Madrid.- Spain I call queries “sine die” to its ambassador in Buenos Aires and demanded an apology from the Argentine president, Javier Milei, for calling “corrupt” on Sunday to the wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchezduring a rally in Madridannounced the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
“I just called our ambassador in Buenos Aires sine die,” said José Manuel Albares in an institutional message, after denouncing some “very serious” words and “unprecedented in the history of international relations.”
“Spain demands also to the lord Milei public apologies. If these apologies do not occur, we will take all the measures we believe are appropriate to defend our sovereignty,” he added.
But argentine government stated that it is Sanchez who he must excuse himself to Milei.
“No apology is due. No apology. On the contrary, I think there should be several Apologies from the Spanish government for the things they have said about President Milei,” declared the Argentine Interior Minister, Guillermo Francos, to the TN channel, shortly after the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni expressed himself in the same sense on the LN+ channel.
During a speech at a meeting in Madrid of extreme right 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.the Milei allusion The period of reflection that he took to decide whether to resign due to the attacks on his wife allowed the couple to be identified.
“Global elites do not realize how destructive it can be to implement the ideas of the socialism (…), even when he has a corrupt wife, let’s say, he gets dirty [sic]and take five days to think about it,” he said.
Gomez is being investigated for his alleged relationship commercial with companies that received help from the government.
Milei vindicates his speech
Milei responded to the call for consultations by reaffirming what he said in his speech by publishing it again on social networks, stating: “As much as some want to cover the sun with their hands (…), here I leave my words in the VIVA 24 that make you so uncomfortable”.
In a message published on the social network X, the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, expressed his support for the Spanish government. “Attacks against family members of political leaders have no place in our culture: we condemn and reject them, especially when they come from allies,” he said.
The main force of the Spanish opposition, the conservative Popular Party (PP), refused to join the action of the Government, which had asked for support from all the parties in the Spanish Congress.
“Our job is to oppose the president of the Government of Spain, and not the president of Argentina,” said Miguel Tellado, PP spokesman.
Constant disagreements
This new 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” – in his own later apologetic words – of claiming that Milei had ingested “substances” before a speech.
The Argentine Government issued a harsh statement condemning these words, but, after Puente’s apology, the issue had been “settled” and “finished,” according to Adorni on May 6.
Milei was the figure of Sunday’s event, lavishing attacks on socialism and calling for unity from European ultranationalists to confront it.
“It seems that we are few, but we have nothing to fear, because victory on the battlefield does not depend on the number of soldiers, but on the forces that come from heaven,” he stated.
The Madrid event was called by Vox in view of the European elections that will take place on June 9 in Spain. Its leader, Santiago Abascal, defined Milei as “our shining star.”
The rally brought together thousands of people, most of them Spaniards, but also Argentines, Venezuelans and Cubans.
“Far-right international”
This event concluded Milei’s first trip to Spain since he took office in December. A visit that began on Friday and in which she did not meet with any member of the Spanish Government of socialist Pedro Sánchez. He too was not received by King Felipe VI, as is usually the case.
Sánchez, who during the Argentine elections expressed his support for Sergio Massa, Milei’s rival, attacked Sunday’s rally before it began.
“The far-right international meets today in Spain with Abascal and Milei at the head. And they do it here because Spain represents what they hate: feminism, social justice, labor dignity,” Sánchez wrote on the social network X.
Figures from the extreme right also participated in the event, such as the French Marine Le Pen, the Hungarian Prime Ministers, Viktor Orban, and the Italian Prime Ministers, Giorgia Meloni – these two by video – and the Chilean José Antonio Kast.
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