2023-10-31 07:37:04
Pedro Sánchez did not want to repeat today with the Princess of Asturias the photo that Felipe González did take with his father, King Felipe VI, when he swore in the Constitution when he came of age, although in the end he accepted after an intense battle of protocol.
During the protocol organization of the event that is being held today in Congress, the Royal House transmitted that the precedent of January 1986 of the Oath of the then prince should be followed. On that occasion, as the graphic archive shows, the head of the Executive, Felipe González, stood next to the heir to the throne, who on his other side was escorted by Don Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía. The draft protocol sent last Thursday afternoon maintained these indications indicated by Zarzuela.
However, the Presidency of the Government requested to establish a different location for the acting President of the Government. They wanted him to be placed between the president of the Congress and the president of the Senate, instead of next to the Princess of Asturias, that is, just on the opposite side of the image of the posed that will go down in the history of Spanish democracy. This morning’s parliamentary session is not just another protocol act but a very relevant milestone within the constitutional process planned so that Doña Leonor can inherit the throne from her father. Against Zarzuela’s criteria, the protocol representatives of the Presidency of the Government once again insisted on their demand in the last meeting yesterday: a proposal that, by the way, was not well viewed by the protocol services of either the Congress or the Senate. Finally, Moncloa gave in last night in extremis.
The battle began last Friday afternoon, when Moncloa communicated the following instruction to the Senate protocol: The Presidency of the Government has asked the Congressional Protocol to draw two scenarios. One with the President of the Government on the left side, next to the King, and another with the President between the President of the Congress and the President of the Senate.
On Saturday morning they announced that they were opting for the President of the Government to be placed between the President of Congress and the President of the Senate, to which the President of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, spoke with his counterpart in Congress, the socialist Francina Armengol. , to reconsider that position. The last communication, from yesterday morning, was that Pedro Sánchez would stand behind the president of the Senate, without posing next to the Princess of Asturias, who would have the Infanta Sofía next to her.
In parliamentary media they interpret this move by Moncloa as another gesture directed at the partners with whom the investiture agreement is being closed. Junts, ERC, Bildu and the BNG will not attend Congress, nor will the Podemos ministers. The new legislature, if it starts, will be marked by anti-monarchist pressure from the parties that will support Sánchez in Moncloa. One of the most striking absences is that of the PNV, which in this way avoids being the only nationalist party (with the exception of the Canarian Coalition) that is portrayed with the future queen. It is a warning to Sánchez about the unfulfilled commitment to adapt the State structures for the national recognition of Euskadi and Catalonia. This condition is on the investiture negotiation table.
By the way, the swearing-in of the Constitution of Felipe VI did have the presence of the then Lendakari, José Antonio Ardanza. And unlike the decision made now, Lendakari Urkullu and the PNV have also participated on other occasions in the Crown’s formal acts. His spokesman in Congress, Aitor Esteban, attended Felipe VI’s round of consultations for the investiture of the next president of the Government. The PNV also explains this significant absence in the anger of the Lendakari Urkulllu with the King for not having visited the Gernika Assembly House.
In the previous legislature, the PSOE already had to rely on the PP to stop some of the initiatives against the Crown that its partners brought to Congress. This climate against the Monarchy will be present in the new parliamentary agenda, with a PSOE in a more precarious situation because it depends on the vote of each of its allies in all the laws it brings to Parliament. In fact, in the principle of agreement to reach a pact on the investiture, the Catalan independentists already included the anti-monarchist debate. For them, the Crown is a symbol of a constitutional regime that they want to overcome to move towards recognition of a plurinational Spain, as a preliminary step, in the Catalan case, for the self-determination referendum.
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