MADRID, 30 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
King Felipe VI returns to Barcelona next Friday, this time accompanied by Queen Letizia, on what will be his sixth visit this year and again with the question of whether there will be a boycott by representatives of the Generalitat and the City Council County.
The King and Queen will attend the late afternoon ceremony to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the Círculo del Liceo, which will be held in the emblematic Barcelona theater that gives it its name and with which it shares a building.
Felipe VI’s visits to Barcelona began this year with his attendance at the dinner for the World Mobile Congress (WMC) at the end of February. Here, the monarch suffered the first ‘ugly’, since he was not received on his arrival by the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonés, nor by the mayor of Barcelona, ??Ada Colau.
Neither Aragonés nor Colau participated in the institutional greeting to the monarch once inside the venue, although they had to share the central table with him and the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, as well as other guests.
At the beginning of April, the King participated in the inauguration of the international ‘Alimentaria’ exhibition. On that occasion, the monarch was accompanied by both Aragonés and Colau. Subsequently, Don Felipe made a visit to the Olympic Port in which the City Council was present but not the Government.
In May, Felipe VI attended the annual meeting of the Cercle d’Economia and was not received on that occasion by any member of the Pere Aragonés government. Hours earlier, he had gone with Doña Letizia to the delivery of the National Research Awards and upon their arrival they were not received by any member of the Government or the City Council, despite the fact that Colau was already inside.
The Minister of Research and Universities, Gemma Geis, was supposed to attend this event, who justified her absence by spying on Catalan political and social leaders with the Pegasus software, arguing that the winner in 2021, Elias Campo, was spied on by Pegasus along with his wife and her son, engineer Elies Campo, one of the authors of the ‘Citizen Lab’ report.
Before the summer, at the beginning of July, together with the Queen, the Princess of Asturias and the Infanta Sofía, she went to neighboring Cornellá de Llobregat, where on this occasion the Princess of Girona Awards were presented, an act in which there was no institutional presence of the Generalitat.
Don Felipe was for the last time in Barcelona on November 13 on the occasion of the inauguration of the Boat Show in the port of Barcelona. So, no adviser from the Government attended while Colau sent his ‘number two’, Jaume Collboni.
