With the public expenses incurred by his trips abroad in the eye of the storm, he landed in Spain this Friday, to participate in a far-right forum and meet with the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal. According to the communication from the Casa Rosada, the visit of the Argentine president does not include official activity with Spanish authorities, nor with representatives of the country’s main companies. The opposition presented a request for reports in Congress to find out how the trip is financed.
Milei left Buenos Aires on Thursday night and arrived in the capital of Spain after noon. From the airport, he was transferred directly to the Hyatt Regency Hesperia hotel, on Paseo de la Castellana. He was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pablo Quirno.
Milei’s activities agenda will take place this Saturday. In the morning, he will meet again with Abascal, with whom he has already shown affinity on various occasions, on both sides of the Atlantic. Afterwards he will meet with Jesús Huerta de Soto, an ultra-liberal economist who is part of the pantheon of deities idolized by the Argentine.
A speech by Milei at the closing of the event is scheduled for around eight in the evening in Spain. , a forum that will bring together economists, businessmen, politicians and far-right activists at the Vistalegre Palace. The Argentine president was already at last year’s edition, when he put on stage his usual performance: “In the face of the shitty socialists, I will always be on their side,” he harangued that time to his audience, who were booing the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez. , he enthused.
Entrepreneurship, the cultural battle, investment, communication and artificial intelligence are the topics on which “the forum that will give a turn to the great challenges of Spain” will focus, according to what its portal promotes. Tickets for attendees cost between 49 and 2,500 euros. The organization is run by two firms dedicated to consulting: Racks Labs, a “technology consultancy for companies,” and Abast, which offers “services for companies and people with interests in Andorra,” considered a tax haven.
Before closing the evening, Milei will be honored with “the commemorative award in honor of Ludwig von Mises.”
With his visit to Spain, the president of Argentina will complete almost a full week of tour around the world. Last Friday he traveled to Miami, where he met with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and other leaders. Then he went to New York and opened the Argentine Week 2026, a meeting organized to seduce investors and demand protectionist policies for the national industry. On Tuesday he left for Chile and there, the next day, he witnessed the inauguration of José Antonio Kast as president. Before traveling to Spain, he stayed just 24 hours in Buenos Aires.
The presidential tour of the United States sparked a scandal in Argentina, the echoes of which can still be heard. As part of the large official delegation, he traveled accompanied by his partner, who is not a civil servant. Adorni argued that he paid personal expenses, but his explanations raised other questions about an apparent standard of living that did not correspond to his income. The same criticism pointed to a trip to Uruguay made by the Chief of Staff and his family last February, by renting a private plane.
Legislators and opposition leaders presented requests for reports and interpellation in Congress, as well as complaints before the courts. Adorni is one of the main spokespersons of the Government’s speech in defense of the adjustment of public spending and against “the political caste” that lives off the State.
Milei’s new trip to Spain, with an official agenda that does not include activities related to his Government, was also highlighted by opposition leaders. “Milei is traveling to a private event, is he doing it with public resources?” asked Peronist deputy Agustín Rossi, one of the legislators who, through a formal request, requested that the Executive report on the financing of the transfer, accommodation and other expenses in Madrid, as well as the members of the delegation and, among other things, “if the president’s participation in Madrid Economic Forum is paid.”
