He abdicated after the hunt
Juan Carlos was abdicated after his hunt. Spanish media speculated about the King's future in early 2014, following public criticism of his participation in an elephant hunt in Botswana and an embezzlement scandal involving his daughter. Cristina and her husband Iñaki Urdangarin. The King's Chief of Staff denied in a press conference that the "option to abdicate" was under consideration.
As required by the Spanish constitution, any abdication would be resolved by an organic act. A draft law was passed with 299 supporters, 19 opponents, and 23 abstentions. On June 18, he signed the organic law passed by parliament hours before his abdication took effect. Juan Carlos is the fourth European monarch to abdicate in just over a year, after Pope Benedict XVI, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, and King Albert II of Belgium.
The Spanish constitution at the time of the abdication did not grant legal immunity to a head of state, but the government changed the law to allow this. Unlike his previous immunity, however, the new law holds him accountable to the supreme court, following a similar type of protection afforded to many high-ranking civil servants and politicians in Spain.
