MADRID In his first Christmas speech as king and amid the scandal processing your sister Cristina for tax offenses, Philip VI urged yesterday to cut corruption in Spain “root and unceremoniously “.
” The fight against corruption is an essential objective, “he said yesterday without direct the corruption case hits the Spanish royal family for over three years allusions, under which the Infanta Cristina and her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, sit on the dock, it was learned Monday.
Although different in tone and form, the contents reminded the now famous words his father, Juan Carlos, launched in Christmas speech of 2011, when his son was accused. “Justice is equal for all”
The speech was criticized by some for not having alluded directly to the case of his sister.
The newspaper El Pais said in its editorial that words “the processing of his sister, who is not a family problem but a serious setback for the crown and a serious concern for Spain, had done Speaking more convincing. “
The progressive minority party Izquierda Unida (IU) reproached the same monarch, but neither the Popular Party (PP) and the main opposition party, the Socialist (PSOE ), criticized the lack of reference to the Infanta Cristina.
On this occasion, the new monarch, 46, focused message of Christmas Eve, the only one who writes the government, the problems that concern to the Spanish. democratic regeneration and unemployment
Amid the wave of corruption that splash the Spanish institutions, which has not escaped the royal house, Philip VI made a plea favor of “honesty” of the “public servants”.
“The behaviors that deviate from the behavior expected of a public servant causing rightly, indignation and disappointment,” he said in a wink social unrest in Spain, which resulted in the rise of political forces as may, at the polls and are among the most popular parties.
On June 19, in his first speech after his proclamation as King Philip VI announced a new time in very deteriorated Spanish monarchy in the last years of Juan Carlos, and demanded exemplary and honesty in public life.
The processing of your sister overshadows their promises and measures implemented during the first six months of reign, but his message was optimistic yesterday.
“Regenerate our political life, regain the confidence of citizens in their institutions, ensuring our state of Welfare and preserve our unity from the plurality are our major challenges. They are not simple tasks. These are not easy challenges. But we will overcome, “he said.
On the crisis that plagues to Spain since 2008, the monarch acknowledged an improvement in macroeconomic data, but left the euphoric discourse of the government of Mariano Rajoy, who makes few days the adjourned.
“Our economy has failed, yet definitively resolve this fundamental imbalance,” said the king, recognizing that the unemployment data at a rate that exceeds 23 percent, “are unacceptable.”
Also referred directly to the separatist challenge in Catalonia, a region of northeastern Spain whose government promoted the November 9 symbolic sovereignty consultation, and that the king visited three times since acceded to the throne.
“The disagreements are not resolved with emotional or breakups,” he said, urging “all” to make an “effort” to overcome the tensions in the framework of respect to the Constitution.
“It hurts and I worry that may occur rejections among families, friends or citizens emotional fractures, or disaffected. Nobody in Spain today is enemy of anyone, “he said.
The speech yesterday was the first message of Christmas Eve Philip VI sent the Spaniards through television, a tradition that sat his father Juan Carlos, and repeated every 24 December for 38 years.
Philip VI thanked “respect, love and affection” received in recent months by the citizens.
Philip VI
King of Spain
“The fight against corruption is an essential objective”
“The behaviors that deviate from the behavior expected of a public servant cause, rightly indignant”
“Our economy has not been able to definitively resolve this fundamental imbalance [unemployment ] “
Agencies AP, DPA and Reuters .
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