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Iceta sees "crazy" that you have to apologize for the gesture of the King in Colombia, as requested by Podemos

MADRID, 9 Ago.

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Iceta sees "crazy" that you have to apologize for the gesture of the King in Colombia, as requested by Podemos

MADRID, 9 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Culture, the socialist Miquel Iceta, has downplayed this Tuesday that the criticism of Podemos and independence supporters of King Felipe VI for not standing up to the passing of Simón Bolívar's sword in the inauguration of Gustavo Petro as president of Colombia is a "summer controversy" and considers it "crazy" that Spain has to apologize for this gesture.

In an interview on Radio Nacional, collected by Europa Press, the minister commented that the presence of the sword in the oath was "supervening" because Gustavo Petro "had asked for it to prepare the ceremony and the outgoing government had denied it".

As he has pointed out, "normally" they usually notify before "these protocol things". "I don't know if a sword passes me in front of me, I don't know if I get up or not, really. If they have warned me, maybe yes", she has pointed out.

In this key, he has ironized that perhaps it is a controversy "the result of high temperatures" that serve for "some to mark a kind of political opposition." Thus, he has insisted that he would not give it the importance and significance that it has generated.

Asked about the voices that ask that the country or the Government should apologize for this gesture by the King, the minister pointed out that he thinks it is "absolutely crazy and disproportionate". And immediately afterwards he has compared it to those who demand that Spain apologize for the Discovery of America.

"I always say that what we are not in time for is to tell Colón to turn around," he added, while calling to try to look for things in "reasonable" terms and not "disrupt what they can be small gestures that do not have that transcendence".

The Secretary General of Podemos and also the Minister of the Government, Ione Belarra, criticized the King on social networks, stressing that Spain should show all its support for the democratic process carried out in Colombia: "What happened is inexplicable and deserves an apology."