Juan Carlos I continues his day at the Club Náutico, where today he has again avoided questions from the press. At the exit of the building, located on the Sanxenxo seafront promenade, the emeritus was asked for the meeting he will hold tomorrow with his son, Felipe VI in Zarzuela. “Do you want to see your family tomorrow?” a journalist asks him, to which he replies, with a more serious face than usual: “You ask. I’m here, in Sanxenxo”.
The emeritus has also referred to his grandchildren, of whom he has commented that they are all very well. This Saturday the former monarch went to see his grandson Pablo Urdangarín play in Pontevedra, where he played a handball match.
If the weather conditions allow it, today the regatta of the Viajes InterRías Trophy will continue at the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo. It will be the final day of the race, which will start at 12:30 p.m. and in which the Bribón 500, skippered by the king emeritus, and the Stella will take to the regatta field as leaders. Up to three tests could be held starting at 1:00 p.m. The time limit for departure is 3:30 p.m., which means that after that time the Race Committee will not be able to start any race.
Juan Carlos I is giving Felipe VI and the Government a real pulse on his first visit to Spain after self-exile in the United Arab Emirates. To his son, because his father’s stay has become a media spectacle, very far from what he had let him know that he wanted in this first trip. To the Executive of Pedro Sánchez, because the president had warned the emeritus that he wanted him to give explanations to the Spanish for his hidden fortune.
The former head of state did not refer to his scandals despite the opportunity to be surrounded by cameras, nor is he going to do so before he travels back to Abu Dhabi on Monday, according to sources from the environment of the emeritus
In fact, Juan Carlos I is planning a second visit to Sanxenxo: in June to defend his world sailing title.
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Also from Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo is blunt with those who criticize the visit of the emeritus king to Galicia. The president of the PP has defended this Sunday the visit of Juan Carlos I and has lamented that there are those who want to use this issue “as an alibi to erode the Spanish Constitution and the head of state.”
Speaking to the press upon his arrival at the Autonomous Congress of the Galician PP, Núñez Feijóo has maintained that, with his visit, “the king is doing what corresponds to him, in accordance with his rights and freedoms.” According to Núñez Feijóo, “it does not seem reasonable” to continue questioning that “a citizen who has no pending case and who has also been King of Spain for several decades, visits his country.” Therefore, the leader of the PP believes that this question is only used by those who “want to question the head of state.”