Felipe VI to meet with Argentina’s new president Javier Milei, This Saturday in Buenos Aires, on the eve of the inauguration of the far-right leader who will take over from Peronist Alberto Fernández.
Meeting with Milei It will take place at the Palacio San Martín in the early afternoon. He will head to the headquarters of the Argentinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then to the presidential residence in Los Olivos to meet with Fernández, Casa del Rey sources reported.
He will attend the transfer of power ceremony at the Congress on Sunday, Milei will be sworn in here, followed by an inauguration ceremony at Casa Rosada, where he will deliver his first speech as president.
Felipe VI will also hold a meeting with representatives of the Spanish colony in Argentina on Saturday at the headquarters of the Spanish Embassy.
The King, accompanied by Juan Fernández Trigo, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Latin America, the Caribbean and the World, will fly to the South American country tomorrow – arriving in Buenos Aires on Saturday morning.
Felipe VI will coincide with other leaders of the region, including Chilean President Gabriel Boric, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou or Paraguayan President Santiago Peña.
Vox’s president will also attend. Santiago Abascal, Who congratulated Milei on his “great election victory”, saying that he “opened a path of future and hope for Argentines”.
The leader of La Libertad Avanza defeated Peronist candidate Sergio Massa, who was supported by President Pedro Sánchez, in the second round of the presidential elections held on November 19.
Sánchez did not congratulate the far-right leader on his victory. Days before the election, he had stated that Massa represented “noise” in the face of the democratic coexistence and harmony he embodied.
After his victory in the elections The Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a statement and wished “success” Argentina In the new phase, it will work in favor of “the interests of both countries”. Felipe VI is representing Spain at the inauguration of an Argentinian leader for the first time since he ascended to the throne in June 2014.
In 2015, in Mauricio Macri’s office, his father Juan Carlos I did this, and four years later in Fernández’s office, then-Senate president Pilar Llop also did so; This was a position that coincided with the head of state’s tour. Consultations were held on the formation of the government.