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Pedro Sánchez has avoided speaking out against the attacks carried out by his partners in the Podemos government against the King Emeritus just one year after his departure from

Spain

. The president of the Executive has remained silent before the volleys of the

purple

formation

. And he did not do it on any stage, but in the

Marivent

gardens

, the summer palace of the Kings of Spain, where this morning he dispatched with Felipe VI for forty minutes.

When asked about the words expressed today by Minister Ione Belarra (Podemos), who has described the departure of Juan Carlos I as "unworthy" and "democratic anomaly", Sánchez did not want to enter to assess them and has limited himself to repeating in Two occasions that his Government "is committed to each and every one of the constitutional institutions", praising and "valuing very positively" the transformation "in favor of transparency and the updating of the Crown" that Felipe VI is carrying out.

"I am pleased that he is committed to updating the Royal House," he added.

In their meeting, the monarch and Sánchez have not addressed this issue.

Date marked on the calendar

The appointment between the President of the Government and the Head of State in the Mallorcan palace is a date marked annually on the calendar.

All presidents attend their appointment with the monarch in the first days of August.

Not even the pandemic in 2020 or the lumbago attack that Mariano Rajoy suffered in 2017 have aborted this summit, which is usually more relaxed than other institutional meetings.

Normally it symbolically marks the end of the political course, although this year comes in a week that has been especially intense for the Government, with the tense summit of regional presidents last weekend and the bilateral meeting between the Executive of Sánchez and a delegation of the Generalitat this Monday.

The absence of the Catalan president from the autonomy summit held last Friday in

Salamanca

and the interregional struggle for European funds has inflamed political activity. Returning to the debate the imbalance between territories and Sánchez's concessions to

Catalonia

, turning that bilateral summit into one of the first milestones in the new stage inaugurated by the Executive of the PSOE after the granting of the pardons of the

procés

at the end of June.

This Monday, within the framework of those meetings with Catalonia outside of the rest of the territories, the Government announced a surprise investment of 1,700 million euros to expand the El

Prat

airport

in

Barcelona

.

Despite this and four other concessions, the Government of Pere Aragonès continues to consider the transfers to Catalonia insufficient, demanding the holding of the referendum and the amnesty of the convicted politicians.

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