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The Executive encourages the idea that Felipe VI will address his father's judicial and fiscal problems in his Christmas Eve speech.

At least that is what the government would like.

The first vice president, Carmen Calvo, who on Thursday shared with the King the inauguration of the exhibition on

Manuel Azaña

at the National Library and later the meeting of the Board of the Pro RAE Foundation, pointed out this Friday in this line in

La Sexta.

Calvo considers to the King a "royalist" head of state and that "s

I heard what the public opinion of this country thinks and what the citizens demand, "she said, referring to whether she will take advantage of her speech to the Spanish on December 24 to discuss this issue." I am absolutely convinced that she is going to launch the message that now corresponds to rigor and tranquility, "he added. The second vice president of the Government is precisely the one who, on the part of the Executive, is in charge of giving the go-ahead to the royal discourse." It is logical, "he said, about this prior control. Although both in his department and in the environment of the President of the Government,

Pedro Sanchez

, are silent on this matter and indicate that "they cannot comment", Calvo spoke as if he was already aware of Felipe VI's intentions and even joked that the production process should not be "gutted".

"All Spaniards are going to be able to see him explicitly when he speaks," he said.

The support of Sánchez and the PSOE

He is a head of state, he continued, who is "very in tune with the moment in which he has lived, he made very important decisions to renew the institution upon arrival and in that sense he is aware that we are all obliged to move sincere tranquility and security, about how our political system works, even going through a time as complicated as this one. "In the absence of listening to the King's message on Christmas Eve, the Executive assumes that there will be allusions to the emeritus monarch,

Juan Carlos I

.

Felipe VI has always had the support of Sánchez and the socialist wing of the Government in their attempts to distance themselves from the scandals that affect his father.In recent weeks the president has repeated that people are one thing, referring to Juan Carlos I, and another the institution, and has insisted on supporting the monarchical system, the latter to compensate for the volleys of its partners in

United we can

.

They have not publicly entered the debate on whether or not the former monarch could return to Spain after his

fiscal regularization

, always saying that the only valid position is that of Zarzuela. And they officially maintain that all initiatives on Crown regulation or reform to link the inviolability of the King only to the exercise of his office will be addressed if previously requested by the Royal House.

The 'opportunity' of Felipe VI

But they do believe that the future of the monarch and the institution depends on their ability to distance themselves from the actions of their father -the

gifts

of entrepreneurs of uncertain origin and the money that has kept the Spanish Treasury hidden- and of modernizing and making the Crown more transparent.Although King Felipe VI already took the historic step of repudiating his father, last March,

giving up

to his hidden inheritance and withdrawing the budget allocation, in many areas his Christmas message is seen as an opportunity to deepen this estrangement.

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