A country can function badly with a government that only succeeds when it rectifies.
To the already long history of contradictions and self-amendments that characterizes the management of
Pedro Sánchez,
we now add the announcement that the King, together with the president,
will travel to Barcelona this Friday to preside over the awards ceremony
.
It will do so less than two weeks after Moncloa vetoed
Don Felipe's
attendance
at the delivery of dispatches to the new judges in Barcelona.
Welcome be correction
that the Executive applies to himself after so many samples of docility to the independence movement snubbing the Head of State and reducing his presence in Catalonia, which is shameful.
Now, no one is aware that we are before
an image maneuver with which Moncloa intends to staunch the political erosion that the socialist part of the Government has caused the King's denial
In a disturbing display of impunity and institutional disloyalty incompatible with the position of Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez has already given
not a few signs of contempt for the royal functions
and by the highest magistracy of the nation, embodied by Don Felipe.
He has tried to supplant him on more than one occasion, which constitutes an undemocratic and
deliberate invasion of the head of government in the sphere of responsibility that is proper to the head of state
.
The first few times it was free for Sánchez.
But the recent veto in the solemn act of the Judiciary, which the Head of State had never absent in two decades, has been so scandalous and has deserved such condemnation from public opinion that the Government is now trying to back down when the damage has already been done.
The Spanish have clearly perceived the umpteenth transfer to the independentists, admitted by the same Minister of Justice when he recognized that the King had been prohibited from going to Barcelona for fear that his presence would be an obstacle to coexistence after the
sentence of disqualification to Torra and in the middle of the anniversary of 1-O
.
Strong criticism of the government had not come only from the opposition parties but also from important PSOE figures such as the former president
Felipe Gonzalez
, who did not hesitate to expose Sánchez by remarking an obvious point: that the performance of Felipe VI has always been exquisitely neutral, without leaving an iota of his constitutional mandate, but the return of the King to Catalonia this Friday, with the controversy as Backdrop, keeps showing unfortunately
little respect from Moncloa to Zarzuela
.
Because transferring the feeling that the Government vetoes and ceases to veto at its whim and convenience the steps of the King -with an intolerable abuse of the figure of the forced endorsement of the acts of the Monarch-, and the fact that Sánchez decides to accompany him in a event in which the two would rarely coincide, projects
an image of guardianship over the Head of State
that it does not benefit him at all, when the Crown is characterized by its neutrality, integrating capacity and absolute independence.
The Casa del Rey has its agenda and the necessary institutional collaboration goes through a real loyalty of the Government
, which still does not appear in this half rectification.
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