The Minister of Youth and Children, Sira Rego, has decided not to attend the Armed Forces parade taking place this Saturday in Madrid, the central event of the National Day. The event, chaired by the kings and Princess Leonor, was attended by almost the entire government. According to information from the minister’s team, Rego did not participate “because the Izquierda Unida organization jointly decided to do so.”
Also not in the box are the Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, the first vice-president and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero – who is injured – and the head of Equality, Ana Redondo . Rego is the only one who, for the moment, explains her absence by political reasons. In 2022, Alberto Garzón, then coordinator of Izquierda Unida and Minister of Consumer Affairs, attended the military parade.
The one who participated, for the first time in 14 years, is a president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, this year the socialist Salvador Illa.
A total of 4,092 military personnel, 266 motorized vehicles and 210 horses will pass through Paseo del Prado and Plaza de Colón. The 85 planes which were to fly will not be able to do so, due to the heavy rains falling on the capital, which forced Defense to suspend the flypast. Thus, the Eagle Patrol – which paints the national flag in the sky every year – will not be able to fly and the parachutists of the Acrobatic Parachute Patrol of the Air and Space Force (PAPEA) will not be able to fly. will not be able to perform their traditional jump either.
