But his speech was intolerable and too much sided with the government.
Naturally he threw away any possibility of being a bridge between Madrid and Barcelona (assuming Madrid ever wanted Felipe to play such role).
I guess JC would have been more independent from the government.
I said I would not speak of his disastrous interventione in Catalonia, and here we are discussing it again.
The matter, here, is Felipe's notorious and indisputable submission to Letizia .
--Previous Message--
: I think you are very unfair to the King, who
: is naturally quite shy but has a very clear
: vision of the future of the monarchy. He is
: a constitutional monarch and has sworn tom
: respect the constitution. The Catalan
: nationalists who primarily come from rural
: Catalonia, have no right at all to force the
: break-up of Spain. 90% of Catalonians voted
: for the 1978 Constitution and until 2007
: those demanding independence were no more
: than 15% of the voting electorate. But the
: financial crisis changed everything and it
: was fear of the financial corruption at the
: heart of the Generalitat that encouraged
: those who had not previously called for
: independence to do so, to disguise their own
: responsibility and conceal the corruption.
: The fact is that the nationalists blatantly
: broke the law, occupied public buildings and
: had illegal ballots printed (most of the,
: BTW, by a company owned by a French Catalan
: nationalists in Perpignan, which the French
: Catalans would like to incorporate into this
: fantasy Catalan state), and then
: deliberately put the elderly and young where
: they would be the first to confront the
: security forces. The police were tougher
: than they probably needed to be (but then by
: the standards of the French CRS they were
: positively restrained) but it would have
: been entirely inappropriate for the King as
: head of state to have criticised the
: national police. Would anyone seriously have
: expected the king, as a constitutional head
: of state, to have criticised the government?
:
: --Previous Message--
:
: I totally agree with you. What I have
: observed
: over the years, is that Letizia was nice and
: sweet until she a) married Felipe and b)
: became queen and took precedence over her
: mother-in-law.
:
: Letizia nice and sweet ?
:
: Do you live in Mars ?
:
: Remember that at the her engagement in front
: of all the press, wih her ill-education, she
: almost told Felipe to shut up while so that
: she could speak and take over the situation.
:
: Letizia is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
: She finally let her mask fall.
: I do not appreciate that much Marie-Chantal
: but, givem her knowledge of Letizia, and fed
: up with her attitudes, ahe decided to apeak
: her mind.
:
: Letizia is a freak controller of her husband
: and daughters.
: She has managed to isolate Felipe from her
: family and friends.
: Felipe, despite what he may look like, is a
: weak and feeble person, both personal and
: politically.
:
: I will not speak about his disastrous
: intervention in the Catalonia issue who
: certainly lost him a greta deal of support,
: but in family matters, it is obvious that he
: submits to Letizia wishes.
: She is the one who "wears the
: trousers" in the couple.
:
: And he doesn't mind that being known with
: that.
: So much for the latin machism...
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