Milei cancels his meeting with Scholz after criticism from the German Government of his insults to Pedro Sánchez

Four days before his visit to Berlin, the agenda of the meeting between the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, and the German chancellor, Olaf Scholzhas changed completely. They will not hold a bilateral meeting nor will there be a joint press conference as planned for this Sunday after a last minute change in the program. Your meeting will be limited to one “short work visit” between both delegations, as confirmed by the Government of Germany.

Initially, a reception with military honors by Scholz to Milei at the headquarters of the head of the German Government, better known as the Chancellery, a face-to-face meeting and a subsequent press conference. But the entire program has been canceled at the initiative of ArgentinaAfter the spokesman for the German Executive described this Monday as “lack of taste” Milei’s comments about President Pedro Sánchez and his wife, Begoña Gómez.

The cancellation of part of the program has not come from the German Government, as confirmed by the spokesperson for the German Executive, Christiane Hoffmannsince it seems “correct and appropriate” for there to be joint press conferences with all foreign leaders when this is possible.

According to this statement, the suspension of this bilateral meeting has been decided by the Milei Government. However, Germany has not explained the reasons for this decision, simply saying that “there are good reasons why we cannot make public every detail of the prior planning and preparations.”

The change in the agenda comes two days after the main spokesman of the German Government, Steffen Hebestreitdescribed as “lack of taste” and “unpleasant” Milei’s comments about Pedro Sánchez, whom he described as “kind of people screwed to power”and his wife, whom he referred to as “corrupt.”

“The Spanish president found the right words and I believe that the words of the Argentine president are valued by themselves,” said Hebestreit when asked about the comments that triggered a diplomatic crisis between both countries and the withdrawal of their ambassador in Buenos Aires.

Milei is scheduled to travel this Saturday to Germany, where he will be delivered in Hamburg to Hayek medal which the eponymous society granted him due to his achievements as a “reformer.”

dFrom the Argentine Government, the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni He has limited himself to saying about this suspension of the agenda that from the beginning the meeting between Milei and Scholz “it was not bilateral in nature”, extreme that Germany denies.