All media suspend their usual programming due to the King's abdication
At 10:32 in the morning, the President of the Government announced the abdication of the King. Once the news was known, televisions and radios from all over the world have connected live with Madrid.
The Presidency of the Government had summoned all the media for an urgent appearance by Mariano Rajoy from the Moncloa Palace.
At 10:32 in the morning, the President of the Government announced the abdication of the King. “King Juan Carlos will personally make his decision public,” he stated, announcing that an extraordinary Council of Ministers will be convened today to address this issue. Parliament will now have to approve an organic law as the procedure for the monarch's abdication has not been established.
Once the news was known, television and radio stations from all over the world rushed to the vicinity of the palaces of La Moncloa and Zarzuela, as well as to the Congress of Deputies, to cover this historic news.
The abdication of King Juan Carlos I of Spain, aged 76, follows that of Albert II of Belgium, Beatrice of Holland, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and the Emir of Qatar Hamad Ben Jasem Al-Jalifa.
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