There are many reasons why the head of State of Spain can ignore and humiliate the memory of the victims of the dictatorship, but none of them give us a beautiful image as a country. The first of these reasons is that the king and the monarchy owe their place in power, however symbolic it may be in 2024, to the dictatorship and Francisco Franco. Being in an act of reparation to the victims on the anniversary of the death of the satrap would be to recognize the illegitimacy of their institution and that is why they have avoided being present on January 8 at the first commemoration act of 2025, which aims to honor those who suffered repression during the dictatorship.
Needless to say, the Royal Family would never have considered refusing to attend an event that aims to honor the victims of ETA, but it understands that attending one that honors those of the dictatorship means confronting the right-wing and extreme right-wing parties. , so he chooses to give in to his ideological positions and sides with the perpetrators. Nor would he have made any excuse to attend, even without an invitation, any event that was related to the DANA victims now that he has taken the event as a populist method to obtain marketing revenue after the intelligent reaction he had when the kings were received with mud and insults. But they are the victims of Francoism and they can be despised by giving as a justification for their absence that the event of January 8 coincides with another where they have to give diplomatic accreditations to the ambassador of Gabon.
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