By Monica Uriel MADRID, 1 (Bloomberg) – Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the abdication of King Juan Carlos met, who lives since in solitude.
According writes today the newspaper El Confidencial, King Juan Carlos, 77, just haunts his son, King Philip VI, who abdicated on June 2, 2014. It also continues without dealing with his wife, Queen Sofia, 76, and his two daughters, the Infanta Elena and Infanta Cristina, the latter accused in a corruption case.
King Juan Carlos, El Confidencial , also frequents the German entrepreneur and Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, who allegedly had a romantic relationship.
The monarch has only frequented this year his family in the celebrations and official events, the last time in the first communion of his granddaughter Eleanor, eldest daughter of Felipe and Letizia kings.
King still needs a cane to walk after hip operations which was submitted two years ago in which he implanted a prosthesis.
It seems that the monarch has pains and struggles to his feet, so he does not get up to welcome its guests in the palace of La Zarzuela.
King Juan Carlos will be conditioned upon an office abdicate the Palacio de Oriente, to preserve the independence of his son, but continues to receive visits in La Zarzuela, a short distance from the apartment of the current kings. The president, Mariano Rajoy, announced on June 2 passed the abdication of the king after 39 years of reign, a decision which the monarch had long pondering and there is no tradition in the Spanish monarchy.
Your incident influenced his decision in a hunt in Botswana, where the hip, a journey that came to light when Spain was going through its worst economic crisis and that its popularity fell dramatically broke. The April 18, 2012 he was forced to apologize to his now famous phrase pronounced in the hallway of a hospital, “I’m sorry, I was wrong, it will not happen again.”
In January 2014 King Juan Carlos had trouble reading the speech of the Military Easter, so he left dismayed at the highest state representatives present and to the public.
was shortly after that time when the king told his son and government decision to abdicate. Its popularity also had been weakened by the corruption case in which he was accused his son, Inaki Urdangarin first, then his daughter, the Infanta Cristina.
When analyzing today its decision states that the process began abdication with the economic crisis, which erupted in 2008 and that unemployment in Spain rose to 25%.
The crisis revealed the privileges of the political class and institutions, as well as corruption, before a citizenship subject to benefit cuts.
abdication of King Juan Carlos was a symbol of regeneration needed by the institutions and with it saved the crown of institutional crisis. UR / ACZ
06.01.2015 18:15
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