The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, will receive this Friday the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, to whom she will award the International Medal of the autonomous community, as announced by the president’s spokesperson, Manuel Adorni. The Madrid president already aligned herself with the Argentine president in the recent diplomatic crisis between the two countries, justifying her outbursts against the head of the Government’s wife and his wife with the argument that the Minister of Transport Óscar Puente, who suggested that Milei consumed drugs, had “defamed him first.”
The Government has decided to maintain protocol deference towards the Argentine head of state during the visit that will begin this Friday, despite his repeated insults towards Pedro Sánchez, according to government sources. Just as he did during his previous visit, on May 18, Milei has requested permission so that his official plane can land this Friday at the Torrejón de Ardoz air base (Madrid) and his escort personnel are authorized to carry weapons. The Executive, according to the sources consulted, has agreed to both requests and the Ministry of the Interior will be in charge of the device to guarantee its security, despite the fact that it has not asked to meet with the President of the Government or with King Felipe VI.
Although the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, warned that the facilities given to the Argentine president in his previous visit would be reviewed, after he spoke out at a Vox rally calling Sánchez’s wife, Begoña, “corrupt.” Gómez, and accusing the president himself of “screwing” himself to power, the Government has not wanted to escalate the diplomatic crisis by putting obstacles to Milei’s visit. After his insults, the Government first called for consultations and then permanently withdrew the Spanish ambassador in Buenos Aires, María Jesús Alonso.
Despite this gesture of hospitality, Milei has not ceased his attacks against the Spanish Government. In an interview with the Argentine channel Tele Noticias, less than 72 before landing in Madrid, Milei declared this Tuesday: “The coward sent all of his ministers to insult me.” “Who is the coward?” asked the interviewer. “Sanchez,” he responded.
“He started with this guy from Transportation,” he said, alluding to Minister Óscar Puente, “and, since I didn’t answer him, he ordered the women to attack me, and then call me a misogynist. Since I didn’t answer, he joined in,” he declared. . “What is advancing regarding freedom of expression is clear that it is Maduro’s model, the one he is applying. What would happen if I did that here? What would the whole prog band do?”
Milei was referring to Minister Puente’s insults to the candidate of the far-right group Se Acabó la Fiesta in the last European elections, Vito Quiles. “My solidarity with the Spanish journalist Vito Quiles, who is being persecuted by the Government of Pedro Sánchez,” he wrote on the social network own attacks against Argentine journalists critical of him, whom he has said are “very dirty.”
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The international medal of the Community of Madrid is awarded, at the personal initiative of the president of the community and by decree, “as a gesture of courtesy and recognition […] to the representatives of other countries and the highest dignitaries of international organizations and the European Union, on an official visit to the Region for their institutional work.” Before Milei, Daniel Noboa, president of Ecuador, has received this medal, created in 2017; Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine; or the president in charge of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó. This award will not be the only one with which Milei will be honored in Madrid. In fact, the reason for his visit was to receive the award from the Juan de Marina Institute, which promotes economic liberalism.
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