Javier Milei will return to Spain next month. In the last few hours, the Argentine Presidency confirmed the second trip of the ultra president, which had already been announced months ago on the occasion of the presentation of an award. The Casa Rosada anticipated that he is in contact with the Spanish authorities to try to close a bilateral meeting that this time has eluded him.
“The meetings with Spanish representatives are probably taking place on the second trip he is going to make to Spain, I understand next month,” presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni said at a press conference on Thursday. “I don’t have the details defined yet,” he warned, “when it is confirmed I will tell you.”
On his first trip to Madrid, the Argentine president will not set foot in the Zarzuela or the Moncloa. Until now, the only bilateral meeting took place last December in Buenos Aires: Milei had a cordial meeting with King Felipe VI, who had been invited to the inauguration ceremony. Her relationship is much more tense with the Government of socialist Pedro Sánchez, with whom she has major ideological differences that reached their climax in the diplomatic clash two weeks ago.
“We are not afraid of any inconvenience, well, we have had some misunderstanding,” Adorni responded when asked if there was a risk that the Spanish Government would be upset by his participation in a Vox rally next Sunday. “We don’t have to have any inconvenience. Protocol meetings are being planned for the next trip,” the spokesperson insisted.
The Argentine president’s trip in June was announced three months ago. “President Milei will receive the 2024 Prize from the Juan de Mariana Institute on June 21, along with other leaders from different areas, such as the economist Jesús Huerta de Soto or the writer Mario Vargas Llosa and other personalities of global importance” , Adorni announced at that time.
The prize awarded by the think thank you Spanish recognizes the work of “liberals from around the world,” according to official deputy Alberto Bertie Benegas Lynch, son of the economist of the same name, whom Milei considers his ideological mentor.
According to the provisional agenda, the June trip to Spain will then continue towards Germany, where the Argentine president is scheduled to receive a second award.
In his first five months as head of state of Argentina, Milei has made six international trips, in which the business and party agenda has almost always prevailed over the diplomatic one.
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