The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, traveling in Brussels until today, Friday, compared the situation of Juan Carlos I and that of Carles Puigdemont. One can return whenever he wants, the other cannot set foot in Spain without being arrested, he maintained.
The comparison compiled by Aragonès –which will surely make some people's hair stand on end– shows that the presence of the old king in Spain will not be peaceful and that everyone will turn the sail of the Sanxenxo regatta as they see fit.
The Government, compromised between its institutional duty and its progressive roots, can only wait for it to subside and in the meantime treat the visit to Galicia as a family matter.
Pilar Llop, the Minister of Justice, literally said: "The arrival of the King Emeritus is a matter that concerns the Royal House and, therefore, the Government has nothing to say." All this without forgetting that Juan Carlos is a key political figure in the history of Spain and owes one explanation, another, to the country that he ruled until the abdication of June 2014. According to what Llop reiterated yesterday, without haste . But one day “citizens would like” to hear them.
Yesterday, but impatiently, the left of the left also demanded explanations from the former king of Spain. In the meantime, they say, "we will continue fighting" for the advent of the republic.
Nothing to do with what was heard from the mouth of the Popular Party, which for days has been trying to turn the emeritus's visit into definitive proof that, unlike Sánchez's PSOE, they are indeed a party with a state vocation unwavering.
"There is no institution that will let this government live," reproached Cuca Gamarra, the party's spokeswoman, in light of the moderate and angry criticism from the different components of the Executive.
"The PP recognizes the role that the emeritus has played in the history of democracy and, in what affects his private life, it is he who has to decide his decisions," Gamarra settled when asked if Juan Carlos I should give account of their actions before the company, in statements collected by Servimedia.
The Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, was yesterday by chance in Galicia. The visit had nothing to do with that of the emeritus. In fact, at 7:00 p.m., landing time in Vigo, she participated in a meeting with the mayor of A Coruña, whose name is Inés Rey.
However, in the morning, at the Government Delegation, he accompanied the delegate in the region, José Miñones, when he detailed the police deployment that will accompany the emeritus on these days off. Security, said the minister, is guaranteed "as in any other event."
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