Milei calls Pedro Sánchez a “coward” earlier than his arrival in Madrid

Madrid. Simply sooner or later after touchdown in Madrid for the second time since his election as President of Argentina, Javier Milei referred to as the Spanish president, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, a “coward” and “attacking freedom of expression” with a “mannequin ” just like “Nicolas Maduro.” The far-right chief will solely be in Spain for just a few hours, the place he solely plans to satisfy with the president of the Group of Madrid, the additionally right-wing Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and to obtain an award from the ultraliberal Juan de Mariana Basis.

Milei plans to depart for Spain this Thursday afternoon, so her public agenda will start on Friday, with the assembly with the president of Madrid and the award ceremony, which is able to happen throughout a dinner. Earlier than her journey, it was her second to Spain since she assumed energy, after her participation on Might 17 within the summit of European far-right events organized by Vox, which was referred to as Viva24.

After the Spanish authorities, by way of its spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, requested Milei for “respect” for the “Spanish folks and their establishments,” the president of Argentina once more attacked Sánchez, calling him a “coward,” preserve that “I don’t use the repressive equipment of the State to persecute. The identical factor occurred when the coward (in reference to Sánchez) despatched all of his ministers to insult me,” he warned throughout an interview with the Argentine tv channel Todo Noticias. And from there he detailed a few of these “insults” that representatives of the Spanish authorities gave him earlier than his first journey to Spain: “it began with the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, who implied that he consumed substances. After which, since I did not reply, he very cowardly despatched the ladies to assault me. After which name me a misogynist. Since I did not reply later, he already joined in,” Milei mentioned. Milei later said that “(Sánchez) is advancing freedom of expression, that’s, it’s clear that it’s Maduro’s mannequin that he’s making use of. What would occur if I did that right here? What would the entire band say?”

The president of Argentina was referring to the statements of the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, who asserted that Milei is “an instance of a denialist mannequin that assaults democracy itself”; and to these of the second vp and Minister of Work, Yolanda Díaz, who expressed in December that Milei “returned with cuts and authoritarianism.”

Along with his go to to Spain, Milei additionally plans to journey to Germany and the Czech Republic, the place he was initially going to carry two presidential summits. Nevertheless, and given the controversy with Spain, the German authorities, chaired by the socialist Olaf Scholz, introduced that that they had lastly determined to make modifications to the protocol agenda and that the assembly between leaders won’t happen.

The German authorities had deliberate to obtain Milei as another head of state, that’s, with army honours and varied institutional occasions on the highest ranges of the State, however the insults to Sánchez and Scholz’s sympathy with the Spaniard – each from the Socialist Worldwide – could possibly be behind the change of agenda.

German authorities spokesperson Christiane Hoffmann defined that “modifications have been made within the quick time period” and that Milei’s go to “will solely be a brief working go to and a gathering with delegations” from each international locations. Concerning the explanations for the change, Hoffmann restricted himself to mentioning that “there are good the reason why we can’t make public each element of the planning and conversations.” The spokesperson for the Argentine authorities, Manuel Adorni, assured that no bilateral summit was deliberate and that Milei’s journey to Germany is especially to obtain a medal in Hamburg from an affiliation of liberal economists.