King Philip VI won last year 242,769 euros, 20,230 euros a month, while his wife, Queen Letizia, won 109,260 euros. In 2018, the Spanish royal family earned a total of 679,818 euros in salary and the annual budget of the Casa del Rey was 7.9 million euros, of which 3.8 million were for personal spending. But also the senior officials, outside the real family, had an annual income of up to 100,000 euros.

If that were not enough, the portrait of Philip VI.aren, which a few days ago hung up in the Congress of Deputies, cost EUR 88.000. These are the official data that has just been made public, which has to be paid for everyone's taxes.

It is not true that there is a lack of money to cover the needs of the poorest sectors of society, despite the fact that there are millions of people who do not even have a minimum wage of EUR 900 or a minimum pension of EUR 634. Last week we denounced in this corner that states spend billions of euros on arms. We now know what is being spent in the Spanish State to maintain the anachronistic monarchy.

There are no social policies promoting equality, let alone anti-militarist policies: wealth is not properly distributed. Is it not shameful that Felipe V.ak receives EUR 20.230 per month from our taxes when there is that minimum wage and those miserable pensions? Is it fair and just and reasonable that kings and ex-kings should each year carry 100 million old pesetas?

Maintaining the monarchy today, as well as being extemporaneous and undemocratic – because we have not chosen it – is an enormous economic cost and an insult when compared to the salaries and pensions of the majority of the population. On the other hand, we citizens should decide whether or not we want that to be the case.