It will be his first National Day as King. Together with his wife and two daughters, will preside over the military parade in Madrid in which more than 3,000 military and fifty aircraft. It will be a parade with less “cuts” than other years in which to be sure, both the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, as opposition leader, Pedro Sánchez, must pass a public revalidation. Because in these parades, the audience, has always tried to express with applause and whistles sometimes more, their reactions to political events.
Rajoy can check the reaction to its policies before the crisis Ebola. Sanchez see whether military families have understood its nuances after saying it would eliminate the Department of Defense.
The welcome both undoubtedly be one of the highlights of a day in which it is intended attending, as every year, thousands of citizens to clothe the soldiers who represent the three armies. The stop is held just hours after the government has approved sending 300 soldiers to Iraq to participate in international mission against terrorism Islamic State.
Defense will invest a similar budget to last year just over 800,000 euros. But on this occasion, and to mark the 75th anniversary of the Air Force has authorized to participate in the stop 52 aircraft. Clarifies that does not involve any increase in the budget because it seeks to build flight hours already budgeted for 2014.
In addition to Spanish aircraft (including the Eurofighter ) will participate in air paraded aircraft Italy and Switzerland . In addition, a tanker aircraft fly pretending to be supplying fuel in flight two fighters.
Then the land parade, with about 3,000 soldiers, including representatives of several countries of the Maghreb as Morocco , and 43 armored vehicles. They will march downtown, between the Plaza de Colón and the Paseo del Prado.
Don Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia attend either this year and surely will for the first time the daughters of Kings, Princess of Asturias and the Infanta Sofía.
The presence of a new King in the National Day parade will require changes to the protocol. Thus, both the royal crest as the actual script that can be seen during the shutdown will be adopted by Philip VI to his accession to the throne in June.
In addition, due to their status as supreme commander of the Armies, the monarch is expected to wear their uniform label large Army, which will complete with sash captain general of the Armed Forces.
The monarchs will be accompanied during the parade in the main stand by the prime minister, the presidents of Congress and the Senate, Jesus Posada and Pio Garcia Escudero , respectively; and ministers and national, regional and local.
Among them, the main Madrid authorities, such as the regional president, Ignacio Gonzalez; the mayor of the capital, Ana Botella, and the government delegate, Cristina Cifuentes, who last year could not attend because they were recovering from the car accident he suffered two months earlier.
There is a lot of the surprise but between absences are those of the Catalan president, Artur Mas, and Basque, Iñigo Urkullu.
Yes are expected to attend the presidents of Andalusia, Balearic Islands, Valencia, Murcia, La Rioja, Navarre, Galicia, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, Canarias , Cantabria, Aragon, Ceuta and Melilla .
Before the parade will be held a tribute to the fallen flag and Spain.
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