The King Philip VI will attend a ceremony at the Royal Palace in Madrid on Friday, exactly a year after inheriting the crown of his father Juan Carlos I. There it is, however, a big anniversary party but a delivery protocol decorations. The new monarch would have reason to celebrate, because it appears that the Royal Family has left the bump from its worst crisis since the end of the Franco dictatorship. But it has even more reason to give up any kind of celebration to commemorate his first year on the throne. In the post-crisis times like these, citizens are wary of any kind of ostentation, and if anything has marked the first steps of the young Bourbon is prudence.
When Juan Carlos abdicated on June 2, Last year, thousands of people filled the Puerta del Sol in Madrid to demonstrate against the monarchy. The institution was one of the main goals of social movements demanding a democratic regeneration and dramatic changes to the political and economic order. The image of a frail septuagenarian and the blunders of Juan Carlos like the elephant hunting accident in Botsuana- in the worst moment of the crisis, precipitated the succession. It was a replacement ‘express’ by improvised succession law. Not long before Philip VI to announce reforms in the royal family, as a greater, though still insufficient transparency in the budgets of the head of state. In addition, wages are down 20%, forbade the king to receive gifts and reduced the royal family his wife, daughters and parents.
Perhaps most significant, and certainly the most hard- has been face his sister Cristina by the corruption of her husband, splashing the Infanta own. A few days ago, Philip withdrew the title of Duchess of Palma, Cristina but still maintains its place in the line of succession to the throne. With its serious and professional style, which contrasts with the cheerfulness of his father-which in Spain is also called “campechanía” – the new king has restored some normality to the Crown. It also helps that we, the party born of the protest movements, has decided to park the debate on the monarchy to focus on other more pressing and reassure moderate voters affairs.
A year later, 57% of Spaniards approve of the job of Philip VI, according to a survey by the State Institute CIS. They have also raised the notes to the royal family as an institution, although still far from the levels of popularity it enjoyed ten or twenty years ago. “You have to constantly earn the appreciation of the citizens,” the king said in his speech proclaiming, “with a full, honest and transparent behavior.” King does well to dispense with expressions of joy on his birthday, because he still has much work ahead.
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