Tension between Spain and Argentina: European country demands an apology from Javier Milei

Spain He called his ambassador in Buenos Aires for “sine die” consultations and demanded an apology from the president. Argentinian, Javier Mileifor calling the wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, “corrupt” this Sunday, during a rally in Madrid, the Minister of Foreign Affairs announced.

“I announce to you that I have just called our ambassador in Buenos Aires for consultations sine die,” said José Manuel Albares in an institutional message, after denouncing some “very serious” words 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,” Albares added.

What did Milei say?

During a speech at a meeting in Madrid of far-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, 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 assured.

Gómez is being investigated for her alleged business relationship 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.”

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The first party 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, spokesperson for the PP.

– 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” – according to his own later words of apology – of stating 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 the spokesperson for the Argentine presidency, Manuel Adorni, on May 6.

Milei was the star of Sunday’s event, lavishing attacks on socialism and calling for unity among 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 number of soldiers, but of the forces that come from heaven,” he stated.

The Madrid event was called by the Spanish party 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 in the Vistalegre pavilion in Madrid, among whom there were a majority of Spaniards, but also Argentines, Venezuelans and Cubans.- “Extreme right-wing international” –

This Sunday’s event concludes Javier Milei’s first trip to Spain since he became president of Argentina in December. A visit that began on Friday and in which he did not meet with any member of the Spanish Socialist Government Pedro Sanchez. Nor was it received by the king Philip VIas is often 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 helm. 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.