The former president of the Government Felipe González said tonight that defects will be attributed to King Emeritus Juan Carlos I now, but his figure “will be recovered when true history is made.” When asked by journalists on TVE’s La Noche en 24 Horas program, about the information that appears in the media about King Juan Carlos, González stated that he had “a good impression of the king.” “He renounced exercising all the power he had, which was everything and therefore facilitated this constitutional transition,” he added.
In the opinion of Felipe González, “you cannot judge with today’s events what happened at another time, it is always a tremendous historical error. The king was a facilitator of the transition, no European monarchy has gone through the control that the Spanish one has had , including the vote of the institution in the Cortes Generales”.
González, who attended the program on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Suresnes PSOE Congress, the last of those held in exile, reviewed some moments of it, where he came “farthest from the idea that he could be general secretary of the party.” “and valued the policy of pacts and reconciliation during the Transition.
Asked about any politician whose performance he valued, he praised the figure of Ernest Lluc, Minister of Health during his Government, for launching the national health system, for which, he said, for four and a half years he was linking wills. Regarding his time in the Government of Spain, he said that what satisfies him most was his contribution to the reconciliation of the Spanish people to live in peace and freedom.
