The heir to the throne of Spainthe Princess Eleanorthis Tuesday turns 18 and swore fidelity to the Constitution. The ceremony took place in the Spanish Parliamentan essential requirement to become queen and head of state of Spain and so happen to Philip VI.
Leonor de Borbón, accompanied by her father on king, her mother Queen Letizia and his sister Infanta Sofiatook the oath in a special session of the Cortes, a procedure that his grandfather completed Juan Carlos I in 1969during the Franco dictatorship, and Felipe VI in 1986in democracy.
“I swear to faithfully carry out my duties, to uphold and ensure that the Constitution and the laws are upheld, to respect the rights of citizens and the autonomous communities, and to be faithful to the king,” Leonor expressed with one hand on it same copy of the Constitution about which Felipe VI swore.
In Spain, a parliamentary monarchy, Constitution establishes that men have preference for inherit the crownbut Leonor has no male siblings.
Princess Leonor’s oath
With a White suitthe princess was applauded for several minutes after her oath at the Parliament Chamber.
The ceremony was followed on giant screens placed in the downtown Sun Gate Madrid and other places in the Spanish capital. For his part, a crowd gave him their support around the Parliament.
After completing primary and high school studies in Madrid and the United Kingdom, respectively, Leonor recently began three years of military traininglike his father did.
The great absences of the ceremony
He King Emeritus Juan Carlos I, who, dogged by scandals in the last stretch of his reign, abdicated in 2014 and settled in Abu Dhabi in 2020, was not present at the ceremony. But, according to the press, he will participate in the family celebration in it El Pardo palaceon the outskirts of the capital.
Nor did they attend party representatives that concentrate republican sentiment, independentists Catalans, Basques and Galicians, and a part of the radical left.
“No monarchy, no constitution. Democracy. Freedom. Republics,” the independence parties indicated in a manifesto this Tuesday, which they said represented “the sentiment of millions of people (…) who neither recognize nor support the Spanish monarchical regime.”
Also, three of the government ministers belonging to the platform radical left Sumar, Republican party activists did not attend the ceremony.
Yes, the socialist was there Pedro Sanchezhe president of the outgoing government and who is currently negotiating a new executive to remain in power, for which he needs the votes of the Catalan and Basque independentists.
Source: Ambito
