The Government elected its new ambassador in Spain

The Government elected its new ambassador in Spain

Finally the Government elected a new ambassador to Spain, after the position became vacant in late November. It is about Alejandro Alonso Sainzwho will arrive to replace Roberto Boschand the designation is expected to be made official in the next few hours.

The Government chose its next ambassador to Spain

The relationship between the top Spanish leader and the Argentine libertarian leader is very tense. The peak of this year’s escalation came in May, when Milei tried to “corrupts” Begoña Gómez, wife of the Iberian president.

This caused a break in diplomatic relations between both governments and caused the Spanish administration to call its ambassador in Buenos Aires for consultation. Maria Jesus Alonsoand then finally withdraw his representative. In the middle of the conflict, Bosch, former Argentine ambassador, remained, who after the accumulated tensions, and a bad relationship with the Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares, decided his departure.

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Alonso Sainz will put a damper on the tense relationship between Milei and Sánchez.

This hostile situation is what Alonso Sainz comes to resolve, who will occupy the place that has been vacant since the beginning of this month. With eight consecutive years as Argentine consul in Barcelona, Alonso Sainz had around 150,000 Argentines living in his jurisdiction under his areawhich covers Catalonia, but also Valencia, Aragon, Andorra, Castellón, Huesca, Zaragoza and Alicante.

The Spanish representative in Argentine territory

For its part, after the call for consultation of its previous ambassador, the Spanish government appointed just over a month to Albares as its representative on Argentine soil. After the strong diplomatic crisis unleashed in May as a result of President Milei’s statements during a visit to Madrid.

Arístegui Laborde replaced María Jesús Alonso Jiménez in the diplomatic headquarters of the South American country, who was summoned for consultations and then permanently removed from office in May. after Milei refused to apologizeas Madrid demanded, after accusing the wife of the president of the Spanish Government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, of being “corrupt.”

Milei made the criticism during a rally in Madrid of the Spanish party of ultra-right Voxafter learning that the Spanish justice system was investigating Begoña Gómez for influence peddling and corruption. back in ArgentinaMilei refused to apologize, stating that “the attacked“It was him, remembering that Spanish government officials called him”xenophobic“, “racist” and “misogynist.” In any case, Buenos Aires had ruled out taking reciprocal measures when Spain announced the definitive withdrawal of its ambassador.

Source: Ambito

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