It seeks to constrain the visit of Juan Carlos I in a format marked by discretion. This is already a losing battle. The Peinador de Vigo airport, where he is going to land this morning on Wednesday, April 19, is already full of television cameras prepared to record the moment in which the father of Felipe VI I stepped on Spanish soil. Just like it happened last year. It is the return of the emeritus volume 2. History repeats itself.
It is insisted from all angles that Don Juan Carlos’s visit to the Ría de Pontevedra is strictly private. The mayor of Sanxenxo, Telmo Martín, and the president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, who spoke in Ana Rosa’s program of “the promotion” that it supposes for the town of Pontevedra, as “something good”. But he has also qualified: “We have no confirmation nor do we know what time he is coming. Neither officially nor unofficially. For this reason, it is very difficult to assess the role we are going to play.” Rueda, who continues with his agenda, does not plan to meet Juan Carlos I. “It’s that he’s coming for a private visit. Whatever he does, he’ll do privately.” This argument, which is repeated like groundhog day, comes to mark the content of his trip and also to try to somehow contain the projection. For example, his friend Pedro Campos, who will provide him with accommodation, has not appeared in the media.
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Despite this commitment and effort to keep the visit of the emeritus private – a regatta training session in the estuary and that’s it – the expectation and urgency of information that it arouses is more than evident. We are awaiting his landing, his transfer to Sanxenxo and his appearance at the marina. Not to mention the image aboard the Bribón sailboat. It seems naïve to believe that all this logistics that moves attends only to the desire of Juan Carlos I to train to revalidate his championship title. More attends to his desire to come to Spain and be with his friends, whom he misses. It also seems naive to think that this is not going to have the coverage that it is going to have. It will be a minute by minute. Just like it was last year. We have already seen him in London: his appearance in the box at the Stamford Bridge stadium is the image of the day and the front page of today’s newspapers.