Milei will inaugurate the III Regional Meeting of the Madrid Rio de la Plata Forum 2024 which will take place on September 5 and 6 in the City of Buenos Aires. The head of State will be accompanied by the presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorniwho will also speak before an audience yet to be confirmed.
The event is promoted by the Disenso Foundation, the think tank of the far-right party Spain, Therefore, among those present will be the president and leader of VOX, Santiago Abascal, who maintains a close bond with the Argentine president. Both met face to face in May during the convention “Europe Live 24” which took place in the Iberian Peninsula.
The Madrid Forum on Javier Milei: “He is fighting a fundamental battle”
In the announcement of the event, the Madrid Forum states that during the two days “the patriotic forces of Latin America and Europe that oppose socialism and defend freedom” will meet. For the first time, it will be held in Argentina, where, according to them, Milei is “fighting a fundamental battle that will define the future of Latin America.”
“In this new meeting, Madrid Forum will bring together its allies from all over Latin America and Europe to outline a common agenda of freedom that confronts the criminal influence of Sao Paulo Forumhe Puebla Group and the Progressive International”, the invitation “letter” continues.
The first regional meeting was held in 2022 in the city of Bogotá, Colombia. Foro Madrid assures that “it served to alert the arrival and the harmful agenda of the Historic Pact and Gustavo Petro in Colombia.” The second summit, held in Lime, Peru, “gave Peruvians a platform to denounce those forces that sought to restore the coup leader to power “Pedro Castillo”.
Madrid Forum to bring together far-right leaders in Buenos Aires
Faithful to its origins as a partisan space characterized by the rejection of PSOE, The objective of the third meeting will be “to internationally embrace all forces that oppose socialism”although it will pay special attention to the political and electoral situation in Venezuela. According to them, will search “to convey that it is possible to defeat them without abandoning our convictions (as demonstrated by the success of Javier Milei) and to consolidate and expand the alliance for freedom.”
He Madrid Forum defines itself on its website as “a international alliance which includes all those people who, regardless of their ideology, share the defense of the Freedom, the Democracy and the Rule of Law”.
In addition to Milei, Adorni and Abascal, The former presidential candidate of Chile will arrive in the country, José Antonio Kast, and Andrew Olivastro, Development Director of the Heritage Foundation from the United States, a conservative organization of the Republican Party, among other participants.
The last time the Argentine president and the leader of the Spanish party saw each other was last May, when he traveled to Spain to present his book “El Camino del Libertario” and participated in the meeting “Europa Viva 24”, also organized by VOX, with the Prime Minister of Italy Georgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán and former French presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen.
“What are you doing, dear Santiago?” Milei says to Abascal as soon as they embraced in a euphoric hug. Later, The President assures him that with his criticism of Pedro Sánchez, “I tried to be fair, I hope it worked out well for me.” “It turned out very well for you and I am very grateful for it. Because many people like to drive wedges between us,” replies the Vox representative, to which the Argentine libertarian responds: “Let them try, they will continue to fail.”
Source: Ambito
