King Charles III will not be present at the international summit on climate change (COP27) in Egypt, scheduled for November, and the British press indicates that the decision came after the opposition of the British Prime Minister, Liz Truss.
According to the Sunday Times newspaper, the Conservative leader will have opposed the monarch’s participation in the conference, when he met the king last month at Buckingham Palace. While there was no official disclaimer, other British media cited the palace and unnamed government sources to explain that Charles III made the decision not to attend the event after consulting with the prime minister and that any suggestion of disagreement was false.
Under the rules governing the British constitutional monarchy, the king is prohibited from interfering in politics. By convention, all official visits abroad by members of the royal family are carried out in accordance with government advice. and such a decision would have resulted from consultations and agreements.
Before he became king, when Elizabeth II died on September 8, there was speculation that Charles would travel to the top in his old role as Prince of Wales. Carlos participated in the previous climate summit (COP26) last year in Glasgow, Scotland, but his participation in this year’s conference was never confirmed. COP27 takes place from November 16-18 in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
In November, still as Prince Charles, the King traveled to Egypt, then with the agreement of the Government, to support the efforts of the Egyptian authorities in environmental matters, having met with President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. The monarch herself has always shown a deep commitment to environmental issues and for decades she has publicly called for policies to mitigate climate change.
Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood said he hoped common sense would prevail and the king would be allowed to go to Egypt because “King Charles is a respected voice around the world” and his presence would strengthen the British delegation. he was accused of meddling in government affairs. After ascending the throne, the new British monarch admitted that he would have less freedom to express himself publicly. “My life will naturally change as I take on my new responsibilities,” the king said in a televised address after his mother’s death.
“It will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energy to charities and the issues that matter so much to me. But know that this important work will continue in the hands of others”, term.
Source: Observadora
