King Juan Carlos will arrive in Spain tonight on his first trip to the country since he decided to leave on August 3, 2020 harassed by irregularities in his personal finances. A few hours after his return, the Government insists on demanding explanations from the King Emeritus while trying to build a retaining wall with respect to his son, King Felipe VI.
The last to do so have been the First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño, and the Second Vice President and Minister of Labour, Yolanda Díaz.
"All Spanish citizens deserve an explanation," Calviño pointed out in La Ser in the face of what he described as "very disturbing information for citizens" in recent years. The vice president has insisted that she "without a doubt" would have to explain to all citizens because it is a "very important" issue.
Asked about whether progress should be made in the Crown Law, she assured that the Executive "is making progress in this area" and a rule has been adopted to "increase and reinforce the transparency of the King's House". The vice president has pointed out that "this is going in the right direction" and that she knows that the current King "is very committed to improving governance and the image of the Crown". "I think that the work that Felipe VI is doing is very good. He is really doing a public service that brings a lot of added value to our country and we must continue along that line", she has settled.
Yolanda Díaz has been even tougher. "I don't care where the king is," said the second vice president, alluding to Juan Carlos I to make his republican position clear. But she has challenged the former head of state to "be accountable to the Spanish men and women."
In similar terms, the first secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa, has pronounced himself, who has opined that the king emeritus "has pending explanations to give to Spanish citizens."
For his part, the Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, lamented that the King Emeritus continues "protecting himself on his inviolability" to continue carrying out "an exercise in haggling with justice".
Urkullu, in statements to the media upon his arrival at the Basque Parliament, lamented, in reference to the fact that some of the investigations have been closed due to the inviolability of Juan Carlos I as king, that "the problem is that in inviolability, here there has been and continues to be an exercise in haggling with Justice".
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