Why, what a king is this!
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I can't tell if this is genuine popular anger, or Leftist hate mongering because of how much of a socialist shithole the country is.
It's genuine popular anger, but it's misplaced. The guy isn't at fault. The monarchy isn't really in charge of this kind of thing.
For those who don't know, freak rains created a flash flood in which 200+ people have died in Valencia. The alarms and emergency SMS' came too late (regional government's fault) and the aid response has been "unsatisfactory" by people's standards (national president's fault). It's Spain's worst humanitarian catastrophe since 1962. Apparently, meteorologists had warned about constructions in flood-risk areas of the city in question, but tourism and other economic factors won out and constructions happened anyway.
The royal couple visited the site, like a vice-president might do, and people directed their stress at them. Since the king's true functions are kinda... "ornamental", he can't be held responsible for the negligence that enabled the catastrophe. This means that the people of the city are actually disgracing themselves in their misplaced anger. It was a shameful event that made a bad situation worse.
an ornamental figure still reprepents the state so it is not misplaced
Perhaps, but it's still embarrassing.
To be honest, this makes more sense, and would seem like the exact kind of misdirection that a Leftist would pull against a monarchy. Like when the Left were screaming about "Queen Elizabeth something something slave trade! Be glad that she's dead!"
I don't know if that's still true, or if that's just generalized incompetence, or if that incompetence is coming from the basis of having a left-wing government.