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    Pablo Echenique, on his future in politics: "It won't take me long to return to my profession"

Pablo Echenique

,

in an interview with

Infolibre

, explained his controversial non-formal greeting to the Royal Family during the opening ceremony of the current legislature in Congress, which the Kings and their daughters attended in February 2020. An event which was considered a lack of respect for the crown, but

according to the politician himself it was almost an accident

...

During this act it is customary for all parliamentarians to formally greet the Kings in the traditional hand kissing. Echenique, in his interview, says that he advised "Royal House protocol" that he could not shake hands with the King,

due to his disability and the wheelchair he drives

. "I wanted to prevent him from immediately extending his hand to me and making me look ugly. So the King was warned and that is why he did not make the gesture," he points out.

The problem came when the Queen, also aware of the situation, replaced the greeting with her hand with an affectionate gesture: "The Queen made a gesture of affection to me, she grabbed me a little by the east arm, with which I handle the chair. And then the lever was activated forward,

the chair sped up...

" And what could have been an accident happened, but fortunately it remained an anecdote: "The Princess and the Infanta were next to

me

.

I almost carried them away and ran them over

."

His wheelchair, he clarifies,

can reach "13 kilometers per hour"

.

"

I overtake

people by

jogging

. Before, I did not take taxis, I would cross the city in the saddle and even timed my trips, to improve myself. The days that I beat my own record were a rush. Apotheosis", he comments with a sense of humor Echenique.

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