The spokesman for Unidas Podemos, Pablo Echenique, has announced that his group in Congress has submitted a petition to the Table to remove paintings, photographs and busts of Juan Carlos I from Congress on the grounds that the former head of state ” is a delinquent” who “has stolen from the Public Treasury”.
According to the purple spokesman, Juan Carlos I “has committed countless crimes, I’m not saying it, the Prosecutor’s Office says it, what happens is that he has enjoyed impunity due to the statute of limitations and inviolability, but he has committed them.”
For this reason, for Echenique, the presence of images of the emeritus king “as if he were a hero” in the Lower House “humiliates the dignity of Congress.” “I don’t want to imagine what an international delegation from a democratic country thinks that comes to Spain and sees that we have a picture of a criminal hanging on the wall of the Congress of Deputies,” he snapped at a press conference in the Chamber to justify his request. .
Precisely, King Juan Carlos has taken a private plane in Vitoria this Tuesday to predictably return to his self-exile to Abu Dhabi after having spent almost a week in Spain, especially in Sanxenxo to train to participate in regattas this summer, although the weather conditions they prevented him from going up to the Knave most days.
The previous head of state left Spain in August 2020 and installed his habitual residence in Abu Dhabi once his irregularities with the Public Treasury came to light. In March of last year, the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office archived the investigations open to the emeritus since 2020, having prescribed the facts or having happened before 2014, when he was protected by inviolability as head of state.
These two circumstances, together with the “insufficiency of incriminating evidence” in other cases and the fiscal regularizations carried out by the emeritus king, led to the closure of the investigations, which, however, made it possible to recover 5,095,148 euros for the public coffers corresponding to the tax dues owed by the monarch.
