The rudeness organized by the President of the Generalitat,

Pere Aragonès

, to the King during his visit to the inauguration of the days of the Círculo de Ecomomía in Barcelona has been half-done. After the independence leader, along with the mayor,

Ada Colau

, avoided being at the arrival of

Felipe VI

to the Hotel W where the forum is held, pressure from the business sectors, who did not want to offer an image of institutional division in this A key moment for reconstruction after the pandemic, has forced Aragonès and Colau to agree to be photographed and greet the Monarch.

It was a small and hasty formal gesture, thanks to pressure from

Javier Faus

, president of the Círculo de Economía, and coinciding with the arrival of the president of South Korea,

Moon Jae-In

, who in the photograph has placed himself between the King and Aragonese. As a representative of the Government. the Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño. In fact, the presence of the Korean president served the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to pressure Aragonès this morning to be present at least upon arrival, reminding him that he was in the framework of a state visit to Spain.

"In a state visit as important as that of the Korean president to Barcelona, ​​the first to be held since the pandemic, it would be good and desirable for all public institutions to be represented," was the notice launched by Sánchez during his conference. press together with the president of the European Commission. Ursula Von der Leyen.

The sum of the pressure from Moncloa and the businessmen has led to a greeting between the King and Aragonès that, according to several face-to-face sources, has been cordial but cold, especially from the independence leader, with a disgruntled gesture, and who has maintained his refusal to be present at the opening dinner, in which, after being received with applause and displays of affection for those present, the head of state intervened. Without Aragonès, the representation of the Generalitat has been headed by the Minister of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà, and the Minister of Foreign Action, Victòria Alsina. Still two unknown in the Catalan public debate.

But as on other occasions, the King has chosen to rise from the pro-independence chapapote, as well as from the political struggle for pardons, to offer a speech calling for institutional collaboration between Catalonia and the whole of Spain.

Thus, Don Felipe has shown his support for "all the initiatives that result in our economy and therefore in the well-being of our citizens."

"It is from the confluence and collaboration of these three vertices, business, economic and political, where we can approach with greater possibilities of success the great collective enterprise that we have ahead", he remarked.

For his part, Faus, who hours before had defended the pardons to the leaders of the 2017 coup, has advocated recovering a climate of "concord", which would allow "great pacts and institutional coordination."

This will require, he pointed out in a speech in full harmony with that of the Prime Minister,

Pedro Sánchez

, "dialogue and resignations by all."

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