We can charge against the PSOE ministers for minimizing the King's gesture before Bolivar's sword

Iglesias speaks of "unworthy cowardice that only helps the extreme right"

MADRID, 9 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Podemos has criticized this Tuesday that several PSOE ministers have minimized the importance of the King's gesture of remaining seated at the passage of the sword of Simón Bolívar in Colombia and has asked if that decision was endorsed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, also present at the inauguration of Gustavo Petro.

After the repercussion generated by the decision of the Head of State not to stand up to the sword, the Ministers of the Presidency and of Culture, Félix Bolaños and Miquel Iceta, have downplayed the controversy. "These are details without too much importance and totally minor," said Bolaños.

This reaction among the PSOE ministers has increased the anger of Podemos, whose spokesman in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has published several comments insisting on knowing if Albares was the one who made the decision or endorsed it.

The purple leader resorts to article 64 of the Constitution to show that Felipe VI cannot make "the personal decision to insult the Colombian people" without first consulting the competent minister.

And he censures that the socialist part of the Government wants to show that "the lack of respect" of the monarch "has no significance" while the Vox deputies think it is "something important and fantastic".

The same criticism is made by the founder of Podemos and former Vice President of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, who recalls that the gesture of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2003, remaining seated in front of the United States flag, was "a political message", just like that of the King In colombia.

For this reason, he maintains that the response of Bolaños and Iceta, downplaying the matter, is "an unworthy cowardice that only helps the (ultra) right."

Moreover, Iglesias maintains that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, should call the King to order and "demand institutional respect". "Felipe VI has wanted to humiliate the democratic dignity of Spain and the honor of the Latin American nations," he censures.