Podemos challenges Felipe VI to render accounts and charges against the PSOE: It is the main impediment to republicanism

They see the criticism of their partners to the emeritus as insufficient and ask the monarch to renounce inviolability

MADRID, 23 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Podemos has challenged King Felipe VI that "he should stop being inviolable" and be accountable if he aspires to be "better" than his father, Juan Carlos I, at the same time that he has demanded that the PSOE "move from words to facts" instead of "launching veiled criticism" and "ignoring their corruption".

Moreover, he has charged against the socialists by understanding that they should support an investigative commission in Congress on the alleged irregularities of the emeritus, and has launched that "they are being the main impediment to a constitutional reform and to a progressive advance in the republican sense" .

This was stated this Monday at a press conference by the state co-spokesperson of Podemos, Pablo Fernández, and the secretary of Institutional Action of the purple formation, María Teresa Pérez, in reference to the return to Spain of the emeritus.

The purple formation, a coalition partner of the PSOE, is not satisfied with the critical statements of the Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, regarding the behavior of Juan Carlos during his visit this weekend to the town of Sanxenxo (Pontevedra), pointing out that he has lost the opportunity to apologize to the Spaniards and report on the "unethical" or "exemplary" facts.

And it is that for Pérez the PSOE commits a "serious mistake" by positioning itself in defense of the monarchy "ignoring its corruption and being soft when launching veiled criticism" of the monarchy. In this sense, he has criticized that he has voted against the investigative commissions in Congress up to seven times.

In turn, Fernández has remarked that he sees "good" that the PSOE is "shocked" by the attitude of Juan Carlos I, but has demanded that he show his rejection of the emeritus' "outrages" when there is a "new opportunity" to vote a commission of inquiry on the emeritus. Therefore, he has called for it to be "consequent" and go from "words to deeds."

Regarding the visit of the emeritus, the secretary of Institutional Action of Podemos has called the attitude of the emeritus "embarrassment", "shame" and "humiliation", who has even shown a "cocky" and "sly" tone when they have asked him about whether he was going to explain his alleged irregularities.

In fact, he has censored "laughing in the face" of the Spanish by showing that he is "inviolable" and that he can "steal" to reach a personal fortune of 56 million euros.

However, Pérez has stressed that the main democratic problem is that the Head of State falls to the Royal House, an institution "designed to commit crimes" without consequences, given that Felipe VI or the Infanta Leonor could "follow the bad example" of the emeritus if they want, since "nobody could persecute or judge them".

Even so, the leader of Podemos has asserted that the "social reproach" towards the monarchy, a "damaged" institution is increasing and that the Royal House is an impediment to the modernization of Spain from progressive advances.

In this way and about this morning's meeting between Felipe VI and Juan Carlos I, Pérez has ironized that it is normal that they try to "wash dirty laundry at home" but he has demanded that the current monarch must explain and be " transparent". "He should stop being inviolable and accountable."