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Vox leader Santiago Abascal has flatly denied on Thursday that the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, had insisted during his speech at the Third Regional Meeting of the Madrid Forum held in Buenos Aires on the “need for him to reunite the right in Spain” and join the PP. According to what he said in an interview on Radio Libertad, by Luis del Pino, Milei’s message has been “manipulated” by some media outlets, mainly by El Mundo. “The truth is that Milei said absolutely nothing of that,” he replied.

According to this media, Milei pointed out during his speech at the forum that all the forces of the right “should unite to confront the enemy of the criminal left.” “We cannot afford the luxury of dispersion and internal fights,” he added at another point. But according to Abascal that does not mean that the Argentine leader has asked him to join the PP, but that he was referring to his own party, La Libertad Adelante, and to “some traitors and ambitious people” that he is finding within his party to whom he told “that personal ambitions have to be put aside, that Argentina is above everything and that for Argentina everything had to be lost, from property to life,” and that therefore “they could not afford the luxury of dispersion.”

“It was a message to his people, internally,” Abascal said, later regretting that “here it was translated without any scruples as Milei reading Abascal the riot act in Buenos Aires and telling him that he has to join the PP.” “We cannot unite with acronyms, we can unite with values ​​and those values ​​are not shared (with the PP) right now,” he concluded.

Writes Carmen Moraga