• Hispanidad. 12-O pays tribute to the heroes of the Covid between cheers to the King and boos to the Government

The fracture yesterday starred in the institutional act of October 12.

The clash between the central government and that of the

Community of Madrid

;

the attacks on the constitutional pact -monarchy included- from within the Council of Ministers itself;

the partisan war without quarter and the attribution of blame for the blow of the pandemic occupied the

Patio de Armas of the Royal Palace

as one more guest, tense the faces, the greetings and the atmosphere.

A celebration watered down by the absence of the people and the political clashes in which only the figure of the King, "moderator and arbiter of the regular functioning of the institutions," conveyed the message of "unity" that the Constitution entrusts to him.

Felipe VI fulfilled his role to the millimeter.

There was no gesture by the King that differentiated those who accuse him of "maneuvering" against the Executive or being "kidnapped by the right", from those who defend him as an inseparable piece of the 78 constitutional agreement, nor from those who remain silent in the face of the attacks against the Crown.

Not a single gesture was allowed by the Monarch that could convey his opinion, in favor of one or the other, in the turbulent climate that the country is experiencing.

The attitude and the messages of a good part of the political representatives ran in different directions.

It was about making clear one's position on the battlefield of national politics.

Some opted for words and others for gestures.

From the semi-covered signs of the second vice president, Pablo Iglesias, and the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero - with a protest mask the first and a purple outfit the second - in an attempt to remember again that they advocate the republican form of state, to the previous statements by national political leaders and regional leaders fueling the fire of division.

The opportunity offered by the protocol was not even used to smooth things over by stipulating that the President of the Government must wait together with the President of the Community of Madrid and the Mayor of the capital for the arrival of the Kings.

The waiting minutes only served to show a glacial huddle despite the attempt by the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, and the Chief of Defense Staff,

Miguel Ángel Villaroya

, to defuse the meeting.

The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, did not speak to each other beyond the obligatory “how are you;

very good;

I'm glad".

The backs are still high.

The distance that from the first minute the members of the Government and the representatives of the opposition mutually established did not help either.

Not a centimeter shortened the distance between them.

The former, as a group, together with the president's chief of staff,

Iván Redondo

;

the seconds, a few meters further, ready to take their positions in the guest gallery.

No connection or conductive wire.

Before the start of the act, the leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, in a tweet wanted to make clear his support for the King in order to highlight his position against the one shown by part of the Government: «This year, more than ever, it is a pride to be able to say 'long live the King' ».

The President of the Government, also in a message on social networks, chose to call for "unity for the common good" in a "supportive, open and plural" Spain.

The salute line also gave off political reading signals.

The first vice president, Carmen Calvo, in a long conversation, with her back to Pablo Iglesias, with the president of the CGPJ and the Supreme Court,

Carlos Lesmes

.

A matter belongs to both: the renewal of the judicial leadership, whose formula is now trying to change the Government to overcome the blockade of the PP.

Next to it, the second vice president, making his debut on October 12 with a sullen gesture.

His response to the head of state's greeting consisted of a very slight movement of the head that contrasted with the hand on the chest of most of the ministers of the socialist wing.

Iglesias has asked his people to work to end the Monarchy and establish the Republic.

The gestures could not deny him.

A part of the regional presidents also wanted to leave their mark on this atypical and soulless 12-O.

Thus, the Valencian

Ximo Puig

put his grain of sand in the differences between the Government and the Community of Madrid on account of the management of the pandemic.

Puig made a veiled comparison between Catalan identity nationalism and the one he thinks he now perceives in Madrid: "Spain is much more than Madrid," he said.

«The invisible process is as counterproductive as the

Catalan

process

».

"Spain must be a space of coexistence" and "of equality beyond identity essentialism.

Flags, if they don't unite, are useless symbols for coexistence ».

More institutional was the Castilian president of La Mancha,

Emiliano García-Page

, for whom "the debate is not and will not be between the Monarchy and the Republic."

In his opinion, "the real debate is what there can be," he said, "among those of us who are for the constitutional pact, for stability, for loyalty to what the Spanish people decided, for democratic normality, or the They put their political expectations on turning everything upside down.

The Andalusian,

Juanma Moreno

, preferred to target those he considers "cynical", alluding to the ministers of United We Can, who charge against the King but attend the events of the National Holiday.

A celebration that, as usual, did not have the presence of the Catalan and Basque presidents.

Both thus find a way to demonstrate their rejection of the unity of the State and the King as a symbol of it.

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