The former Vice President of the Government Carmen Calvo broke yesterday the caution imposed in the socialist sector of the Executive, and in the direction of the PSOE, before the return of Juan Carlos to Spain. Calvo, who currently chairs the Equality Commission of Congress, did so with an ironic tweet, in the face of the heat wave that Spain is suffering: "Today temperatures are rising throughout the country, great embarrassment in Sanxenxo," warned the former vice president.
The irony did not hide, but rather amplified the echo of the irritation that also exists within the PSOE with the public exposure and "lack of discretion" of the emeritus, and the damage they consider it to Felipe VI, without offering any explanation or assuming responsibilities for alleged financial management that the Prosecutor's Office recognized as suspicious, although not prosecutable due to its inviolability. "He is giving the country and the head of state a pulse," warn socialist leaders about Juan Carlos's attitude on his return to Spain.
“And the right, with great tolerance for corruption, playing along with it. What constitutionalists are done”, denounce socialist voices. And they warn that the effusive welcome that the Popular Party provides for Juan Carlos only seeks to add more elements of destabilization to the Government.
In the Moncloa they are attending with a mixture of perplexity and resignation to the "show" and the "exhibition", with great media coverage, which some socialist voices consider that the former head of state is starring since he landed last Thursday in Vigo and now in Sanxenxo.
But the script set by Pedro Sánchez, to try to preserve the figure of Felipe VI and the monarchical institution, is limited to warning that the emeritus must explain to the public, for the alleged tax fraud committed with his fortune abroad, and to highlight "the path of exemplary and transparency" along which the current head of state is now advancing. In addition to distancing himself from any decision in this regard: "It is a private trip, the Government does not participate or have anything to do with it," they settle in Moncloa.
These are the arguments to which the socialist ministers cling in the Government, and in the direction of the PSOE, since the first return to Spain of the emeritus was announced after two years of residence in Abu Dhabi while waiting for the justice to file investigations into possible tax irregularities. And that yesterday they wielded again, while Juan Carlos took a bath in crowds in Sanxenxo.
"The Government is absolutely respectful of the decisions of the emeritus king, which we frame in the personal sphere," reiterated the spokesperson for the Executive, Isabel Rodríguez. "The public would like to receive explanations of everything that has happened," insisted the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop. Clarifications that the head of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, also demanded, after admitting that the return of the king emeritus is generating "certain concern".
However, despite the script imposed on the PSOE so as not to add fuel to the fire due to the return of the emeritus, in the face of an already heated political scene, other socialist deputies are also making their criticisms heard. “The arrival of the emeritus supposes a contempt for democracy,” warned Odón Elorza. And the deputy Daniel Viondi described as "exaltation of patriotic corruption" both the "applause for the emeritus in Sanxenxo" and the praise that José Luis Martínez Almeida dedicated to Esperanza Aguirre at the PP congress in Madrid.
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