Felipe VI celebrates 9 years as "Constitutional King", "with the same solidity and enthusiasm" and "looking to the future"

Felipe VI celebrates this June 19 his ninth anniversary on the throne. A date that the Head of State has spent fulfilling his agenda. However, the celebration has coincided with a day of significant burden in their public commitments. King Abdalá and King Rania of Jordan are on a business trip to Spain on the occasion of the Aqaba process. That is why Don Felipe, during the lunch held at the Royal Palace that they have organized together with the Queen, has spoken a few words, in which he has reflected on this date.

“Throughout these 9 years, I have carried out my responsibilities with a sense of duty and institutional respect; with loyalty to the citizens -honoring my commitments to the Spanish people- and to constitutional values and principles; always with a willingness to serve Spain , of which the Crown is a symbol of its unity and permanence”, has summarized Don Felipe, making his own the duties that the Constitution mandates in the articles that regulate the figure of the Head of State. Felipe VI has assured that nine years ago, in his proclamation speech, he shared with the Spanish his “convictions, feelings and will”, which continue “with the same enthusiasm” nine years later. Don Felipe has assured that “the sense and meaning” of that speech “has not changed” and that they will continue to “orient him towards the future”: “guiding my actions as Constitutional King”, he expressed in a speech prior to a lunch that for at one point it seemed like a renewal of what was promised nine years ago.

However, this time his audience was the King and Queen of Jordan, with whom they are joined by “a very close friendship, a reciprocal, deep and sincere understanding”, recalled Don Felipe. The Monarchs will travel together this afternoon to Córdoba, where they will participate in a dinner prior to the Aqaba process, an initiative launched by Abdalá in 2015 to improve coordination and the exchange of experience and information to combat terrorism and extremism.. It is the first time that it has been held in Spain and for this reason, both Heads of State will inaugurate the peace conferences in Córdoba on Tuesday.

Felipe VI recalled that the city is a symbol of “coexistence and civilization” at a key moment in the search for peace, a value that “is being questioned in the world”, stated the King, recalling “Russia's unjust aggression against Ukraine, which has again brought war to Europe by breaking the sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and its territorial integrity”. But Don Felipe has not only remembered Ukraine, the King has spoken of the conflict in Palestine -the oldest and most central of all-, assuring that the just and lasting solution “goes through the materialization of the States, which we must preserve”. The King recalled the role of Jordan as custodian of the esplanade of the Mosques and stated that “Spain and Jordan must continue working together to achieve the resolution of these conflicts based on international legality”.