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The former Vice President of the Government Alfonso Guerra has rejected the "hunt" that, in his opinion, is being carried out against the Emeritus King Juan Carlos I by some sectors and has charged against the "populists and nationalists" because he considers that they attack to the monarchy to "attack the Constitution."

This is how the historic socialist leader has pronounced himself in an interview on Cadena Ser , collected by Europa Press , about the manifesto that he has signed together with more than 70 former ministers, former regional presidents, ambassadors and other former high-ranking officials in support of the monarch emeritus and defending his presumption of innocence in light of the information that led to his departure from Spain.

In this regard, Alfonso Guerra has defended the legacy of the King Emeritus recalling his role in the Spanish Transition. "The Emeritus King cannot go down in History on the page of events, no matter how important the event may have, he has to go down in History in another way, he cannot throw himself into the dunghill of History," he stressed.

However, he has pointed out that the acts that have led to his departure from Spain are "reprehensible" from the ethical and decorum point of view, but he rejects that he go from there and do "a kind of hunt for the monarch emeritus and the same monarchy. "

Spain, a "crowned republic"

In this sense, Guerra has disfigured the "populists and nationalists" his attacks on the monarchical institution because he considers that they do so to "attack the Constitution", although he has recognized that the decision of Juan Carlos I to leave Spain, far from strengthening the monarchy, "has weakened it."

Regarding the debate between the monarchy and the republic that the decision of the monarch has raised, and that has even reached the heart of the coalition government between the PSOE and United We Can, Alfonso Guerra has asked the left to stop "self-deceiving with the idealization" of the Second Republic.

As he has said, the identification of a monarchy with authoritarianism and a republic with democracy "does not make sense" since in Spain a parliamentary monarchy is established that has "democratic values" and that could be called a "crowned republic", because it fulfills with all the "requirements of the republican program".

The former vice president of the Government has wanted to give a personal opinion on the departure of the King Emeritus and believes that "it has not been done well" in the way in which they have tried to "force" King Felipe VI to take away the capacity of the monarch Juan Carlos I: "That a son repudiates his father are not confidence-generating clues".

The presumption of innocence "has disappeared"

Of course, it has respected the judicial independence on the alleged acts that the Emeritus King would have committed and that have caused his departure from Spain, although it has asked that the presumption of innocence of the monarch be respected.

Guerra considers that the presumption of innocence "has disappeared for everyone" from the existence of social networks, because, as he has said, the conviction is given with the accusation. "Someone accuses you of something and you are already condemned," he added.

The one who was vice president of the Government with Felipe González has celebrated the letter sent by the chief executive, Pedro Sánchez, to the socialist militancy after the departure of Juan Carlos I, but he believes that he sent it because he saw that things "were slipping away from him. hands".

For this reason, Guerra considers that Sánchez "made a correction" by sending the letter, with which he has said that he agrees after realizing that he generated a position "that is not the one that is considered pertinent."

In the letter, Sánchez defended, before the departure of Juan Carlos I, that "all public officials must be held accountable for their conduct without exceptions," although he claimed the parliamentary monarchy against his government partner United We Can.

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