Podemos demands to withdraw from Congress the paintings and busts of King Juan Carlos, whom he calls a "confessed criminal"

Echenique considers that having her image on camera is an "unacceptable humiliation" to the seat of national sovereignty

MADRID, 25 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -

United We Can has addressed a letter to the Congress Table, in which it has an absolute majority with the PSOE, to demand the removal of busts and paintings now present in the chamber with the image of King Juan Carlos I, whom it defines as a " confessed criminal" whose depiction of his image is an "unacceptable humiliation" to the seat of national sovereignty.

This was detailed by the spokesman for the confederal group at a press conference in Congress, in which he attacked the emeritus king, accusing him of having "stolen public money" from the treasury and of having committed "innumerable crimes", with "immunity " which confers the inviolability of the crown included in the Constitution.

This request, which the pro-independence parties already attempted without success in June 2020, has been registered coinciding with the second visit to Spain by Felipe VI's father since he settled in the United Emirates in the summer of 2020.

The letter from United We Can, collected by Europa Press, calls for the withdrawal of at least eight works with the image of Juan Carlos I, distributed among photographs, paintings and busts located in various offices of Congress.

In this way, the confederal group emphasizes that the emeritus has not been convicted for lack of evidence but for the prescription of certain tax crimes, together with the "impunity" conferred by article 56.3 of the Magna Carta.

In any case, it denounces its opaque businesses for decades, whose concealment from the Tax Agency is "public and notorious" at least in a "minimal" part. He even defines the emeritus as a "disgraced character, guilty of serious economic crimes and on the run in an Arab theocratic dictatorship."

"We think it humiliates the dignity of the Congress of Deputies that we have his images in this house as if he were a 'hero'. I don't even want to imagine what an international delegation that comes to Spain from a democratic country thinks and sees that we have a picture of a delinquent hanging on the wall in the Congress of Deputies", Echenique launched.

For his part, the leader of En Comú Podem and first secretary of the Congressional Board, Gerardo Pisarello, has also requested that the distinction of king emeritus and other honors to Juan Carlos I be withdrawn if it is confirmed that he transfers his fiscal headquarters to the Emirates , with the intention of not paying taxes in Spain and which he describes as a new attempt at "tax fraud".

After stressing that the former monarch had to regularize his situation with the Treasury on two occasions, the deputy criticized that it would be an "inadmissible and shameful" attitude for the emeritus, who "could not behave like Ferrovial" doing business and not paying taxes in his country.

Finally, he has demanded that the former head of state appear to explain his alleged irregularities in Congress, since he continues to be accused of committing serious crimes abroad.