The foundation has condemned the allocation of public money, either from the Spanish Government or from the foreign government, to the TAV and has specified that, if this tranche is finally made, the cost will be EUR 700 million.

“When President Chivite and Counsellor Gomez have been in Glasgow, have you not heard that the construction of the TAV is an element of pollution with large emissions of polluting gases that are difficult to compensate?

When in the Parliament of Navarra the Foral Law on Climate Change is being processed and we are being told about mitigation measures, have you not known that the improved conventional train that transports people and goods is the most rational, cheapest, most equitable and most effective measure in terms of energy consumption and CO2 emissions?”

The Foundation has also established itself on social criteria: “How can hundreds of millions of euros be given in a work that does not open new stops and windows or improve services to the people, until it jeopardizes the little that remains in the center of Navarra and without any intention of taking vehicles out of the roads?”

They recalled that Subai Erakuntza made the proposal of the Public and Social Train in 2018 and that we are still in time to leave the TAV, which only benefits the economic elites, spending “financial, natural, environmental and agricultural resources”.

They call for the cessation of the works of the TAV and for them not to be awarded for the other tranche: “It’s time for political parties to vote in favour of the Social Train and stop talking about public budgets for the TAV in Madrid and Pamplona.” On 11 December, they call on the Orain Úzquiza initiative in Iruñea to support the demand that TAV money be spent on social spending.