{"id":23469,"date":"2021-04-13T16:48:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T14:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proacomunicacion.es\/?p=23469"},"modified":"2021-04-13T16:48:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T14:48:42","slug":"the-story-of-the-last-six-years-in-spain-is-almost-a-thriller-conversation-with-jose-antonio-zarzalejos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proacomunicacion.es\/en\/el-relato-de-los-ultimos-seis-anos-en-espana-es-casi-un-thriller-conversacion-con-jose-antonio-zarzalejos\/","title":{"rendered":"\"The story of the last six years in Spain is almost a thriller\", conversation with Jos\u00e9 Antonio Zarzalejos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The story of the last six years in Spain is almost a thriller\", \"the King Emeritus has betrayed his son\", \"(Juan Carlos I) will not return to Spain until the Public Prosecutor's Office clarifies his situation\", \"I do believe that Leonor will reign\", \"Pedro S\u00e1nchez has supported the King at crucial moments\". These were some of the messages from\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Antonio Zarzalejos<\/strong>jurist, journalist, former editor of El Correo and ABC, political analyst and writer, in the dialogue he held with\u00a0David Jim\u00e9nez<\/strong>also a journalist, former editor of El Mundo, political analyst and writer, during a new edition of the\u00a0PROA Observatory<\/strong>\u00a0held today at the headquarters of Deusto Business School in collaboration with Editorial Planeta.<\/p>\n

The event, which focused on Zarzalejos' latest work, 'Felipe VI, un rey en la adversidad', was presented by Luc\u00eda Casanueva, managing partner at\u00a0PROA<\/strong>\u00a0together with Valvanuz Serna, who framed it in the consultancy's objective of participating in the reflection for progress.<\/p>\n

The deputy to the president of El Confidencial explained that the aim of writing the book was to \"reconstruct the lesser-known episodes of these six years\" of Felipe VI's reign, after perceiving an \"editorial blackout\" regarding him from 2018.<\/p>\n

A book, \"long in the making, but produced fairly quickly\", which, he explained, hinges on four key points: an immersion in the history of the Spanish and European monarchy, another of a constitutional legal nature to examine the resolutions since the abdication of Juan Carlos I, which did not meet with the King's approval (\"whom I have known since 1999\") and an approach to him through people who know him well, \"the most difficult phase\".<\/p>\n

Zarzalejos reviewed the most important milestones of Felipe VI's reign and highlighted the difficulties he has had to face after his father's \"betrayal\" by handing him a Crown \"with a lamentable reputation\", but he believed that the Monarchy is not in danger and that his daughter Leonor will reign, if \"some convulsive element does not arise when the investigation into the King Emeritus concludes\". He argued that the current monarch has the \"ability to come back\", about whom \"the CIS has not asked about since 2015\", but who personally has almost a \"B\", that changing the form of the State to a Republic requires a constituent process and that \"Leonor is a woman and we are in the century of women\", and does not have \"negative adherences\". To this he added the example of other European parliamentary monarchies that work perfectly. \"And kings make sense in democracies to the extent that they are functional\", he added. He also rejected the possibility of a referendum on the Monarchy, arguing that it has constitutional legitimacy and that without a constituent process there are no mechanisms for doing so.<\/p>\n

He agreed with David Jim\u00e9nez that the greatest damage to the Monarchy has been caused by Juan Carlos I, a name practically avoided throughout the talk in favour of \"King Emeritus\", but disagreed about the \"socialisation of blame\" in the journalistic, media and business protection of the Monarchy. \"The responsibility for private conduct lies with him and him alone,\" he said forcefully.<\/p>\n

A situation which, in his opinion, has on many occasions provoked an \"almost inquisitorial scrutiny\" of his son, who, according to the writer, is aware that his actions must follow \"criteria of exemplarity in public and in private\", because his function is \"to be an example and a reference of civic values\".<\/p>\n