ARTICLE: THE KING, PERSONAGE OF THE YEAR
Don Juan Carlos defends himself
The turbulences of the Spanish politics have affected the King in this year of 2007. Hurt by the burning of photos and the accusations of supporting the Government with its silence, only opposite to the assaults, the Monarch went out to defend personally the services given by the institution to make possible the rules of game of the democracy, after the resignation to the power with which he began to reign. Nobody knows when the succession will take place, but there is no doubt of his advice to don Felipe: to be abided by the Constitution.
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Don Juan Carlos se defiende · ELPAÍS.com
Ambassador with wreath
Though it does not turn out to be evident, don Juan Carlos has spent abroad almost two of 32 years of his reign. That one is at least the approximate number that proves to multiply slightly more than hundred international trips that he takes realized for five or six days that each one is in the habit of lasting. The exterior politics is, in effect, probably the most emblematic activity of the Wreath, which, according to the article 56 of the Constitution, " assumes the highest representation of the State in the international relations, specially in the nations of its historical community ", that is to say, in Latin America.
The king has realized, nevertheless, his exterior activity in five continents. He has visited more than 160 countries and has managed to turn into the face of Spain into the world.
Embajador con corona · ELPAÍS.com
The King? Very well, thank you
Juan Carlos Brief: it was the hackneyed joke in circles of the democratic oposition (and also, curiously, in nucleuse ultra of the regime) in the final years of the Franco's regime. More than thirty years later, the king Juan Carlos, far from the predicted fleetingness, is the public figure best valued and more respected by the Spanish. A wide personal credit could be gained soon, managed to consolidate it and to extend it, and, on having done it, extended it to the own institution that takes on bodily form. It has not been the monarchic institution the one that has awarded legitimacy to the King, but the King who has provided with credit and social legitimacy to the Wreath.
¿El Rey? Muy bien, gracias · ELPAÍS.com
