The electoral regatta of the emeritus king stings in La Zarzuela

The trips and private plans of the emeritus king, Juan Carlos I, continue to upset La Zarzuela.

His unilateral improvisations, and the uncontrolled versions that are broadcast from his environment, sting and begin to bother the agenda and the precisely measured work program of the current Royal House.

The sporting displacement scheduled for this coming week, in which Juan Carlos I will move from Abu Dhabi to Sanxenxo (Pontevedra) to participate in a sailing regatta as mere training for a future world championship, has once again disrupted the objectives of Felipe VI's team to avoid noise and controversy around the Crown.

The emeritus king maintains that trip, but now his environment questions the meal announced for this Tuesday in London with King Carlos III,

although not his live presence to see the confrontation there between Real Madrid and Chelsea.

Zarzuela confirms that the previous head of state was asked that this transfer not be made before the local elections on May 28 "because of its inopportuneness" and he did not pay attention to that suggestion.

The forecast that remains valid for now is that the private

registered in Aruba (Netherlands Antilles), owned by the Angolan company Bestfly and that the Sheikh Emir and his friend Mohamed bin Zayed provided almost a year ago, will land again this Wednesday, April 19, at the Peinador airport, in Vigo, around eight in the afternoon.

It is also organized that Juan Carlos I, 85, return to stay at the residence maintained in that Galician town by his friend Pedro Campos, recently re-elected president of the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo and skipper of the Bribón boat, with which he has competed for

. a few years for his mobility problems in the 6mR class.

What the king emeritus has once again conveyed to Campos and his crewmates on the

is that he wants to resume the tone of the sailing competition, in this monthly preparatory series for the Spanish championships, with an eye on the competition that It will be held at the end of August on the British Isle of Wight, where they intend to revalidate their previous world championship.

In the first plan drawn up by Juan Carlos I and his entourage, the idea was that he could train with the boat for at least a couple of days, possibly up to three, 20, 21, and even 22, and leave for his next stage that Saturday night. late or already on Sunday the 23rd. That aspect is about to close.

The monarch will not return directly from Vigo to Abu Dhabi, where he has been residing for almost 1,000 days, when in August 2020 he left Spain from that point to theoretically lower the level of exposure to various controversies and scandals in which he was involved.

Those problems have already been judicially overcome, but not the expectation that he raises every time he announces his appearance in Spain again.

And it is this attention and interest that does not quite fit in with the new style imposed in La Zarzuela by Felipe VI.

The lack and bad communication between Felipe VI and his team and his father's team also influences, and a lot, according to direct sources on both sides.

In the case of this new trip to Sanxenxo, it has once again been made clear that the data and information they provide does not match.

Sources close to the emeritus point out that the intention of Juan Carlos I to go to the Pontevedra estuary on March 25 was anticipated to La Zarzuela and that they only received the indication that the trip should be scheduled outside the next electoral period, that is, Neither in May nor in June, due to the proximity to the appointment with the 28-M polls.

In the Royal House they assure that they found out about the trip project to Galicia through the media, although they do admit that the only message that was raised was that it would be better for this transfer to be made after the elections because the current king had already signed the decree of its convocation and this type of displacement in a climate of campaign was not considered “opportune”.

In the Royal House they are unaware of everything about the intention of Juan Carlos I to go to London, on Tuesday the 18th, for an alleged bilateral and private lunch with King Carlos III or his claim to be present at the second leg of the Champions League that night between Chelsea and Real Madrid.

That food, now, is in the air, according to what they point out in the environment of the emeritus king and accuse La Zarzuela of interfering in that relationship, which the Royal House emphatically denies and alludes to the fact that its British counterpart has clarified to various media that it does not knew nothing about it.

Juan Carlos I's project of watching the Real Madrid game live is still ongoing.

Felipe VI and Queen Letizia are invited and will go to London on May 6 for the coronation of Carlos III.

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