The elected president, Claudia Sheinbaum, responded to the Spanish Government, which decided not to send a representative to his inauguration on October 1 due to the slight made to the King Felipe VI.
The president assured that she decided not to invite him because the King, head of State of the Kingdom of Spainnever responded to a letter sent by the president Andrés Manuel López Obradorwhere he asked him to apologize for the “wrongs” committed in the Conquest, more than 500 years ago.
However, through social networksSheinbaum detailed that last July a diplomatic note was sent to invite the Spanish president, Pedro Sanchezto the swearing-in ceremony, in the legislative precinct of Saint Lazarus.
After the response by Government Spanish not to attend the protest, Sheinbaum He ruled out breaking diplomatic relations and simply added that “we need respect, that’s all.”
For his part, the president of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, described as unacceptable the exclusion of King Felipe VI to the taking possession of Claudia Sheinbaum.
“We cannot accept that exclusion, and that is why we have expressed to the Government of Mexico the absence of any diplomatic representative of the government of Spain, as a sign of protest, for an exclusion that not only we consider unacceptable, but absolutely inexplicable,” he commented.
He regretted that the next Government Mexican did not invite King Felipe VI, his head of state, and avoided giving details about the conversations he has had with Sheinbaum.
“Of the conversations I have with the elected president of Mexico, I am not going to make any declaration, “(the conversations) remain in the realm of discretion,” he responded to questions from the press.
Analysis
The exclusion of king of Spain, Felipe VI, to the inauguration of the elected president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, reflects a lack of independence in the next president, said Arturo Ponce, an academic at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. (UNAM).
“This position she has is one of a lack of political independence, that is, as the King of Spain, Felipe VIdid not respond to President López Obrador’s letter, I agree with that and do not invite him,” he said in an interview with 24 HOURS.
For the academic, the diplomatic crisis between the Government of Spain and that of Mexico, is due to a slight towards President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and not because the diplomatic circle of the president-elect is unaware of the structure and functionality of the Spanish Government.
“King Felipe is the head of state, and therefore has the representativeness of that nation. The president, Pedro Sánchez, carries the representativeness of the exercise of Government, and obviously its security, so you cannot invite one and not the other, that is rude,” he indicated.
What does it cost you Excuse me?: AMLO
Five days after leaving office, the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador He fueled the dispute between the Mexican Government and the Spanish Crown by saying: “What does an apology cost you?”
He recalled that the monarchy has not responded to his request for an apology for the mistreatment that occurred during the times of the conquest and the colonia.
Given this, the president commented that the attitude of the Crown It is an act of arrogance and “what does it cost them to offer an apology? “If they have already done it in other cases (…) because atrocities were committed, extermination of indigenous peoples after Independence.” /Luis Valdes
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