Overview
- All parliamentary groups except the PSOE and the PP plan to skip Friday’s Congress event marking the start of the Transition.
- Vox confirmed its absence, with spokesperson Pepa Millán calling the commemoration an “ode to Sánchez’s totalitarian regime.”
- Sumar, which first signaled non-attendance via its representatives on the Congress Bureau, cites the Crown’s failure to publicly break with Franco and references the emeritus king’s memoirs.
- Independentist and nationalist parties such as ERC, Junts, PNV, EH Bildu and BNG object over republican principles and lingering anger over Felipe VI’s 2017 unity speech.
- The King and Queen will attend with Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía, with journalists Fernando Ónega and Iñaki Gabilondo moderating a panel including Juan Pablo Fusi, Juan José Laborda, Adela Cortina and Rosario García Mahamut.