Two of the most relevant anniversaries in the contemporary history of Spain are approaching. In November, on the 20th and 22nd, fifty years of the death of Franco and fifty years of the coronation of Juan Carlos de Borbón as king of Spain. Two milestones without which the future of our nation could not be explained, the transit of a dictatorship of forty years to a democracy. Two milestones that some will take advantage to load against the system and resurrect old clashes, and others to honor the legacy of a period in which the enemies were able to accept themselves as rivals and hugged themselves in the agreement.
The popular party leaders want to be the second. That’s why, Alberto Núñez Feijóo He advanced to La Razón, in his last forum, that there will be a celebration of “the transition and of the Constitution”, the port where the journey of the understanding undertaken by Juan Carlos i. In the next three years, half a century of the first steps towards the opening, the reform that buried the dictatorship, of the true amnesty, of the legalization of the Communist Party, of the first elections, of the Pacts of the Moncloa, half a century, in short, of democracy.
However, the first milestone, the arrival on the throne of one of the architects throughout the process will pass with such little penalty as glory. I want and I can’t, for the first opposition party … and the country. It happens that Feijóo feels institutional respect for the figure of King Emeritus. During his stage as president of the Xunta, he forged a relationship that transcended the personal. The two share tastes, love and even acquaintances, or friends.
Already retired of his obligations, in many of his visits to Galicia, an point that began to frequent for his fondness for the sea, the king used to see Feijóo. Of the official meetings, to the friendlies. For sample, lunch alone, like that of June 12, 2019, in a restaurant in Santiago de Compostela. To check the complicity that united just review the photographic newspaper library.
Everything changed in the figure of Juan Carlos when, as soon as the pandemic exploded, the information that revealed their scandals pushed Felipe VI to publicly give up your inheritance.
Then, the “voluntary exile” arrived. A five years in which Feijóo has maintained contact with the emeritus and has been one of the few leaders who has defended him. In a recent visit by Don Juan Carlos to Sanxenxo, he said: “It is one of its favorite places, I guess we can welcome you. Here it is very good and we like it a lot to be here. ”
Now, before an ephemeris of such characteristics, no one escapes that Feijóo would be in favor of giving him the flatness he deserves. But a problem occurs: the royal house a long time ago ran a curtain of steel on King Emeritus. In fact, when the government raised the “frank year” that seemed almost an artistic tour, he outlined the possibility of paying tribute. He quickly delegated responsibility in La Zarzuela. Time passes and … nothing. There is no forecast to honor King Juan Carlos. And the PP, at such a convulsive moment of politics, does not want trouble with the head of the State.
In his last forum in Reason, Feijóo said that his party will celebrate a “fundamental political period.” And the king? “The coronation of Don Juan Carlos is the transition and the Constitution. I have not excluded anyone from the transition,” to which he added: “How am I going to exclude the king who was a key piece in the transition, in the Constitution and in the coup of 23-F? With their lights and their shadows, why are the shadows to turn off all the lights? ”. In Genoa they point out: there will be no exprofesic acts to remember his coronation.