Leonor solemnizes the continuity of the Crown on the same day that Sánchez’s in the Government is taken for granted

2023-10-31 23:56:13

There is more distance between official Spain and social Spain than the width of the security and isolation perimeter that was set up for the occasion. Leonor, the first-born daughter of Felipe VI, was turning 18 and, as mandated by the Constitution, she had to submit to her before the Cortes Generales. This Tuesday, the Carrera de San Jerónimo was blocked by the Security Forces in such a way that, three hours before, there was no way to access the Congress of Deputies. But not to any building that was in the surrounding area. No medical services, no banks, no shops… Getting to work was an odyssey for thousands of Madrid residents, oblivious to the pomp and pageantry of a solemn and historic day and which, surely, if it weren’t for the shower of banners that hung the mayor of Madrid on the streetlights with the face of the heir to the Crown, many would not have even noticed.

It was a working day like any other and while official Spain awaited the arrival of the Royal Family to Congress, social Spain lived oblivious to the mandate of article 61.2 of the Magna Carta and all the liturgy that accompanies it. The three powers of the State (Executive, Judicial and Legislative), representatives of the three Armies, the regional presidents with the exception of those of the Basque Country, Catalonia and Cantabria, former presidents of the Government, former presidents of the Congress and the Senate…