Insults for Pedro Sánchez in 12-O and the Fleece that Letizia discreetly kept in her bag

Pedro Sánchez has taken to the limit the strategy of speeding up time to avoid social protest in the central event of the National Holiday. The President of the Government waited inside his official vehicle near the Plaza de Cánovas del Castillo until a few minutes before the arrival of the Royal Family delegation.

The maneuver, designed to dissolve the boos among the applause and cheers dedicated to Don Felipe, Doña Letizia, the Princess of Asturias and the Infanta Sofía, has not prevented a loud whistle from resounding loudly again when the head of the Executive descended, with shouts of: Pedro Sánchez son of a bitch! or Ceuta is not for sale!, evidencing a wear and tear on the street that has haunted him uninterruptedly for six years.

Don Felipe rotates the uniforms every year, so on this occasion, he wears the Ejercito del Aire dress uniform. The head of state is the captain general of the Armed Forces. His daughter, the Princess of Asturias, wears the Army uniform. This year he has completed the three years of military training and next year he will receive his office as lieutenant in the three academies and although he has dropped his fleece, he has naturally kept it in his pocket and later the Queen kept it in her bag.

For her part, Doña Sofía 'skips' the protocol as Queen Letizia already did one year when she was Princess. Although military events require short dresses for women, the young woman - like so many of her time - has chosen a red jacket and pants suit. Doña Letizia debuts a pink dress and, for the first time, elevates the solemnity of the day by decorating her lapel with a brooch from Queen Victoria Eugenia's batch of jewelry.

The Kings have been received with heated displays of affection by the thousands of citizens gathered along the Paseo del Prado. The protocol stamp has served as a contrast to the climate of strong partisan polarization that surrounds the Moncloa, where gestures of popular rejection have once again taken over the run-up to the military stoppage.

The political board of the day reveals notable fissures both in territorial representation and in the Council of Ministers itself. Added to the already confirmed casualties of the regional presidents of Navarra and Andalusia is the absence of a group of members of the Cabinet, with empty seats such as those of Óscar Puente, Sira Rego or Pablo Bustinduy. This void in the authorities' forum reflects the calculated ideological distance with which certain members of the Executive continue to face the national holiday.

THE PARADE ITSELF

The design of the parade this year moves its symbolic axis to the southern border. The absence of the military personnel stationed in Ceuta, retained in the autonomous city due to the demands of operational deployment after the incidents at the end of July, leaves the representation of the North African enclaves in the hands of the Melilla Regulars squad. This unit will close the march on foot with its slow pace of 90 steps per minute, in an obvious counterpoint to the cadence of 160 strides of the third Don Juan of Austria of the Legion, flanked by the goat Babieca.

The aerial deployment will color the Madrid sky with 34 fighter planes, 16 transport planes and 32 helicopters, including three Bombardier aircraft from the 43 Group after their campaign in the summer forest fires. By land, the technical and budgetary focus will be on three 8x8 Dragon vehicles, the armored vehicles that accumulate continuous setbacks in their delivery to the Army and whose exhibition seeks to project normality in the management of the Defense portfolio.