I remember those tense days when the Supreme Court was determined to complain against the Constitutional Court. It would have been a huge scandal. The concern of some serious magistrates and politicians stirred my real ABC office. The King intervened, discreetly, to moderate the tension between the institutions and resolved the problem , in accordance with what the Spanish people demand from the Monarch in article 56 of the Constitution.

There are many parliamentary and presidential republics that work effectively. So do the parliamentary monarchies who have found in the universal suffrage of the centuries neutrality for the Head of State . I affirmed yesterday on the radio that among the politically freer nations in the world, socially more just, economically more developed, culturally more progressive, are the parliamentary monarchies: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, England, Japan, Canada, Australia, Spain ...

Felipe VI is responsible for the exercise of arbitration and moderation between institutions . And strict compliance with the provisions of the Constitution (articles 62 and 99) in the procedure for the election of the President of the Government. If Don Felipe intervened in the internal troubles of political parties, he would make a serious mistake because he would lose neutrality. The 1978 Constitution is the law of laws and derives from the general will of the freely expressed Spanish people. In the middle of the political dust that muddles Spanish life, the King has played his role impeccably. He is a mature, responsible and solidly prepared man. And an effective guarantee for the unity and stability of Spain. As in the rest of the parliamentary monarchies, the King is for the people , not the people for the King. "That reigning is a task," Quevedo wrote, "that scepters ask for more sweat than plows, and sweat stained with veins; that the Crown is the annoying weight that wears the shoulders of the soul first than the forces of the body; that the palaces for the idle prince they are sepulchers of a dead life, and for the one who attends chapters of a living death; this is affirmed by the glorious memories of those enlightened princes who did not stain their memories counting between their crowned age some hour without work. "

Luis María Anson , of the Royal Spanish Academy.

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