Podemos calls for to withdraw the portraits of the emeritus king from Congress: “He is a prison”

The spokesperson for Podemos in Congress, Pablo EcheniqueEuropa Press

The purples ask for the withdrawal of eight works, together with busts and portraits, as a result of their presence “humiliates the dignity of Congress” We can denounce that King Juan Carlos has dedicated “innumerable crimes” however has loved immunity resulting from prescription and the inviolability of the CoronaPisarello, from En Comú Podem, additionally calls for that he be stripped of the excellence of king emeritus and different honors if he transfers his tax headquarters to the Emirates to keep away from paying taxes

Podemos returns to the cost towards the presence of King Juan Carlos I in Congress by busts, portraits or pictures distributed in varied dependencies. The get together led by Ione Belarra has despatched a petition to the Board of the Chamber to take away all pictures of the emeritus. The spokesman for the United We Can parliamentary group, Pablo Echenique, has justified his request by assuring that the king “is a confessed prison.”

For the purples, the truth that there are portraits of the king all through the Carrera de San Jerónimo Palace “humiliates the dignity” of Congress, the seat of nationwide sovereignty. According to Echenique, Juan Carlos I “has dedicated innumerable crimes” and has stolen public cash however has loved “immunity” because of the prescription and the inviolability of his determine as dictated by the Constitution.

It is just not a brand new request. In 2020, the independence events requested the identical factor, coinciding with the second go to to Spain by Felipe VI’s father since he established his residence within the United Emirates in the summertime of 2020. The emeritus leaves Spain this Tuesday after having spent a couple of days in Sanxenxo.

In the Congress of Deputies, work and sculptures of a prison are exhibited in locations of honor. It is one thing that humiliates the dignity of the seat of standard sovereignty and that’s the reason we now have despatched a request to the Board and to President Batet to take away them. pic.twitter.com/J7r0LG5dbP

— Pablo Echenique (@PabloEchenique) April 25, 2023

We can demand the withdrawal of no less than eight works with the picture of Juan Carlos I positioned in varied places of work of Congress. In his writing, he denounces the alleged opaque companies for many years, whose concealment from the Tax Agency is “public and infamous”. He defines the emeritus as a “disgraced character, responsible of significant financial crimes and on the run in an Arab theocratic dictatorship.”

“We suppose it humiliates the dignity of the Congress of Deputies that we now have his pictures on this home as if he had been a ‘hero’. I do not even need to think about what a world delegation that involves Spain from a democratic nation thinks and sees that we now have an image of a delinquent hanging on the wall within the Congress of Deputies”, Echenique has proclaimed.

In the offensive of Podemos, the deputy of En Comú Podem Gerardo Pisarello has additionally requested that the excellence of king emeritus and different honors to Juan Carlos I be withdrawn whether it is confirmed that he transfers his fiscal headquarters to the Emirates, with the intention of not paying taxes in Spain.

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