The Spanish authorities confronts Madrid over Milei’s award

Madrid. The Minister of Overseas Affairs of the Spanish authorities, the socialist José Manuel Albares, described as an act of “profound disloyalty” the choice of the president of the Group of Madrid, the right-wing Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to award the worldwide medal to the president of Argentina , Javier Milei, who maintains a troublesome wrestle with the Spanish Government, with insults and disqualifications. The governments of each nations have had a diplomatic disaster open since final Might, when the Spanish president, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, determined to withdraw his ambassador in Buenos Aires after Milei’s phrases throughout an occasion of the European excessive proper in Madrid, within the who referred to as his spouse, Begoña Gómez, “corrupt,” following judicial proceedings opened in opposition to her for alleged crimes of corruption and affect peddling.

A couple of hours earlier than the far-right Milei lands in Spain, for the second time since he took workplace, the unrest within the Iberian authorities is rising and never solely in opposition to the methods and phrases of the Argentine president, but in addition in opposition to his allies. in Spain, who’re publicly the intense proper of Vox and now the president of Madrid, of the Well-liked Occasion (PP), additionally joins. Díaz Ayuso won’t solely maintain a gathering with Milei, when he didn’t even attempt to maintain a gathering with the Spanish authorities regardless of being visiting the nation, however he can even give him a not too long ago created worldwide medal which, amongst others, he has obtained. the president of Ukraine, Volodymir Zelensky, and the Venezuelan opponent Juan Guaidó.

Regardless of the criticism from Sánchez’s Government, the Madrid president mentioned about her assembly with Milei: “For us it’s an honor to obtain the reliable president elected, he did, by a big majority on the polls by the folks of Argentina” and added that The Argentine president “makes institutional visits to completely different governments and doesn’t accomplish that with the one which has prompted a diplomatic disaster and that always insults, not solely Milei, however all governments that aren’t of his signal, we aren’t guilty” .

Milei additionally involves Spain to gather an award from the ultraliberal Juan de Mariana basis and, based on a model printed by the newspaper El País, the Argentine president’s cupboard tried to have her obtained by King Felipe VI, however the request was rejected beneath the argument that “overseas coverage is the duty” of the federal government.