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Milei skips Ibero-American Summit opening in Madrid, meets Abascal

Javier Milei did not attend the opening of the Ibero-American Summit in Madrid or Felipe VI's dinner at the Royal Palace.

Argentine President Javier Milei's visit to Madrid was defined by a deliberate absence from the central events of the Ibero-American Summit and by a parallel agenda with leading figures of the Spanish right. --- The context --- The Ibero-American Summit brings heads of State and Government together in Madrid. In that setting, the president's official agenda, released on Tuesday, already anticipated that he would not attend the Teatro Real gala or the private reception with the monarchs. --- The facts --- Milei did not attend the summit's opening and did not take part in the dinner that King Felipe VI hosted at the Royal Palace. His participation is limited to this Thursday's plenary session at 5, Argentine time, at the Gallery of the Royal Collections. On Wednesday night, at 18.30 Argentine time, he met Santiago Abascal, the Vox leader. Today, Thursday, at 13.30, once the summit has ended, he is scheduled to meet Isabel Díaz Ayuso of the PP, whom he already visited on his last trip. Once the session ends, the official aircraft ARG-01 is scheduled to depart Madrid at 17 bound for Argentina, with a technical stop in the Canary Islands. Arrival is scheduled for Friday, November 6, at 7.30. --- The positions --- The sequence was read as another gesture of distancing toward Pedro Sánchez's administration. Instead of the shared events with the Crown and the other leaders, Milei prioritised two bilateral meetings with figures from Vox and the PP. --- What remains unknown --- The source does not detail what was discussed with Abascal or the topics planned for the meeting with Ayuso. It also reports no scheduled contacts with the Spanish Government during this visit. --- Unanswered questions --- What was discussed at Wednesday night's meeting with Santiago Abascal? Which topics will today's meeting with Isabel Díaz Ayuso cover? Will there be any contact with Pedro Sánchez's administration before the return? --- EPM analysis --- The absence was not improvised, because the official agenda had anticipated it since Tuesday. The contrast is clear between a minimal presence at the multilateral forum and an intense bilateral agenda with the Spanish opposition. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, Milei's decision sets out his Madrid priorities with a clarity that is hard to dispute: he fulfils the plenary session but avoids the opening, the dinner with Felipe VI and the summit's social events. That choice carries an evident institutional cost, because a summit also serves to sustain relations between States beyond affinities. At the same time, his meetings with Abascal and Ayuso show with whom he wants to build ties in Spain. The gesture is consistent, but it shrinks his presence in the shared Ibero-American space.
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