{"id":7984,"date":"2014-06-26T14:37:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=7984"},"modified":"2014-06-26T14:49:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T18:49:18","slug":"felipe-vi-spains-new-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/felipe-vi-spains-new-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Felipe VI, Spain\u00b4s new king"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a1Muy buenas!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Estoy segura de que habr\u00e9is le\u00eddo sobre las \u00faltimas noticias de Espa\u00f1a: el hecho de que la \u201cRoja\u201d, el equipo de f\u00fatbol nacional, ha vuelto a casa avergonzado (lo siento por los fans del f\u00fatbol, yo no soy una como podr\u00e9is comprobar si le\u00e9is mi post \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/surviving-world-cup\/\">Sobreviviendo al mundial<\/a>\u201d) y la abdicaci\u00f3n de nuestro anterior rey Juan Carlos I, con la proclamaci\u00f3n (no fue una coronaci\u00f3n ya que no hubo corona en la ceremonia) del nuevo, su hijo Felipe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As\u00ed que desde el 19 de Junio Espa\u00f1a tiene un nuevo rey, Felipe VI, una nueva reina que no es noble, Leticia Ortiz, y una nueva princesa de Asturias, la hija mayor Leonor, quien probablemente heredar\u00e1 el trono tras su padre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Durante su discurso, Felipe VI pareci\u00f3 ser muy consciente de la p\u00e9rdida de aceptaci\u00f3n de la monarqu\u00eda espa\u00f1ola debido al esc\u00e1ndalo de corrupci\u00f3n de su hermana Cristina y el marido de \u00e9sta, I\u00f1aki Urdangar\u00edn, entre otros motivos, as\u00ed que describi\u00f3 su reinado como \u201cuna monarqu\u00eda renovada para nuevos tiempos. Afirm\u00f3 que \u201cla corona debe estar constantemente ganando la apreciaci\u00f3n, el respeto y la confianza de los ciudadanos\u201d, y a\u00f1adi\u00f3 que \u201cHoy, m\u00e1s que nunca, los ciudadanos demandan con derecho que los funcionarios p\u00fablicos den ejemplo\u201d, una afirmaci\u00f3n que puede considerarse no solo un intento de restaurar la reputaci\u00f3n de la monarqu\u00eda sino como una clara referencia a la crisis econ\u00f3mica y moral espa\u00f1ola, con tantos pol\u00edticos y representantes ciudadanos envueltos en casos de fraude y corrupci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Los mon\u00e1rquicos tienen grandes esperanzas de que este Nuevo rey realmente traer\u00e1 una renovada forma de gobierno basada en el mejor inter\u00e9s de los espa\u00f1oles, aunque no tiene poder ejecutivo. Por otro lado, hay gente que demanda un refer\u00e9ndum acerca de lo apropiado de una monarqu\u00eda (donde el rey no es elegido por el pueblo) en una sociedad democr\u00e1tica en pleno siglo XXI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ya que ese referendum aparentemente no se llevar\u00e1 a cabo, tendremos que esperar para juzgar. El rey Felipe termin\u00f3 su discurso con una cita de Don Quijote: \u201cno es un hombre m\u00e1s que otro, si no hace m\u00e1s que otro.\u201d El tiempo nos dir\u00e1 de su val\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spain&#039;s new king Felipe VI receives the royal sash\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TKwh0ZSPi3E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hello there!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I\u00b4m sure that you\u00b4d have read about Spain\u00b4s most recent news: the fact that The Red, the Spanish national football team, had come home in shame (so sorry for football fans\u2026 I\u00b4m not one of them as you will see if you read my post \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/surviving-world-cup\/\">Surviving the world cup<\/a>\u201d ), and the abdication of our former king Juan Carlos I, with the proclamation (it was not a coronation, there was no crown in the ceremony) of the new one, his son Felipe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">So since June 19 Spain has a new king, Felipe VI, a new Queen who is a commoner, Leticia Ortiz, and a new Princess of Asturias, their oldest daughter Leonor, who will presumably heir the throne after his father.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">During his speech, Felipe VI seemed to be very conscious about the lost favour of the Spanish monarchy because of his sister Cristina and her husband I\u00f1aki Urdangar\u00edn\u00b4s corruption scandal among other things, so he described his reign as \u201ca renewed monarchy for new times.\u201d He said that \u201cThe Crown must constantly earn citizens\u2019 appreciation, respect and trust,\u201d and added that \u201cToday, more than ever, citizens are rightly demanding that public officials lead by example\u201d, a statement that can be considered not only as an attempt to restore the monarchy\u00b4s reputation but also as a clear reference to Spain\u00b4s economical and moral crisis, with so many politicians and citizen representatives involved in fraud and corruption cases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Monarchists have high expectations on this new king that he will truly bring a fresh kind of governance based on the best interest of Spaniards, although he has no executive power. On the other hand, there are also people who demand a referendum on the appropriateness of a monarchy, (where the king is not elected by the people) in a 21<sup>st<\/sup> century democratic society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As this referendum will not apparently take place, we will have to wait to judge. King Felipe ended his speech with a quote from <em>Don Quixote<\/em>: \u201cA man is not worth more than another man if he does not do more than him\u201d. Time will tell us how much he is worth .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a1Muy buenas! Estoy segura de que habr\u00e9is le\u00eddo sobre las \u00faltimas noticias de Espa\u00f1a: el hecho de que la \u201cRoja\u201d, el equipo de f\u00fatbol nacional, ha vuelto a casa avergonzado (lo siento por los fans del f\u00fatbol, yo no soy una como podr\u00e9is comprobar si le\u00e9is mi post \u201cSobreviviendo al mundial\u201d) y la abdicaci\u00f3n de&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/felipe-vi-spains-new-king\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7354,222997,358362,222996],"class_list":["post-7984","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-celebrations","tag-felipe-vi","tag-culture","tag-spanish-king"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7984"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7988,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}