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The new proposal of United We Can to investigate the business of Juan Carlos I has found, once again, the refusal of the lawyers of the Congress, who recommend that the political groups that make up the Chamber Table not accept their creation. This is reflected in their latest report, where they allege that the "prerogatives of inviolability and non-liability, enshrined in article 56.3 of the Constitution, are absolute, cover the entire period in which the Head of State is exercised and have effects permanent legal ". The Supreme Court Prosecutor's Office recently undertook the investigation of the AVE commissions to Mecca where Juan Carlos de Borbón is affected.

Thus, and as expected, the purple formation initiative, which had the backing of all the parties that supported the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, will have no further journey. The key vote was that of the PSOE, which has always refused to investigate the former Head of State for four decades, based on the reports of the lawyers. The new ruling allows socialists to hold onto it to vote against.

To try to circumvent the refusal of the lawyers, United We Can raised an investigation that did not revolve around Juan Carlos I, but they dressed it as a commission of general interest by presenting as its object "diplomatic and commercial relations between Spain and Arabia Saudi , its link with Spanish institutions and companies and its effects on the public purse. " They also opted to investigate what happened after the abdication of the current father of the King, trying to haggle inviolability.

However, for the lawyers of the Congress, it concludes that the application of Unidos Podemos "refers to issues that, even though they may have been projected at a later stage, correspond without continuity solution, with the period of time in which their Majesty Don Juan Carlos I was the Head of the State and they bring about the same fact of the occupation of said Headquarters by that one, so that it is possible to understand that to try an investigation on the same would come to empty of content the constitutional prerogatives of the Head of the State , that unfold their effects permanently ", indicates a letter advanced by El Confidencial and to which this newspaper has had access.

Upset at United We Can

The lawyers describe the United We Can initiative as "generic and abstract" and point out that the facts to be investigated "even though they may have a projection at a later stage, would correspond, without continuity solution, to the period of time in which His Majesty the King Don Juan Carlos I was the Head of the State and they are the cause of the same fact of the occupation of said Headquarters by that one, being thus that to try a parliamentary investigation on the same would come to empty of content the constitutional prerogatives of the Head of the State that their effects permanently. "

The decision has caused unrest at United We Can. Its parliamentary spokesman, Pablo Echenique , has indicated that "it seems that the inviolability of 56.3 is eternal, against the criteria of the Prosecutor's Office and the reform of the LOPJ of 2014." And he has added, without giving specific names, that "they increasingly need more sophisticated and weaker arguments to continue protecting the Royal Household and continue to put it above the law. We, of course, will continue to try. Our democracy will not you can afford to look the other way. "

In this sense, the lawyers of the Congress expose that "the only thing of which there is evidence is the assumption by the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of the investigation derived from Investigation Proceedings nº 38/2020, taking into account the deterioration of D Juan Carlos de Borbón before said Court This decision of the Office of the Prosecutor has a simple internal character of work order, but does not imply any pronouncement on the merits or form of the matter, neither of the Public Prosecutor nor, even less, of any organ jurisdictional".

Thus, the lawyers, unlike Unidas Podemos, consider that "said decision, of a pre-procedural nature, does not modify the existing situation in relation to this case at the time the previous request for the creation of a Commission of Inquiry regarding the plot linked to the alleged illegalities committed by members of the Royal Household and the political, diplomatic and commercial influences with Saudi Arabia. "

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