José Bono: "I think the Spanish deserve a few words of explanation from Don Juan Carlos"

• The book The CNI hid the king, for four years, who was spying on the 'dangerous' Corinna

"I would like it if [Juan Carlos I] could give explanations of everything that is accused of him, I would love for him to do so", said this Thursday the former socialist minister

during the presentation of the book

, where the journalist

, specialized in espionage matters, addresses the relations of the monarchy with the Spanish secret services during the last 50 years.

"I think the Spanish deserve a few words of explanation," added the socialist politician, who presented the book with Rueda and was responsible for the

National Intelligence Center (CNI) during his time as Minister of Defense (2004-06).

"I do not wish him any harm in the evening of his life, I would like him not to suffer what we all think is evident that he is suffering," he said, "but it is true that his son has renounced his inheritance and this inheritance has its importance, especially in an institution in which inheritance functions not only to inherit a checking account, but to inherit a head of state ".

"Juan Carlos is human, he has been human, his

are perhaps the most striking, for me they are the most excusable, if they are sins," Bono has pronounced on the personal life of the emeritus monarch.

The book, published by La Esfera de los Libros, and of which Bono has said that as far as he knows "conforms to the truth with some nuance", tells how Juan Carlos de Borbón, after being spied on during the Franco regime, He has always made a special effort to ensure that the director of the intelligence services is a person of his utmost confidence.

The two interests of the King

"I fully agree with Fernando [Rueda] that the King had two very clear interests: the CNI, he liked that matters related to the CNI were dispatched with him, and the Army," Bono has endorsed the monarch's zeal with the services of intelligence.

Rueda has attributed a relevant role to the former socialist minister in changing the dynamics of the election of the directors of the intelligence services, always appointed on the recommendation of the King.

Thus, Bono opposed the monarch's candidate, who wanted to keep

in office.

"It was the Defense Minister, José Bono, who resolutely refused. He knew the power and influence that the CNI provided and wanted someone trustworthy in the position linked to him, not the King. He stood firm in the face of pressure from from the palace of La Zarzuela and carried out the candidacy of

", the book reads.

Bono himself told this Thursday how the King emeritus summoned him in La Zarzuela as soon as he was appointed to the head of Defense.

"I'm calling you because what I want is for you to leave Dezcallar as director of the CNI," he said.

"From then on we had a large level of discrepancy," explained Bono, who added that Don Juan Carlos called his "socialist friends" and the president to try to influence his decision.

"Should the King return?"

Bono convinced José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero that Saiz was the ideal candidate to try to end ETA.

"We should work, President, so that these sons of bitches of satan curse the day they joined the terrorist gang," he told him.

Despite this battle for this appointment, the current King Emeritus, the author of the book has assured, "he has always had the loyalty of all directors, including Alberto Saiz, a bomb-proof loyalty."

"Should the King return? If I were from his family, I would say that he thinks about it in terms of what is best for his family. For the rest, I am not the one to give him advice," Bono said about the situation. current don Juan Carlos.

"The story ends up stripping the kings and queens," he added.

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