Overview
- The king centered his nine‑minute message on convivencia and confidence, warning that a crisis of trust feeds extremisms, radicalisms and populisms.
- He anchored the appeal to shared memory by speaking standing in the Royal Palace’s Salón de Columnas, invoking 50 years since the Transition and nearly 40 years since EU accession.
- PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo and regional barons praised the call to the Constitution and European project, with figures like Ayuso, Moreno and López Miras highlighting the focus on coexistence.
- Leaders from Podemos, Sumar and the PCE condemned the address as generic and said it ignored dictatorship, housing, inequality and foreign crises, with Enrique Santiago citing Palestine and Trump’s challenge to international law.
- ERC’s Oriol Junqueras and JxCat’s Jordi Turull attacked the monarchy’s role since 2017, accusing Felipe VI of endorsing repression during the Catalan crisis, while some PSOE voices like Emiliano García‑Page stressed the message of a shared national project.