It’s now official: Princess Leonor de Borbón will be named Adoptive Daughter of Zaragoza. The initiative, advanced last week by Mayor Natalia Chueca, was ratified this Thursday during the plenary session of the City Council with the favorable vote of all groups (PP, PSOE and Vox) except Zaragoza en Común (ZeC), which has positioned itself against.
The date on which the official granting of the title will materialize, which will be chosen and announced by Casa Real, still remains to be specified.
It is not the first tribute that the princess receives during her academic stay in the Aragonese capital, where last August she began her three-year military training. In November of last year, with the favorable votes of PP and Vox, the name change of the current Zaragoza Auditorium to Princess Leonor was already carried out.
According to the regulations, the purpose of this new distinction is to recognize people who have stood out for their merits or qualities, especially in the cultural, scientific, social, artistic, political or economic fields, or for the services provided in benefit of the city.
If born in the municipality of Zaragoza, the decorated person obtains the title of Favorite Son and, if born outside, that of Adopted Son.
This is the case of the princess or also of her father, King Felipe VI, who already received this recognition in 1986 when he was studying at the General Military Academy (AGM) in the Aragonese capital when he was the same age as his daughter now.
In the absence of official confirmation, foreseeably this Friday, the king and the princess could see each other again in person next weekend if Felipe VI finally attends the AGM to swear the flag again in the same setting in which he did so. for the first time in 1985.
It would be an act similar to the one he carried out in 2010, when he already participated in the “rejuration” of the flag with his classmates from the forty-fourth class 25 years after they left the Academy.
