The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, stated this Monday that he has summoned the Argentine ambassador in Spain to demand “public apologies” from the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, after his attacks on the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and his wife, Begoña Gómez.
In an interview with SER, collected by Servimedia, José Manuel Albares announced that this morning the new ambassador of Argentina in Spain, Roberto Sebastián Bosch, is summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Albares will convey to the ambassador, who delivered the credentials to Felipe VI last Thursday, “the seriousness of the situation and I will once again demand a public apology from Javier Milei.”
It is worth remembering that this Sunday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs announced in a statement from La Moncloa that he had called the Spanish ambassador in Argentina, María Jesús Alonso, for consultations “sine die”, after the “attack” by the president of that country, Javier Milei, “to our democracy, to our institutions and to Spain.”
He did so in an institutional statement after Milei’s words during a Vox event held in Madrid in which he called the wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, “corrupt”, whom he disfigured because after “getting dirty” he took ” five days to think about it,” and referred to socialism as a “carcinogenic” ideology that leads to death.
The head of Spanish diplomacy also reacted to the first response of the Argentine Executive, whose spokesman Manuel Adorni rejected that Milei was going to apologize since, he pointed out that “they treated him as a hater, as a denier, as ‘ingesting substances’, as an authoritarian, as a anti-democratic and being “very bad” people, and considered that the Government of Spain “hopefully at some point they will reflect and apologize sincerely.”
“We are not going to stop requesting these apologies, because there are things that may be debatable, the political lines, the political ideas, but there are things that are indisputable, such as the institutions, the governments, the countries,” Albares stressed. .
Likewise, he pointed out that “although Javier Milei had not requested any official meeting with any Spanish institution, he has been received in good faith, the necessary public means have been made available to him, the Torrejón Base, the security that It is given to the heads of state.”
“He has used his presence in nothing more and nothing less than in the capital of Spain to launch a frontal attack against a fundamental institution such as the presidency of the government,” he stressed.
On the other hand, he apologized to Vox and Santiago Abascal who “applauded this attack on our institutions and the Popular Party that once again has deeply disappointed me.”
“It is common sense that a president of another country does not go to the capital of a country to insult its institutions,” he added.
