The King received the acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in his usual weekly office this morning at Zarzuela, after it was announced that the extraordinary office would not take place this summer in the Marivent Palace. An occasion in which the different presidents of the Government, both during the reign of Juan Carlos I and with Felipe VI, take the opportunity to, in a subsequent press conference, take stock of the year and announce their action plan for the following months.
This Tuesday, after the meeting of the Council of Ministers before the summer break, the spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, already announced that since the Government is in office there would be no such meeting in Palma and that Felipe VI and Sánchez would meet regularly.
The weekly dispatches, which usually take place on Wednesdays in the Zarzuela, do not have news coverage, nor is their content made public. Nor in the extraordinary Marivent but on those occasions, the Prime Minister lends himself to a press conference.
It is not expected that the King and the President of the Government will hold a new office in the coming weeks, until, in his capacity as Head of State and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, they meet on the occasion of the round of consultations that will begin as of August 17, once the new Cortes have been constituted. Felipe VI will receive the spokesmen for the different parliamentary groups and, later, will propose a candidate for the investiture.
The King and the President of the Government coincided this Tuesday at the official inauguration of the Royal Collections Gallery, an act in which Sánchez, reported Efe, affirmed that Spain is “a country thrown into the future”, that “embraces democracy ” and in which, despite “many ups and downs and difficulties” that it faces, the certainty is shared that “there is no turning back”. The President of the Government intends to travel to Lanzarote this Thursday to spend a few days off at the La Mareta residence, in Lanzarote.
The King plans to arrive in Palma this Wednesday, to begin a few days of stay in Marivent. His first appearance will take place this Thursday when he will receive the new Balearic authorities in audience after the regional and municipal elections on May 28: Margarita Prohens; the president of the autonomous Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne; the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez Llabrés; and the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenc Galmés.
