The president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, has insisted this Thursday, at a press conference after his first ordinary Council as head of the Galician government, that he has not yet had an “express communication” of the visit of Don Juan Carlos, since this Thursday to Galicia, specifically, to Sanxenxo. And he has recalled that this weekend the extraordinary congress of the PPdeG is being held, which will take place in Pontevedra on Saturday and Sunday (May 21-22), and from which the president will be elected. «Time is not going to come to me for everything that the celebration of that congress means for me. My forecast is to be focused on the congress and all that it entails », he said. There will be, therefore, meeting and photo.
Already the day before it manifested itself in that same line. “It’s going to be a very busy weekend, at least for me,” he told the media.
This Thursday, the Galician president has stuck to his statements in recent days. He has once again expressed that he considers the arrival of Don Juan Carlos to be “good news”, and that he “celebrates” that he has chosen Galicia for his reappearance in Spain. What he has not wanted to go into is whether he should offer explanations about his conduct. In this sense, he has stuck to the fact that he has “every right” to come to Sanxenxo and to “choose any place in Spain”, since he has “no pending case”. That the town of Pontevedra is the chosen location, he sees as a “good circumstance”, with which he believes that the majority of Galicians agree.
As he has also said on more than one occasion, since the King Emeritus’s trip became known, he has conceded that there may be opinions of all kinds, but he has left a message between the lines when he has recalled that certain people, contrary to the Monarchy, never it will seem “good” to them, nor will they “agree” with the presence of Don Juan Carlos.
Finally, he has once again been tickled for his words at Cope, when he stated that the presence these days in Galicia of Don Felipe’s father, in some way, puts the Community on the “map”. This Thursday he has remarked that he said it from a point of view of the “promotion” of the territory, that “they speak, as they are speaking, of Galicia.” Especially, “at a time when tourism begins” its strong season. “It’s not a bad thing, far from it,” he stressed.
Already on Wednesday, in this line, he recalled that Sanxenxo is “one of the tourist references in Galicia and the rest of the country”, so from a perspective of the imminent start of the summer season, its presence constitutes “good news”. In addition, he contextualized the choice of the Pontevedra town: «It is far from the first time he is going to be there. He knows many people who many times expressed their affection for him ».
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