The Spanish wonder why the King will not be in Barcelona today.
Why the head of state cannot go to the most important city in Spain after its capital.
Why
the Government adduces security reasons to veto their presence
in the traditional delivery of dispatches of the 69th class of judges in the judicial school.
It should be remembered that justice - and pardon - is administered in the name of the King, and in the Catalonia of the
Procés
that symbolic circumstance acquires special relevance
valence.
Minister Campo's argument that they do it to protect him is one of
atrocious cynicism
: it will be to protect Sánchez from the pro-independence anger.
If it is true that the Government cannot guarantee the security of the Head of State in a part of the national territory, the Government is a failure.
The alternative to that excuse, more likely, is that Sánchez has vetoed the presence of Felipe VI in Catalonia
to please the partners on whom his power depends.
Since he came to power with the help of the parties promoting the coup, Sánchez has lavished gestures of neglect to the King.
From avoiding Felipe VI's foreign agenda in order to put his own international projection before the controversial trip to Cuba in full investiture negotiation with Podemos and separatism,
It seems obvious that Sánchez finds an obstacle to the deployment of his hegemony in the author of the exemplary speech of October 3, 2017
, which activated the State's response to an unprecedented constitutional aggression since 23-F.
There is in Sánchez an insurmountable contradiction between his allies, confessed enemies of the unity of the nation, and the King, a symbol of its historical continuity.
The most scandalous thing is that, in order to ensure his power, he ends up opting for the former.While in public he emphasizes the commitment of the PSOE to the Crown, by way of the facts
Sánchez assumes with increasing self-confidence the disruptive way of his vice president
, who A few days ago he set the destruction of the parliamentary monarchy as a priority objective of Podemos, the government party.
The president knows that the King cannot defend himself and that his speeches and agenda are subject to the approval of Moncloa.
And he has not minded exercising that prerogative to veto him out of short-term political interest.
The indignant reaction of Carlos Lesmes and other members of the CGPJ contributes a
courageous and legitimate resistance
to an uncouth outrage, and deepens the gap within the Justice encouraged by the Executive to annul its main counter-power. In case the Royal House had doubts We insist: the King must step on
Catalonia as
many times as necessary
.
To assume the disloyal and cowardly discourse by which the displacement of the head of State to Catalonia constitutes a provocation is as much as abandoning the cause of constitutionalism where it is most threatened and exposing the King to institutional humiliation.
Felipe VI must go to Catalonia not despite but precisely because of that speech
, which is already in the annals of the defense of the democratic freedoms of the Spanish.
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