The Diplomat
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, assured yesterday that the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, would be received in accordance with “the regulatory and legal procedures established” by international relations in the event of a second trip to Spain.
In statements to the press after inaugurating a European meeting to combat the dissemination of terrorist propaganda through the Internet, the minister assured that security issues during visits by foreign heads of state are framed in “international relations and the requests of security” and that Spain “always” works “in accordance with established regulatory and legal procedures.”
Grande-Marlaska was thus responding to a question about whether it would be up to the Spanish Government or the Argentine authorities to assume Milei’s security if he finally travels to Spain on June 21 to collect the prize from the Juan de Mariana Institute.
In any case, the minister insisted that Javier Milei should apologize for the words he spoke last weekend against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and his wife Begoña Gómez, whom he called “corrupt”, at an event of Vox in Madrid.
“I believe that the seriousness of President Milei’s words are clear, carried out in our capital, in Madrid, and where the conditions that must necessarily be given for security to a head of state of a friendly country of a brother country were given. “, declared Grande-Marlaska, who warned that the Argentine president’s “manifestations” were related to “State institutions” and are, therefore, of “maximum severity.”
