This Saturday, November 22, we celebrate 50 years of monarchy in Spain and the House of the King, of King Felipe VI, celebrates the anniversary this Friday in the Royal Palace with some state events, albeit low-key.
Representatives of all powers will be present at the event, including Pedro Sánchez, and the highest authorities, such as the opposition leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The state attorney general, Álvaro García Ortiz, refused to attend after being sentenced to a two-year ban by the Supreme Court for the crime of revealing secrets.
Felipe González, Miquel Roca and Miguel Herrero and Rodríguez de Miñón. Three key figures of the Seventies and Eighties, a period in which Spain sought to enter the club of Western democracies, will receive the Golden Fleece from the hands of Philip VI, the highest decoration awarded by the Crown for services rendered to Spain. González, then leader of the PSOE and first president to consolidate political alternation at the polls with an overwhelming absolute majority in 1982, will speak on behalf of all the awarded politicians, two of them parents of the Constitution, to which Queen Sofia adheres and, in her line, has already announced that she will not intervene.
Felipe VI will do so, also in the midst of controversy over his father’s memories – and on the interviews published by the French media – and on the evident absence of the head of state during 39 of the 50 years of parliamentary monarchy. The King will make a brief allusion to his father’s role in the Transition and leadership of the Head of State for decades. Juan Carlos I was not invited to the institutional event, although he was invited to the lunch that the Kings intend to offer on Saturday 22nd in El Pardo to the rest of his family.
