The spokespersons of the Catalan, Basque and Galician independence parties, with representation in the Madrid Parliament, made public a manifesto rejecting the monarchy. 

In addition, 49 deputies didn't attend the speech by Felipe VI, at the opening of the XIV legislature.

The anti-monarchy manifesto is written in the three languages ​​of these historical nationalities, and in Spanish, and is entitled "We have no King. Democracy, freedom and republics".

The text said: "Catalan, Basque and Galician societies mostly reject the figure of an anachronistic institution inheriting from Francoism that is based on maintaining and imposing the unity of Spain and its laws".

The independence groups added: "The King must stop exercising his guardianship over citizenship and over the governments and parliaments that emanate from the popular will. Only in this way can solutions be found based on respect for popular will, freedom and democracy."

The open rejection of the monarchist institution by the Catalan groups, Ezquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), Junts Per Catalunya (JpCat), and the left-wing coalition CUP, as well as of the Basque group EH-Bildu, and Galician Nationalist Block (BNG), was widely highlighted by the Spanish media, and criticized by state-level parties, as set a new precedent, and its relationship with the current Catalan conflict is undeniable.

The current strength of the independence parties makes the stability of the current Government practically impossible without agreeing with some of them. Indeed, only the vote in favor of the 6 deputies of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), added to the abstention of those of ERC , EH-Bildu and BNG, allowed the formation of the current Coalition Government of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party and Unidas Podemos.

For its part, the Basque Nationalist Party expressed its "uneaseness" for not having been invited to write the manifesto against the Monarchy, although it was very careful in saying whether it would have actually signed it.

Both the media and the Spanish parties avoided entering the reasons set forth by the independentistas, given that the Monarchy is indeed a legitimate and direct heir of the Franco dictatorship, and was never submitted to a referendum but was directly included in the 1978 Constitution, as an inseparable part of the so-called Democratic Transition.