ANDspain announced this Sunday that it will call its ambassador in Buenos Aires in the midst of a tense atmosphere between the Spanish and Argentine governments.
Given this, the Spanish Chancellor, Jose Manuel Albares, gave a press conference to respond to the Argentine leader. Albares also demanded an apology from the Argentine president, otherwise they will take “more measures.”
”I announce that I have just called our ambassador in Buenos Aires for consultations sine die,” said José Manuel Albares in an institutional message, after denouncing a few words “very serious” and without “precedent in the history of international relations.”
Spain also demands public apologies from Mr. Milei. If these apologies do not occur, we will take all the measures we believe are appropriate to defend our sovereignty.
During a speech at a meeting in Madrid of leaders organized by the Spanish party Vox, Milei referred to Begoña Gómez as a “corrupt woman.”
Although he did not identify Sánchez or his wife by name, Milei’s allusion to the period of reflection he took to decide whether to resign due to the attacks on his wife allowed the couple to be identified.
“The global elites do not realize how destructive it can be to implement the ideas of socialism (…), even when the woman is corrupt, let’s say, she gets dirty [sic]and take five days to think about it,” he said.
Gómez is being investigated for her alleged business relationship with companies that received help from the Government.
This disagreement between Madrid and Buenos Aires joins the one that occurred recently due to a few words from the Spanish Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente.
Puente made the “mistake” – according to his own later words of apology – of stating that Milei had ingested “substances” before a speech.
“There are very bad people who, being themselves, have reached the top,” he added, referring to the Argentine president.
The Argentine Government issued a harsh statement condemning these words, but, after Puente’s apology, the issue had been “settled” and “finished,” according to the spokesperson for the Argentine presidency, Manuel Adorni, on May 6.
Milei’s harsh words
This was said in an interview with the Spanish edition of the newspaper The Observerheld in Madrid.
He stressed that he has no crosses with Sánchez and clarified that he never crossed paths with him.
He added: “That the ministers come out in droves to attack me. It must be because they are too few, intellectually not very human, that they all had to go out together to hit one. It must be that Mr. Pedro Sánchez does not dare to have a face.” What do you expect, by adhering to ideas as aberrant as socialism that have been an economic, social or cultural failure, and killed 150 million human beings, have the intellectual height to be able to debate half an idea with me. does not exist”.
Asked about Spain’s economic situation, Milei said that “fortunately” it does not have the misfortune of other countries that have the Central Bank to finance it.
Finally, consulted by a statement from the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who defined him as “the fashionable president” in Europe, Milei said that this hurts “the mediocre Argentine politicians.”
“For this reason, Argentina was being unknown in the world. In my case, every place where I step a revolution is generated,” he emphasized.
In line with this, he added that Time magazine considered him one of the “most important politicians in the world” and that his visit to the World Economic Forum “was an event.”
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