Felipe VI has transmitted in a brave speech
a message of "hope" and "serenity" in "times of uncertainty"
marked by political polarization.
And he has done it from the confidence in our society as the protagonist of an enormous transformation throughout four and a half decades in which the Constitution has been the foundation of coexistence and progress, and of the "union" against the "division".
Clearly, when the independence movement has recovered its demand for a r
emboldened by the transfers of the Government, the Monarch has warned that
«We Spaniards have to continue deciding our destiny, our future together»
.
Again, as in October 2017, the Crown once again stands in its role of arbitration and moderation as
a firm bulwark of the unity of Spain and harmony, constitutional order and the principles of political liberalism
against the populist landslides that seek to dissolve the State by weakening the basic counterweights.
The King issued a warning at a time of serious crisis derived from the institutional clash: democracy faces a series of risks that could undermine it.
And he listed them: "The division", the "deterioration of coexistence" and the "institutional erosion"
.
Against these diseases of the democratic body -and after a few weeks in which the Constitutional Court has stopped the maneuver of the Executive to carry out without debate an express reform of the constitutional bodies-, he prescribed the need to "strengthen our institutions."
Felipe VI structured his speech in three axes.
First,
the Ukrainian War, which has caused the biggest security crisis in Europe
since World War II.
Second,
the threat of recession
dragged down by a conflict that has caused harsh energy cuts.
And third, and mainly, the political confrontation
, against which he claimed "an exercise of responsibility" and a reflection on the consequences of ignoring the risks that hang over a democracy "that cannot be taken for granted" 45 years after the approval of our Magna Carta.
It is in this last part that he concentrated the deepest political content of his speech, which can only be interpreted as a call to put an end to Cainism and to recover the great consensus that underlies the letter of the Constitution:
«A country or a divided or confronted society does not advance, it does not progress or solve its problems well [...].
Division makes democracies more fragile;
the union, quite the contrary, strengthens them ».
The King placed at the heart of his message the appeal to the European institutions - "we are Europe, but we also need Europe" - and concluded by connecting with the citizen emotion that calls for "serenity, peace and tranquility".
Again, in times of uncertainty, we have the Crown.
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