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Javier Milei durante su visita a Madrid en un desayuno informativo
Javier Milei, presidente argentino, durante su visita a Madrid, donde participó en un desayuno informativo y buscó la confrontación directa con Pedro Sánchez. · El Mundo

Milei seeks direct confrontation with Sánchez in Madrid and overshadows Feijóo and Abascal

Javier Milei presented himself in Madrid as Pedro Sánchez's direct antagonist, with insults and a call condemned by the Foreign Ministry, on a visit aimed at…

--- The context --- Javier Milei arrived in Madrid amid misgivings from the PP and Vox, and his first public event confirmed that caution. The Argentine president presented himself as the direct antagonist of Pedro Sánchez and overshadowed Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal. Milei mentioned his Spanish friends only once, Abascal and Madrid regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso, saying they have healthy and positive ideas to lift Spain out of decadence. --- The facts --- At the informative breakfast organised by Nueva Economía Fórum, Milei made clear that his trip was early campaigning, but not for Spain's general election on November 29. It was for Argentina's presidential election in October next year, where his re-election is at stake. If we are re-elected, he promised, Argentina will live a great rebirth. He also set out ideas impossible to accept for two parties hoping to govern Spain in just over two months: every tax is theft, since nobody pays them voluntarily; the chainsaw must be applied to public spending, because the State does not create wealth, it only destroys it. He called Sánchez an unpresentable dictator, corrupt and authoritarian Pedrito, and called to kick the socialists out of power. Asked why he has not met the Spanish prime minister on any visit as head of state, and this is the seventh, he replied he will not go to see a thieving criminal like Pedro Sánchez. --- The positions --- The Government reacted through the Foreign Ministry, which expressed its strongest condemnation of the insults and slanders directed by Milei at the president of the Government, at Spain and at Spaniards, and condemned outright the call to use violence made that morning. The ministry said it is unworthy for whoever holds the highest office of a sister nation to visit the country to foster polarisation and violence. It defended that Spain is sovereign, accepts no external interference and no attacks on its democratically elected institutions. Milei identifies Sánchez with Kirchnerism and considers confronting him profitable. Sánchez received him with a video proclaiming I am a leftie, and the PSOE hung a banner at its headquarters: Hello Milei, we lefties welcome you to Spain, the country growing most in Europe. --- What remains unknown --- Milei did not want to reveal whether he will attend the Ibero-American Summit, planned in Madrid on November 4 and 5. Nor was he received by the King on this occasion, despite assuring an excellent relationship with Felipe VI. His cabinet informally asked to meet Felipe VI, as on other occasions. Zarzuela replied that such a meeting must necessarily be accompanied by another with the president of the Government, which has not taken place. --- Unanswered questions --- What consequences will this confrontation have for relations between Spain and Argentina? Will Milei attend the Ibero-American Summit in Madrid on November 4 and 5? Will the meeting with the president of the Government that Zarzuela requires before an encounter with the King take place? How will Feijóo and Abascal accommodate Milei's prominence on their own ground? --- EPM analysis --- In his head-to-head with Sánchez, Milei presented himself as the leader capable of defeating Sanchismo: wherever there is a liberty-killer, I will go to confront him. He warned that, if not reversed in time, we will see the disappearance of the West as we know it, but added that America will come to rescue Europe if necessary. None of the leading figures of the right attended the event. Milei planned to meet Ayuso that afternoon at Canal de Isabel II, but not to see Abascal, on a pre-election tour of Galicia and Asturias. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, a visiting head of state may defend his ideas with complete firmness and criticise the host government with legitimate harshness, but personal insults against its president and a call to kick the socialists out of power cross a line that diplomacy between sister nations should never normalise at all. The Foreign Ministry's condemnation recalls that Spain does not accept external interference against democratically elected institutions. When confrontation occupies the whole trip, the local leaders called to compete in Spain are eclipsed, democratic coexistence is strained unnecessarily and the campaign truly advanced in the end is Argentina's, not Spain's own contest.
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