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Faced with the escalation of the diplomatic crisis with the administration of Javier Mileithe former president of the government of Spain Felipe Gonzalez considered that the attitude of the leader of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) was “rude and insulting”, but he disagreed with the president’s decision Pedro Sanchez to withdraw the Spanish ambassador in Argentina. “I wouldn’t have done it,” she said and compared the reaction to other international conflicts.
“We can afford a conflict with Argentina, how much does it cost the Spanish? We have to calculate whether we can afford it or not. […] ¿Why haven’t we broken with Russia and invaded Ukraine?? There are many more deaths due to Putin’s criminality in Ukraine than the horror we are experiencing in Gaza after a terrible terrorist attack carried out by Hamas,” he said in an interview with the signal. Antenna 3.
In that sense, the historic leader of the Socialist Party questioned Sánchez’s determination after the series of attacks carried out by the head of the Argentine Executive regarding the Spanish first lady, Begoña Gómez, and the alleged case of corruption with which she is related. However, he focused on the complications that the breaking of the link between both countries could have for citizens on both sides of the Atlantic.
“We have tens of thousands of Spaniards in Argentina and we have hundreds of thousands of Argentines here,” he emphasized in reference to the withdrawal of María Jesús Alonso from the Embassy in Buenos Aires. From González’s point of view, with this scenario, “the handle” of the representation of the European nation remained “in the hands of Milei.”
“That [Milei] say that we are the plague of society ‘socialism, social policies…. Maybe he is not in favor of public and universal education and healthcare, I am. Therefore, I feel offended by a disqualification of that nature, but I believe that our diplomacy has to serve our fellow citizens and companies wherever they are,” González reflected.
In the same vein, he admitted that he would have preferred the response that Pope Francis gave him: “As if he had not referred to him, and called him I don’t know what the devil,” he recalled about the Argentine president’s expressions about the supreme pontiff, whom he called “representative of the evil one on Earth.”
The differences between both leaders were exposed two weeks ago when the Government issued a harsh statement against Sanchez after the controversial statements of his Minister of Transport, Oscar Puentewho accused Milei of “ingesting substances”. The official’s outburst was during an event of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE).
Although the next day the Spanish government responded with a text with which it tried to calm the waters and in which it assured that the writing disseminated by the Casa Rosada “does not correspond to the relations of two brother countries and peoples”, the tension was It extended over time and was amplified with the arrival of Milei to European territory for the presentation in Madrid of his book “The Way of the Libertarian.”
This Tuesday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, José Manuel Albares, advertisement Alonso’s final retirement after the Argentine government refused to apologize to Sánchez after Milei called Gómez “corrupt.”
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