Clearly, Spanish legality can stand up to anything if it is a matter of protecting the state. Once again, the procedural Bureau in the Congress of Deputies will prevent the hearing of a petition made by practically all of the house's pro-independence and nationalist parties, along with Unidas Podemos, to create a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the murky economic affairs of the king emeritus Juan Carlos I. Even though on this occasion the petition had been carefully expressed to avoid the prerogatives of inviolability and non-accountability included in the Constitution, and the terms of reference were limited to the period since his resignation from the role of head of state, via his abdication in June 2014, the congressional lawyers seem to have found the new philosopher’s stone which allows any investigation to be avoided.
The learned scholars argue as follows: “this current request [for a commission of inquiry] refers to issues which, although they may have become projected at a later stage, correspond without any break in their continuity with the period of time in which His Majesty Juan Carlos I was the head of state and arise from the very fact of his occupation of the head of state position." That is, in plain language: if an investigation were to be opened now it would not be known what was from before 2014 and what was from after. Therefore, it is best to forget about any investigation, in this case, a parliamentary one.
I imagine that the lawyers of Congress are fully aware of what they are asserting and which, in practical terms, ends up meaning that inviolability is for life, whether one leaves or does not leave the position of head of state. It is clear that, even if the situation is tied up, and well tied up, via the majority given by the PSOE, PP, Vox and Ciudadanos, the state has a great fear of a parliamentary commission of inquiry and that some legal argument might end up reversing the sense of the Constitution itself.
What the guardians of the state may not realize is that the over-protection of Juan Carlos I, when so much is already known, does nothing but weaken the parliamentary monarchy as a form of state. Protecting corruption weakens those who are behind it and in this case, in a very special way, the royal family. There is no separation between father and son if the son continues to protect the father, which is, in practice, what is happening in Spain. And this will not be corrected with a tour around Spain as has been announced now in the midst of the Corona crisis.