Spain has announced that it will boycott the ceremony scheduled for October 1 “as a sign of protest.”
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Wednesday that the fact of deliberately not inviting King Felipe VI, the Spanish head of state, to the inauguration of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, was “inexplicable and unacceptable”. This “sidelining” of “Our head of state (…) seems to us not only unacceptable, but totally inexplicable”Pedro Sánchez said at a press conference at the UN in New York, as Spain announced it would boycott the ceremony scheduled for October 1. “as a sign of protest”.
“Spain and Mexico are brother peoples. Therefore, we cannot accept this exclusion, and that is why we have informed the Mexican government that there will be no diplomatic representative of the Spanish government as a sign of protest.”The Spanish Prime Minister also said: “his great frustration” since it is about “of a progressive government”as “We”. “I believe that Spain has shown empathy towards Mexican society”he added.
“Two brother countries, two brother peoples»
Asked about the need for Spain to apologize to Mexico for its colonial past, Pedro Sánchez explained that his country had “already explained his position on the subject”. While he did not specify this position, he said “his immense gratitude to a great Mexican president like Lázaro Cárdenas” for having welcomed “hundreds of thousands of Spaniards fleeing civil war and Francoist repression”.
He finally regretted it with “It is a great sadness that two brother countries, two brother peoples, cannot have the best possible political relations because of the political interests of one”The King of Spain never responded to a letter from the outgoing Mexican president sent in 2019 proposing to recognize “in a public and official manner” THE “damages” caused by the conquest, President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum explained on Wednesday.
A week ago, Mexico published the list of guests for the inauguration ceremony of the first female president in the country’s history, elected under the banner of the ruling leftist party Morena, including Pedro Sánchez, but not the King of Spain. Felipe VI was not on the list, which included the main leaders of the Latin American left, starting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and US First Lady Jill Biden. During his term, outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had twice declared a “break” in the relationship with Spain, the former colonial power.
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