Royal Rift: Madrid Fumes as King’s ‘Ban’ Sparks Diplomatic Row with Spain

The same day he sent a verbal note to the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the call between Sánchez and Sheinbaum failed.

Madrid, September 27 (EuropaPress).-The Spanish Government those arrive a formal complaint to Mexico by don’t invite al king Philip VI to the inaugurate the President-elect, Pardo Claudia Sheinbaumhe the same Tuesday before oh publicity your statement announcing the decision not to send representation to the event due to this “unacceptable ban.”

As announced this Friday The Country and diplomatic sources have subsequently confirmed Europa Pressthe Mexican Ambassador in Madrid, Quirino Ordaz, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send a formal complaint about this matter.

In the same way, the Spanish Ambassador in Mexico, Juan Duarte, went personally to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico to deliver a verbal note, as the document in which one country conveys its position on some issue to another is called in jargon diplomatic.

King Felipe VI of Spain during a public event. Photo: Tweet of HM King D. FelipeVI, @SARFelipeVI

In a verbal note, the Government stressed that the King, as head of state, is the one who “assumes the highest representation of the State of Spain in international relations” and recalls that he has attended all the inaugurations of Mexican leaders, include the current one. , André Manuel López Obrador.

In this sense, after defending the need for Spain to be represented at the highest level for the occasion considering the deep ties between the two countries and once “all channels have been exhausted to convey respectfully” that It should be the King who was present at the time. October, the Government informed that “there will be no representation” on the Spanish side.

A day before, there was a telephone conversation between the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and Sheinbaum, which Moncloa had not reported and which was known only because the president-elect revealed its existence on Wednesday. When asked, the Chief Executive managed to avoid going into details out of “discretion.”

That call was the last attempt, after other previous ones through diplomatic channels, to try to change the mind of the Mexican Government, which had chosen to invite Sánchez for the occasion, as Sheinbaum himself revealed on Wednesday, once late on Tuesday the The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued its statement announcing the exclusion of Felipe VI and announcing that Spain would not send a representation.

Sheinbaum justified the decision not to invite the queen because she had never responded to the letter that López Obrador had sent him in March 2019 where, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of independence in 2021, he proposed to organize “a ceremony on the together at the highest level” and that “the Kingdom of Spain expresses in a public and official manner the recognition of the grievances caused” during the Conquest.

Sánchez acknowledged the same day, from New York, his “frustration” with the fact that this disagreement with a progressive government and his “sadness” that “someone’s determined political interest” prevents the two countries from having “the better political relations ”, while maintaining that “Spain has established a position of empathy with Mexican society.”

Sheinbaum and López Obrador during the Municipal Military Parade this Monday, September 16. Photo: Government of Mexico.

For his part, López Obrador has supported his successor and made Spain’s “arrogance” ugly once again. “What does it cost them to offer an apology?” he insisted on Wednesday. Following Sánchez’s words, on Thursday he wanted to make it clear that this request “is not a personal matter, but one of respect for the people.”