US EditionKing Felipe VI Delivers Christmas Speech Calling for Unity
King Felipe VI marked the 50th anniversary of Spain's democratic transition by urging respect and dialogue to counter growing political polarization and public disillusionment.
- On December 24, King Felipe VI delivered his traditional Christmas message standing in the Salón de Columnas of the Royal Palace in Madrid.
- Drawing on the beginning of Spain's democratic transition this year, King Felipe VI framed his speech as a response to political polarisation and repeated electoral cycles.
- Warned of extremism, Felipe VI said extremism, radicalism and populism feed off distrust, misinformation and inequalities, urging politicians and citizens to reject dogmas and engage in dialogue.
- He urged politicians to preserve democratic convivencia and a shared national project, framing dialogue and human rights as necessities to strengthen social cohesion and democratic resilience.
- This year the address arrived amid domestic and international uncertainty, with King Felipe VI invoking Spain's democratic transition years ago to link past cooperation to current challenges.
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The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has supported the words that King Philip VI gave in his traditional Christmas Message, in which he appealed to the...
King Felipe VI delivers Christmas speech calling for unity
King Felipe VI delivered his annual Christmas message on December 24, calling on Spain’s political leaders and citizens to protect democratic coexistence and reaffirm a shared national project amid growing public disillusionment with political tensions. In a speech marked by themes of dialogue and trust, the monarch appealed for respect and responsibility from elected officials and institutions to… Source
On Wednesday, King Philip VI delivered his traditional Christmas Eve speech, which began with a demand for the Democratic Transition, at the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the monarchy. In a scenario marked by "internal and external challenges", the monarch has appealed to coexistence, and has stressed the need to preserve a "country vision" in the face of the tension of public debate, which provokes "taste, disenchantment and disaffecti…
Much Transition, not a word about macho harassment despite the scandals in politics, some allusion to the youth and warnings about polarization and extremism without pointing to anyone, that the kings, it is known, are not to enter into cumbersome details. In the end, an overdose of common places Philip VI alerts to a "crisis of confidence" in the democracies that nourishes the "extremisms" and asks "exemplarity" After listening to Philip VI's C…
Felipe VI recalls that “coexistence is not an enduring legacy” and calls for coexistence in the face of extremism
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