![]() ![]() Īccording to the 1978 constitution, Spain’ s king is the embodiment of the country’ s “unity and permanence” yet he is also described as the figure who “ arbitrates and moderates” its political institutions. King Felipe VI, who took the throne in June 2014 after the abdication of his father Juan Carlos I, heads an “anachronistic institution that is … based on the goal of maintaining and imposing the unity of Spain and its laws,” said Gabriel Rufián, a provocative, outspoken member of the pro-independence Republican Left of Catalonia. ![]() 3, as they boycotted the opening of the new parliamentary session in Madrid. “We have no k ing.” So declared almost 50 politicians from pro-independence parties from Galicia, the Basque Country, and Catalonia on Feb. But the Spanish monarch’s brief intervention in the Catalonia drama suggests that Felipe has yet to grasp the inadequacy of inflexibility when it comes to dealing with the region’s independence movement. Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is attempting to preserve unity through moderation and dialogue, rather than retreating behind a firewall of inflexibility-the approach taken by Sánchez’s conservative predecessor Mariano Rajoy, with the tacit endorsement of Felipe. The Catalan independence movement has forced the king to face the dilemma of how to balance these two obligations, and highlighted the conflict between the constitution’s commitment to the “indissoluble unity” of Spain and the right to self-governance of so-called historical regions such as Catalonia.Īfter trying and failing to ignore the northeastern region’s separatists, Spain’s new leftist coalition is now engaging them. ![]() King Felipe VI, who took the throne in June 2014 after the abdication of his father Juan Carlos I, heads an “anachronistic institution that is … based on the goal of maintaining and imposing the unity of Spain and its laws,” said Gabriel Rufián, a provocative, outspoken member of the pro-independence Republican Left of Catalonia.Īccording to the 1978 constitution, Spain’s king is the embodiment of the country’s “unity and permanence” yet he is also described as the figure who “arbitrates and moderates” its political institutions. “We have no king.” So declared almost 50 politicians from pro-independence parties from Galicia, the Basque Country, and Catalonia on Feb. ![]()
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