Giorgia Meloni and Javier Milei have taken another photo together this Friday in Rome between big hugs and smiles. And there are four more than six months. It is their sixth encounter in total and are increasingly delighted to meet. She is the main ally of the Argentine president in Europe, and he is almost the only political accomplice of the Italian Prime Minister in Latin America. Both, finally, boast of their and of constituting with him a kind of. And they also share tune with Elon Musk, who wielded the chainsaw with Milei in an act of the Maga Movement [Make America Great Again, el lema de Trump] In February. While in Spain the Latin American populist leader avoids the main authorities, always looks for Meloni, who has no problems to exhibit who he considers “a friend, a brave man.”
The Argentine president has begun in the Italian capital that includes a visit to Pope Leo XIV, tomorrow Saturday. It is the first time they will see, because Milei did not attend the Pontificate Mass of Robert Prevost last month. The encounter, in addition, has interest because Pope Peruvian-American knows well Latin American reality and, in principle, both are in ideological antipodes. However, nothing of the meeting will be known, which is private, except for the laconic usual statement of the Holy See.
Flight to Spain
Milei will then fly to Spain on Sunday, to an event sponsored by a cryptocurrency platform, and then to France and Israel. But then he will return to Spain again on June 13 to participate in another act. It will be the third visit from his controversy first time, in May 2024, when. The second, a month later, was for Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
In Rome, Milei has been received at six in the afternoon by the Italian Prime Minister in Palazzo Chigi, headquarters of the presidency of the Government. For reasons that are unknown, the meeting has advanced an hour and a half regarding the schedule planned at the last moment, and then a private dinner is scheduled. Before, Milei has attended the signing of an agreement between the Argentine and PF oil company, public property, and the Italian Energy Colossus ENI for the sale of gas to Italy.
Italy and Argentina have always had strong historical ties. The Italian community in the Latin American country is the largest outside Italy and there are 20 million Argentines of Italian origin. But Milei and Meloni’s relationship goes much further. The last time the two leaders were seen was nothing, on April 26, when Milei went to Rome to the funeral of Pope Francis. Among all the world’s leaders gathered in the Italian capital, Meloni chose Milei to go eating together in a Via Veneto hotel and becoming a self.
It was still recent then his previous meeting, in December, when Milei returned to Meloni his visit of the month before Buenos Aires and the ultra -rightist leader. Then she introduced him on stage as a rock star, welcomed someone who “is carrying out a cultural revolution and as we believe that subsidy policy leads to the abyss, and as we believe that work is the only antidote against poverty.” Great applause.
In his speech, Milei called European populists to strengthen “ties before the abuses of socialism with an international right -wing incipient.” “We have to be like a Roman legion that is always imposed on larger armies, precisely because no one breaks the formation.”
It was an idea that the two had crushed a month earlier, where the Italian leader said that “there is a common political point of view between two leaders who struggle to defend the identity of the West, the pillars of their civilization: freedom, the equality of people, democracy, sovereignty. There is much more than a common cooperation between nations: the force of ideas and the courage necessary to defend them.” Milei gave him a doll himself with the chainsaw.
