The knowledge that the King without Corona has recently published his memoirs and is commemorating 50 years of his coronation has betrayed the debate about what will be his beginning in the history of Spain. The Spanish Left Party is clear: the best thing is to erase his legacy due to the scandals that arose during his final years in the palace of La Zarzuela. More Madrid, through the Somar Parliamentary Group, will submit an initiative to Congress to remove Juan Carlos I, the name of his king, from universities, hospitals, from streets and roads. Completely blurry, as if it had never existed before it is relevant to the transition, although the respect for the monarchy that holds mayoral parties is difficult to overcome.
In this party, they consider that it would be more reasonable if they considered that at their convention, the next day, they would celebrate the middle part of his coronation who had never been invited. He will thus be assisted by the current kings, Felipe VI and Letizia, and his daughters, the Princess of Asturias and the Infanta Sofía, but their absence has a very strong symbolism. Juan Carlos I will spend this day full of celebration, in Abu Dhabi, the place where he took refuge in the fall of his life.
Coherently, for Mas Madrid, it would be tantamount to stripping all the institutions that led it, which are not rare, of its name. “Updating these symbols in accordance with the principles of integrity, equality and public morality is necessary to strengthen democratic credibility and enhance cohesive public memory,” the party explains in the initiative that will be presented next March. “He was not invited to the party, an exclusion that reveals the clear institutional distance created by the state itself and public authorities with regard to its personality,” Annaden said.
In the book of memoirs published in France and for two weeks in Spain, a heroic man is depicted, who realizes some of his mistakes, but believes that he has been treated unfairly. “My son says my back out of a sense of duty,” he says in an excerpt, when recalling a meeting with him in 2020, after which investigations emerged from justice in Switzerland regarding her multi-million dollar accounts. It is important to understand that his son, as king, maintained a “firm public position.” Continuity brings lamentation: “But I suffered from my own insensitivity.”
Juan Carlos I ruled for four decades that coincided with the era of the greatest prosperity in Spanish history. He was declared by his priest, which is consistent with the wreath if natural succession is followed. However, before his death, the dictator Francisco Franco elected him as his successor. In 2014, his father Felipe VI left, at a time when his image was eroded by several corruption cases. His health problems added to the series of accusations that surprised many Spaniards who idealized him.
In a book titled ReconciliationHe reveals a conversation I had with the current king in this transcendent moment: “You cannot forget that you inherited a political system that you built. You can exclude me from the personal and financial plan, but you cannot reject the institutional legacy that you created.” This divergence is partly to blame for the current socialist president, Pedro Sanchez, whom he accuses of “distorting” his character. Sánchez, in a recent interview with El País, quipped about this, saying: “I still haven’t read it, but I also said that it is no longer one of the books I recommend for these events, as we have seen.”
The king feels misunderstood, forgotten and unfairly treated. “I have a feeling that my story was stolen from me,” he says in the introduction. But Madrid still wants to grab something more: their name stamp.
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