Fresh money: Juan Carlos I's return plan: a temporary return without resuming tax residence in Spain
Justice: King Juan Carlos pays 4.4 million to the Treasury with loans from friends
Devastating.
With this word the majority of personalities of the entire ideological arc coincide, from the most extreme to the most moderate positions, consulted by this newspaper, when they define the situation that has generated the news of the second fiscal regularization of Juan Carlos I. «Explosive »Is the second definition they are considering.
"Dangerous" is the third.
Practically no one thinks it advisable for the father to return to
Spain
;
practically everyone thinks that the "unfair stain"
has spread on the child will be difficult to clean.
And no one looks kindly on one
imminent return
, as suggested, for a few days of recess.
King
he is very upset.
He battles against the perfect storm because he is the son and the head of the state.
The pressure is tremendous, ”explains a former minister who, due to his successive positions, has always maintained close contact with
The Zarzuela
.
«Juan Carlos wants to return, he is in a golden cage, but alone;
here there would be a queue to visit him.
However, it would be terrible for him to return.
The Crown is very touched and its presence would be a reminder, for some, of shamelessness and, for others, of crime.
It would be very difficult even for the average Spaniard to metabolize it.
His return is not reasonable even when he tries to force it. ”The impression, if not the conviction, that the King Emeritus has proceeded to a new regularization of his debt with the
tax authorities
Spanish to clean her image and be able to return floats insistently in the environment.
«He thinks that after acknowledging and paying he cannot be considered a criminal.
He believes that with this he has already complied with the settlement and it is not true ". For all those contacted it is evident that Juan Carlos de Borbón" is not the common man of mortals. "
He has been the King, with privileges and servitudes, for the good and also for the bad, and although the written laws treat him like the rest, the ethical and moral laws demand much more of him.
Settling the account with the Treasury may settle the problem with the Justice, but another thing is to reconcile with the citizens who loved him and whom he has defrauded.
If the monarchy falls, the republic will not come, but many little republics
He was the visible head of the parliamentary monarchy and of Spanish democracy for almost 40 years and that is why his mistakes now take their toll on the institution.
Is it possible to regain prestige?
The sources consulted believe that it is a difficult but not impossible task: “The monarchy as a form of government is the best.
If it falls, what would happen would not be the republic, but many republiquitas », he argues, paraphrasing
Felipe Gonzalez
an old school socialist.
«The secession of
Catalonia
», He adds,« it would be predictably served ».
“The only hope,” he continues, “is that nothing else comes out that affects even minimally the child.
That would be cause for a sudden fall.
The situation is extremely delicate. "" It is now essential to know if the Emeritus has regularized everything, "reflects, from the ranks of the Social Democracy, a senior official who has held very relevant positions in the
Presidency of the Government
.
«There is nothing worse than doing it in pieces, generating a succession of crises.
If everything happened in one go, the rejection would focus on the father and, by contrast, the positive perception could benefit the son.
That, of course, if there is nothing that directly implicates him. »Doubt remains, fed by the memory of the third name, that of
Philip VI
, who appeared as the beneficiary of an opaque inheritance in the papers of the
Lucum foundation
.
The king
signed his resignation before a notary
preventive to a poisoned legacy. From the right they share this vision.
From this terrain of the ideological spectrum, they emphasize the fact that the youth, those who were already born in a democracy and are now beginning to occupy positions of power, view the Crown "with detachment and without any implication".
Nothing else should come out that affects even minimally King Felipe VI
«All this coincides with a generational change in the parties.
Many of the new leaders, especially on the left, do not profess any special recognition of Juan Carlos I for his political role in favor of democracy and do not find value in the parliamentary monarchy and Felipe VI.
They believe that they would be perfectly substitutable by a republic and a president ". Also in the ranks of the right, even the most monarchical, they maintain that" the return of the emeritus King is neither possible nor desirable ".
“His legal situation is, to say the least, confusing.
One of the government coalition parties and those who support it would not hesitate to attack him harshly, and even the new
PSOE
could end up adhering, 90 years later, to a new
Pact of San Sebastián
(the agreement, in 1930, of the Spanish republican forces to end the monarchy led by
Alfonso XIII
) », Argues a prestigious jurist with a seat in the
Congress
.
The moment is very delicate.
Anything can happen and all prudence is little
He also believes that the moment is "very delicate" because to the "general knowledge of Juan Carlos' practices" is added "the disappointment of the population after the 2008 crisis and the problem of territorial integrity."
"Anything can happen and all prudence is little," he warns. "Going back for a few days of recreation can be very counterproductive.
Many will see it as a challenge or a mockery, "they point out from the PSOE seats. Only one of the people contacted, a diplomat who has held some of the most important positions of the Spanish representation abroad, thinks that the Emeritus should return and face in Spain "all its responsibilities after the abdication."
"We cannot afford," he says, "more kings living and dying in exile."
"His bad personal example is notable and fuels the destructive will of the anti-establishment, but this cannot make us forget his contribution to democratic history and, of course, the impeccable performance of his successor, Felipe VI." More radical, the prediction is crude and forceful: "Only the death of the father can save the son."
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