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Judi Lynn

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Fri May 24, 2024, 04:50 AM May 2024

Spain recalls Argentina ambassador in Milei insult row


3 days ago
Ruth Comerford,
BBC News

Spain has "definitively" recalled its ambassador to Buenos Aires, in a rapidly escalating row over comments made in Madrid by Argentina's President Javier Milei.

President Milei said the decision was "absurd".

At a far-right rally on Sunday, he had described the wife of Spain's left-wing prime minister Pedro Sánchez as "corrupt", without directly naming Begoña Gómez.

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares summoned Argentina's ambassador Roberto Bosch the next day to demand a public apology from President Milei, but no action was taken.

Mr Albares described the case as unique in diplomatic history. "There is no precedent for a head of state who goes to another country's capital to insult its institutions and flagrantly interfere in its internal affairs," he said.

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