Diplomatic crisis between Spain and Argentina

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting The newspaper “De Site”, the president of Argentina, who traveled to Spain for a meeting of far-right parties, made statements there that led to a diplomatic crisis between the countries.

Spain called its ambassador from Argentina in Madrid in protest against the statements of “Javier Miley”, the president of this country. At a rally in Madrid on Sunday for the far-right party Vox, Miley called Beguna Gomez, the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, corrupt. The Madrid government announced on Sunday that Miley had “insulted” Spain as well as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

Miley did not mention Gomez by name, but His point was clear. The Spanish government immediately reacted to these statements and called “Maria Jesus Alonso Jimenez”, its ambassador in Buenos Aires, to Madrid for consultation and “for an indefinite period”.

“José Manuel Albarez”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, when announcing this action, spoke of a frontal attack on democracy, on the institutions of his country and Spain. “It is unacceptable for a president to insult Spain and the Spanish prime minister on a visit to Spain,” Albarez said. He demanded a “public apology” from Miley.

Recently A far-right group filed a lawsuit against Sánchez’s wife for alleged ties to companies that receive state aid. Sánchez then threatened to resign and sued the conservative and far-right campaign against his left-wing government.

Miley was one of the speakers on Sunday at the meeting of right-wing populist and far-right parties in Madrid, who wanted to promote themselves before the European elections in June The Argentine president, who describes himself as an “anarcho-capitalist”, called on the people to unite against “socialism.” During the implementation of this Argentine official, the people chanted “freedom, freedom”. /p>

According to Vox, there were about eleven thousand participants in this event, including many high-ranking right-wing, populist and national-conservative politicians from abroad. Among them were Marine Le Pen from the National Party of France, Andre Ventura from Portugal and Jose Antonio Caste from Chile and other officials of far-right parties. , the Prime Minister of Hungary, who called on “patriots” to “occupy Brussels” and was sent from Italy by Prime Minister Georgia Meloni.

Sanchez on the online service X The reaction to the meeting wrote that the international far right is gathering in Madrid because Spain supports everything they hate, including feminism, social justice and the dignity of work. Hundreds of people demonstrated in central Madrid against the meeting, many of them holding placards that read “No to fascism”. Spain broke diplomatic etiquette by refusing to meet with King Felipe of Spain and Sanchez. Instead, he promoted his book at a rally with Santiago Abascal, head of the radical Vox party.

This isn’t the first diplomatic crisis Miley has sparked. Also in January, the Colombian government summoned its ambassador to Buenos Aires, Gustavo Petro, for consultation because Miley called Petro a “murderous communist.” The Chinese government also temporarily summoned its ambassador to Buenos Aires in December.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni addressed the meeting of the Spanish party Vox via video on Sunday. joined in Madrid and stressed that the right is essential to building a “better Europe”. Meloni emphasized: Europe is “a tired, submissive and even a little spoiled continent that believes it can exchange identity with ideology, freedom with comfort, and today it is inevitably paying the price for its decisions.

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