The trip: the Government does now allow the King to go to Barcelona
Protests The CDRs 'guillotine' the King but point towards the pro-independence parties
The veto The Government ensures that it vetoed the presence of the King in Barcelona due to the proximity of the Torra ruling and the 1-O
Barcelona, once the disqualification of Quim Torra, already former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, and after 1-O is known, is another city.
This is how the Government considers it, which two weeks ago vetoed the presence of the King in the most important judicial act held in Catalonia, but now it allows him to attend this Friday the awards ceremony of the new edition of the
Barcelona New Economic Week
. He will do it in the company of Pedro Sánchez, in an improvised trip through Moncloa, which involves
place the monarch in one of the fiefdoms in the hands of the
PSC
The presence of the King in Barcelona caught everyone by surprise.
It was not foreseen in the official agency that the Royal House communicated last Friday, and in the event calendar late on Monday it did not even appear, the organizers did not expect it.
They extended an invitation to La Moncloa, without great expectations, and found that the Government transferred the invitation to La Zarzuela, so that both institutions announced the presence of the
Philip VI
and the President of the Government at the appointment.
This Monday, the informative coverage of his attendance was not even specified, "conditioned by health reasons."
Government oversight
In the same way that the Government emphasizes that the assistance of the King in Barcelona to the delivery of the dispatches of new judges was not foreseen in the official Zarzuela agenda, this time the same thing happens: it was not collected or communicated as yes other acts of the King were done.
The last planned act was this Wednesday afternoon, the opening of the academic year of the Royal Academies.
Thursday and Friday remained clear for the monarch.
That is to say, the trip to Barcelona was not closed on the agenda, according to the sources consulted.The acts of the monarch are endorsed by the Executive as stated in the Constitution, and both the presence in an act and the words he speaks are supervised and coordinated with the Government, with whom, in general, everything is agreed. Moreover, in their presence or displacement the last word is usually from the Executive.
Thus, it seems clear that Moncloa has wanted, now, the photo of the King in Barcelona, but also with Sánchez, a staging that would seek to reduce the manifest tension between both institutions, fueled by the last veto -the King, According to judicial sources, he expressed his wish to have attended the event in a
phone call
to
Carlos Lesmes
-.
An absence that was not only harshly criticized by the opposition, but also by the Judiciary, who made their discomfort public through Lesmes, president of the
General Council of the Judiciary.
PSC presence
The Barcelona New Economic Week (BNEW) is organized by the Barcelona Free Zone Consortium, a public entity whose task is to manage the Free Zone Industrial Estate and its Customs Free Zone, as well as the administration of its assets and promote the international projection of Barcelona, Catalonia and Spain in the fair, logistics and real estate sectors. The special delegate of the State in the Consortium of the Free Zone of Barcelona is
Pere Navarro
, of the PSC.
A position that the Government appoints and that in the case of Navarro was decided by the Council of Ministers in June 2018, shortly after Sánchez arrived in La Moncloa.The Government's position is that the presence of the King in the past was not considered appropriate September 25 for the imminent
judgment
on the disqualification of the Catalan president,
Quim Torra
, and under the intention of "ensuring coexistence" in Catalonia, but now, as stated
Juan Carlos Campo
, Minister of Justice, "it is no longer October 1, the sentence has been handed down ... it is an obligation of the rulers to twitch less". The BNEW is presented with the aim of promoting economic recovery and positioning Barcelona as capital of the new economy, but it will also serve as a showcase for the PSC, at a time when Catalonia is already in pre-electoral mode after Torra's disqualification.
Four mayors and the CDRs
And it is that, in addition to the presence of Sánchez, four former mayors of Barcelona -
Joan Clos
,
Jordi Hereu
,
Xavier Trias
Y
Narcís Serra
-, will participate in the panel
Barcelona, a resilient city
.
Of them, all except Trias, are prominent references of the PSC. If the Government considered that the presence of the King a few days ago in Barcelona could entail a risk to his safety, the displacement planned for this Friday will also be surrounded by some tension.
Committees for the Defense of the Republic
(
CDR
) have already called for actions to welcome both the King and Sánchez.
Under the motto
You are not welcome
, they have called to express in the street their rejection of the presence of both. "This Friday the leader of the Regime of 78, Felipe de Borbón, disembarks in Barcelona together with Pedro Sánchez. The CDRs will be in the street to remind him that he is not welcome And you will stay at home? ", Is his calling.
Aquest divendres the head of the Règim of 78, Felip de Borbó, disembarks in Barcelona jointly with Pedro
@sanchezcastejon
.
Els
@CDRCatOficial
Serem al carrer to remember-li that is not benvingut
I you and you will stay home
#Sentencing
# CatalunyaNoTéRei
#FocAlBorbó
pic.twitter.com/Dn1KpAAYyx
- CDR_Barcelonès #RevoltaPopular (@CDR_Barcelones)
October 5, 2020
Precisely, the CDR placed this Saturday in Barcelona a
guillotine
cardboard with a pig's head and a photo of King Felipe VI.
"Neither forget nor forgive", could be read in the improvised device in reference to the speech that the head of state made three years ago after the illegal referendum of October 1.
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