The electoral calendar disrupts the vacation plans of the Emeritus: they prevent him from coming before 23J

Discreetly and without fuss, everything was planned in Sansenxo, to celebrate the weekend of July 7 to 9, the Spanish Sailing Cup, in which 6-meter boats compete, such as the Bribón de Pedro Campos and the King Juan Carlos.

And we say with discretion because, as they assured Informalia, sources of the Nautical Club of the Galician town, the assistance of the king emeritus was assured, in view of the fact that on his trip in April, to participate in the previous regatta, his presence was almost invisible. It was the condition imposed by Zarzuela to allow his presence in Spain and subsequent returns, like this one on July 8.

However, it seems that the previous monarch’s trips to his country are touched by bad luck. If in the previous attempt, the weather prevented him from sailing as he wanted, the holding of general elections 15 days after this nautical competition, “recommends”, according to experts at Casa Real, that Juan Carlos I is not in his country on those dates , in full campaign for the legislative, is not going to be that “contaminates” the electoral process, breaking the traditional neutrality of the Crown.

After July 23

But in Sanxenxo they do not want to celebrate the regatta without don Juan Carlos at the helm of the Rascal, and are consulting with the sailing federation, change the date of the competition to later, when the elections have already been held, that is, after July 23. On the other hand, our sources, who sympathize with the previous head of state, do not hide their desire for the Popular Party to win and Núñez Feijoó to be the next president of a government, which, as they admit and believe, would welcome the return definitive of the father of Felipe VI to Spain.

It is possible that the date of the Galician regatta will move but, in any case, the participation of Don Juan Carlos in another of the 6-meter boat regattas, on the Isle of Wigh at the end of August, as we anticipated in scoop. However, Letizia’s father-in-law needs to train for this international challenge and Sanxenso was the ideal prelude to go to the British island well prepared. For some time now, politics has marked the calendar of the former King of Spain, something unimaginable when it was he, in the days when he controlled the strings of power, who marked dates and decided how and when.