class and calls him a “traitor” twice.

Puente suffered a similar incident on September 29, when on an AVE between Valladolid and Madrid a traveler rebuked him, citing former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont. The socialist deputy, who would be appointed minister two months later, asked the Police to appear and confirmed that he would file a complaint. The incident caused the train to leave late.

That day, Puente He was preparing to travel to Madrid to attend the second vote in the Congress of Deputies on the failed investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. (PP), to whom the PSOE had responded from the rostrum.



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