The government's maxim: "Dead king, Long live the king"
With Juan Carlos I in disgrace, they praise Felipe VI to save the '78 regime.
King emeritus Juan Carlos I de Borbón left Spain with an uncertain fate, According to the reports, it would be installed in the Dominican Republic. Previously, announced its decision in a letter to Felipe VI. He justified his transfer "Given the public repercussion that certain past events in my private life are generating", to ease the political burden on your child. He expressed that it is a momentary transfer, which will allow you to recover "His dignity", to save "his legacy" and that will remain at the disposal of the Supreme Court Prosecutor's Office. Currently what investigate before complaints about receiving millionaire bribes from the Arab monarchy linked to the construction of the AVE train in Mecca and depositing them in Switzerland. This is just one of many scandals involving him. Thus, Juan Carlos I left the Zarzuela palace after inhabiting it for 52 years. He had entered it during the Franco dictatorship, as Franco's “Successor as King”. The assumption "Champion of democracy" was the guarantor of the transition that gave life to the most reactionary of dictatorial institutionality.
It is a crisis so great that they could not hide it even behind the effects of the pandemic and the crisis of the capitalist economy. Even so, the defenders of the regime try to minimize what happened, like it's a summer vacation trip. Your child has not evicted you, has not taken away their titles, has shown him respect and appreciation. The PP has expressed its "More absolute respect for the decision", with which "Shows his loyalty to Spain", Citizens expressed the same tune. President Pedro Sanchez, he did not refer to the trip but to emphasize the "Sense of exemplarity and transparency" of Felipe VI and institutional stability. On the other hand, Pablo Iglesias was a little more critical, when talking about a "Unworthy attitude of a former head of state" and demand that "Answer for your actions in Spain and before your people". Purple leaders have a magic show, that changes and adapts very easily, within the framework of continuing to support the government and the regime, staying halfway through the underlying questions. In sum, the bourgeois government, will do anything to support the regime.
Whatever they call it, Juan Carlos I is a flight, long orchestrated, with the complicity of the powers of the Spanish State, they have a strange measuring stick when it comes to royalty. It is enough to compare how they act with Catalan political prisoners and with exiles, among which there are artists persecuted for singing "The Bourbons are thieves". Monarchy is anachronistic, privileged, corrupt and originates from the restoration decided by Francoism. And it is not, as some pretend, "A decorative element", acts as guarantor of large international capitalist businesses and of the oppressor "Unity of Spain". The problem is not only Juan Carlos I, is the existence of the entire monarchy as a pillar of the regime.
…a new irruption of the workers and the people is needed, as 15M…
United Podemos asks that the emeritus Be accountable, which is just a compromise formulation. The mere presumption of such acts of corruption implies thinking of a plot of complicity at the highest institutional and business level. There can be no transparent investigation if those who carry it out are the State agencies themselves that sheltered it for decades. An Independent Investigative Commission must be formed, integrated by personalities of impeccable trajectory in democratic rights, human and social, both from the Spanish State and internationally. With your hands free to go all the way in an investigation with clear results and exemplary punishment.
This is just a starting point, to achieve elemental justice. Can't stay here, because what is exhausted is the diet, that is to say all the monarchical-parliamentary institutionality, that it does not provide any progressive solution to the needs of the large popular majorities. Surveys indicate different positions regarding the continuity of the monarchy. Why not make a democratic referendum and consult the population.? Are they afraid that society will speak out for the end of royalty?
Whatever, nothing will be solved with fixes, with small cosmetic arrangements. A constituent process is required, democratic, with broad popular participation to debate and decide on a new order, based on the social and democratic needs of the working people and not of the entrepreneurs and wealthy. And none of this will arise at the will of the defenders of the regime, not for a magical change of institutions. To make it possible, a new irruption of the workers and the people is needed, as 15M, such as those carried out by the Catalan people for democratic freedoms, for turn everything.
