ANDThe president of Argentina, Javier Milei, announced this Tuesday with a message on his social networks that he does not plan to cancel his trip to Spain next June 21 to receive an award from a Spanish liberal think tank.
“We will see how far totalitarianism reaches in blood… Warning, I will travel to receive the Juan de Mariana Award“, wrote the Argentine president in his profile on the social network
We will see if his great inferiority complex allows the Spanish liberals to award me in person.
“We will see if his great inferiority complex allows the Spanish liberals to award me in person,” Milei added.
Diplomatic relations between Argentina and Spain They are going through a moment of special complexity since last Sunday, when the president of the South American country described Sánchez as a “sleaze” and called his wife, Begoña Gómez, “corrupt”, during an event organized by the Vox party in Madrid.
For his part, far from issuing a public apology for his statements, Milei has intensified his criticism of Sánchez and has linked Spain’s diplomatic actions with Kirchnerism, the Argentine political movement initiated by former Peronist presidents Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and Cristina Fernández (2007-2015).
In the internal sphere of Spanish politics, the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, stated that the Spanish Government “intends to prohibit a single man from entering Spain for defending himself against Sánchez’s insults.”
“The autocrat is unleashed”he stated in a message published in X, which was replicated by Milei himself.
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Amid the tensions, the Spanish Chamber of Commerce offered to help resolve the diplomatic conflict between the Spanish and Argentine governments generated by recent statements by the president of the South American country.
As a “natural bridge” between the public and private sectors of both countries, “we make ourselves fully available to contribute to the recovery of dialogue and understanding at all levels that contribute to continuing to strengthen Spain–Argentina economic relations who, in general, enjoy good health and promising future prospects”.
Next, he considers it important that “companies continue to have the greatest institutional support in a strategic market (Argentina) for many of them, and where they are doing excellent work with a high level of economic and social commitment in the country.
Sánchez defends the withdrawal of his ambassador in Argentina
Meanwhile, the head of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, considered this Wednesday that the withdrawal of the Spanish ambassador in Argentina is “proportionate” to the attacks received by the president of this country, Javier Milei, and the fact that he has confirmed his “insults” and has not rectified them.
The withdrawal of the Spanish ambassador in Argentina is proportional to the attacks received by the president of this country, Javier Milei
Furthermore, the president pointed out that this is a common practice as an act of formal protest.
Thus, “we remember precedents such as the withdrawal of the Spanish ambassadors in Syria or Venezuela during the Government of the conservative Mariano Rajoy”, who, he highlighted, went so far as to declare the Venezuelan ambassador in Spain persona non grata.
Sánchez regretted that instead of rectifying, as he had been asked, Milei has been ratified “in insult and attack”and for this reason it was decided to retire the ambassador.
*With information from EFE
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