The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, has personally expressed his intention to travel to Spain at the end of June to receive an award from “Spanish liberals”, and hopes that the “totalitarianism” and “inferiority complex” of the Spanish Government will not prevent it.

“We will see how far totalitarianism reaches in blood. Notice, I will travel to receive the Juan de Mariana award. We will see if his great inferiority complex allows the Spanish liberals to award me in person,” the Argentine president stated on his official profile on the social network X.

What consequences would it have to name Milei ‘Persona Non Grata’? Could I enter Spain if the decision is confirmed? Yes. But not like last time.

What does it mean to be persona non grata? International law makes it very clear. “When someone is declared persona non grata, what the State is communicating to them is that it does not want them to be in its territory”explained Esther López Barredo, doctor in Public International Law and European Union Law.

How would it affect Milei? When she declares herself persona non grata she loses the trust of that status and also the privileges that accompany the position. “He could not be received in our territory as president with immunity”Pedro Rodríguez has indicated in Más Vale Tarde.

Couldn’t you travel to Spain? In principle yes, but not as president. “like a normal touristhe is not going to have the reception that coming as president of a foreign government entails,” López Barredo assured.

For example, when Peru declared Evo Morales persona non grata last year, That declaration was accompanied by an order to the Ministry of Immigration so that he could not enter the country. In itself, the declaration of persona non grata does not imply a prohibition of entry into that territory.