Philip VI will meet with the new president of Argentina, Javier Mileithis Saturday in Buenos Aires on the eve of inauguration of the far-right leader, who will take over from the Peronist Alberto Fernandez.
The meeting with Milei will take place early in the afternoon at the San Martin Palaceheadquarters of the Argentine Foreign Ministry, and will later travel to the presidential residence of Los Olivos to hold a meeting with Fernández, sources from the King’s House have reported.
On Sunday will attend the transfer of power ceremony in Congress, where Milei will take the oath, which will be followed by the inauguration ceremony at the Casa Rosada, where he will give his first speech as president.
Felipe VI will also hold a meeting on Saturday with a representation of the Spanish colony based in Argentina at the headquarters of the Spanish Embassy. The king will arrive in Buenos Aires on Saturday morning accompanied by the Secretary of State for Latin America and the Caribbean and Spanish in the World, Juan Fernández Trigo.
Felipe VI will coincide with other leaders of the region, among them, the president of Chile, Gabriel Boricthat of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pouor that of Paraguay, Santiago Pena.
It is the first time Felipe VI represents Spain at an inauguration of an Argentine leader since he acceded to the throne in June 2014.
In 2015, in Mauricio Macrihis father did it, Juan Carlos Iand four years later, in that of Fernández, the then president of the Senate, Pilar Llopsince it coincided with the round of consultations of the head of state for the formation of the government.
The president of Vox will also attend, Santiago Abascalwho congratulated Milei on his “great electoral victory” by saying that it “opens a path of future and hope for Argentines.”
The leader of Freedom Advances won on November 19 in the second round of the presidential elections to Sergio Massathe Peronist candidate for whom the President of the Government had shown his support, Pedro Sanchez.
Sánchez did not congratulate the far-right leader on his victory, whom he stated days before the elections that he represented the “stridency” in the face of democratic coexistence and harmony that Massa embodied.
