Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Spain's ex-King Juan
Carlos lands in Abu Dhabi: reports
Though Spain is a constitutional
monarchy like the UK or Japan, the royalty still holds significant executive
and legislative power. After Franco's death in November 1975, Juan Carlos
succeeded to the position of King of Spain and head of state. When rebel forces
rose in 1981, the king took personal command of the military and ordered the
coup plotters. After the four-decade-long reign, he abdicated and succeeded the
throne to his son Felipe, the present King of Spain, in 2014, upon which he
lost his immunity from prosecution.
What a person would do
if he or she is free from legal prosecution for such a long period or their
lifetime? Now, the former king of Spain, Juan Carlos fled from his kingdom and
is now in another kingdom whose religion is different from his. It is also
reported that he stays on one of the floors of Emirate’s Palace Hotel. Indeed, the ex-king
still wants to live in a “palace” even in an emirate.
Read the article and think
why the ex-Spanish king is in an emirate, not even one of Spain’s former
colonies, if not his own kingdom.
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