{"id":63658,"date":"2026-02-25T18:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=63658"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:12:58","slug":"the-smokescreen-of-23-f-turns-against-sanchez-over-the-role-of-king-juan-carlos-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/25\/the-smokescreen-of-23-f-turns-against-sanchez-over-the-role-of-king-juan-carlos-i\/","title":{"rendered":"The smokescreen of 23-F turns against S\u00e1nchez over the role of King Juan Carlos I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another failure for the coalition government of socialists and communists with its increasingly blatant diversionary tactics.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/23\/the-inconvenient-headlines-for-sanchez-that-coincide-with-his-23-f-smokescreen\/\">The inconvenient headlines for S\u00e1nchez that coincide with his 23-F smokescreen<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/18\/the-stalinist-censorship-of-bolanos-and-pedro-sanchez-against-king-emeritus-juan-carlos-i\/\">The Stalinist censorship of Bola\u00f1os and Pedro S\u00e1nchez against King Emeritus Juan Carlos I<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>One of the possible purposes of this smokescreen, according to some analysts, was <strong>an attempt to damage the Monarchy by questioning its role during the coup attempt of February 23, 1981.<\/strong> It's worth remembering that the government, and especially its far-left partners, have been launching attacks against the Monarchy for years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/04\/the-government-mounts-a-campaign-against-the-king-to-cover-up-sanchezs-cowardice-in-paiporta\/\">One of their clearest attacks on the Crown took place in November 2024<\/a>, after S\u00e1nchez fled Paiporta in the face of the anger of residents affected by the floods, who were abandoned by the government for four days. <strong>King Felipe VI stayed, and that left S\u00e1nchez even more exposed<\/strong>, something that annoyed the socialists.<\/p>\n<p>The declassification of documents about the 23-F coup attempt has revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20260225\/dejar-borbon-libre-error-golpistas-senalaron-fracaso-23f_389368.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the coup plotters pointed to King Juan Carlos I as the architect of their failure<\/a>, considering that their first mistake was to <em>\"leave the Bourbon free and treat him as if he were a gentleman.\"<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/espana\/2026-02-25\/ultima-hora-de-la-desclasificacion-de-los-documentos-del-golpe-de-estado-del-23-f-reacciones-tras-la-aprobacion-del-gobierno-en-directo.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Even pro-government media outlets, such as El Pa\u00eds, are highlighting this<\/a>, <strong>which reaffirms the key role of King Juan Carlos I in thwarting that coup.<\/strong> In fact, the declassified documents also reveal that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20260225\/interior-detecto-campana-bulos-intentaba-implicar-juan-carlos-i-23f_389359.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the attempts by the far right to implicate the King in the coup<\/a>, <strong>in an attempt to <em>\"diminish the criminal responsibility of those prosecuted for those acts\"<\/em><\/strong>, and also for <em>\"the possibility of having an argument against the Crown that would make a similar attempt possible in the future\".<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A week ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/18\/the-stalinist-censorship-of-bolanos-and-pedro-sanchez-against-king-emeritus-juan-carlos-i\/\">I pointed out here<\/a> that <strong>Juan Carlos I played a courageous role in the face of the 23-F coup attempt<\/strong>, preventing Spain from reliving the terrible years of the civil war that littered our country with corpses between 1936 and 1939. <strong>The declassified documents reaffirm the role of the King Emeritus at that time<\/strong> and do so, moreover, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/18\/the-stalinist-censorship-of-bolanos-and-pedro-sanchez-against-king-emeritus-juan-carlos-i\/\">a few days after the government removed Juan Carlos I from an exhibition on the Constitution<\/a>, the first copy of which bears the signature of that monarch, who was the one who defended the constitutional order against the coup plotters in 1981. A role that was captured in one of the most emblematic images of the Transition: <strong>the King in his office and in military uniform confronting the coup d'\u00e9tat through television<\/strong>, a fundamental intervention to thwart that attempt to liquidate our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, as I denounced here in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/12\/18\/don-juan-carlos-i-y-un-signo-claro-de-que-espana-esta-cediendo-ante-el-despotismo\/\">the King Emeritus suffers an infamous situation of de facto exile<\/a>, <strong>without having been convicted or even prosecuted for any crime<\/strong>, something that cannot be said of S\u00e1nchez's personal circle and political entourage. A week ago, I already pointed out that <strong>the most corrupt government in the history of democracy keeps Juan Carlos I in exile because it does not consider him an exemplary figure<\/strong>, as if this government were in a position to give lessons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the end, this smokescreen has backfired on the government itself<\/strong>, exposing its petty role in a radically unfair treatment of <strong>one of the most important living historical figures in our history<\/strong>, a man who played a fundamental role in the return of democracy to Spain and in the defense of our constitutional order against a coup that could have had a disastrous outcome for our country. <strong>What remains to be asked is that the King Emeritus return to Spain to live out his final days in his homeland<\/strong>, from which he was expelled by a government in the hands of two parties that lost the last general elections and that remain in power thanks to the support of, among others, <strong>parties that carried out the second coup d'\u00e9tat of our democracy: that of October 1, 2017 in Catalonia<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/06\/26\/amnesty-the-greatest-act-of-corruption-in-the-entire-history-of-democracy-in-spain\/\">a coup that S\u00e1nchez has tried to erase by granting amnesty to its perpetrators<\/a> in exchange for their support for his re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the government must now direct its sudden desire for transparency toward explaining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20250720\/sanchez-obligado-desvelar-quien-invito-falcon-122-vuelos-entre-sospechas-usaron-protagonistas-tramas-corrupcion_317935.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the use of more than 100 flights of the official Falcon jets<\/a> (many of them to the Dominican Republic, one of the key locations in the corruption schemes linked to the government), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20220125\/sanchez-declara-secreto-coste-resultados-fallida-gira-estados-unidos.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the cost of its tours<\/a> international and his vacations (paid for by all Spaniards through their taxes), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20260109\/gobierno-oculta-llamadas-whatsapps-durante-dana-mientras-exige-dimision-feijoo-hacer-publicos-suyos_372502.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its communications during the Valencia floods in 2024<\/a> (when the government waited four long days to sending the Army to help those affected) and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/01\/26\/esto-es-lo-que-se-sabe-de-las-actas-aun-secretas-que-podrian-haber-enviado-a-zapatero-a-prision\/\">the minutes of the negotiations between the PSOE and ETA from two decades ago<\/a> (an infamous political negotiation by the Socialists with a terrorist group), which are some of the matters the Socialists keep secret. <strong>Or should that part of our memory be locked away, Mr. S\u00e1nchez?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another failure for the coalition government of socialists and communists with its increasingly blatant diversionary tactics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10398],"tags":[24688,2078,693,2721],"class_list":["post-63658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-coup-detat-of-february-23-1981-in-spain","tag-juan-carlos-i","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}