Spain’s Parliamentary Monarchy Has Served The Country Well – Analysis

By William Chislett

A seminal person was missing last month from the official events to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of General Franco, the dictator who ruled Spain from 1939 to 1975 after winning a three-year civil war. That person was King Juan Carlos, Franco’s successor as head of state, who, using the dictator’s authoritarian powers, piloted a large part of the country’s transition to democracy and bravely faced down an attempted coup in 1981 by nostalgic Francoists.[1]

Juan Carlos...