The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has announced that tonight he will meet in person with the Argentine president, Javier Milei, on a day in which, as he explained, he will also hold contacts with other international leaders within the framework of his political agenda.
In statements to Onda Cero, collected by Europa Press, Abascal indicated that the Argentine president returns to Spain tonight and that both will have "a meeting" after the rally that the Vox leader will hold this afternoon in Cuenca.
Santiago Abascal stressed that, this time, the meeting will not be telematics, and he ironized: "This time it will not be by video call, so they don't say we are emulating the Torrente movie. It will be in person."
The leader of Vox added that yesterday he had the opportunity to meet with the vice president of Colombia, José Manuel Restrepo, and to hold a conversation with Abelardo de la Espriella, whom he cited as president of Colombia. In addition, as he specified, his agenda also includes a lunch with the president of Chile, José Antonio Kast.
"We are all also maintaining contacts with our allies these days," Abascal said, explaining the activity of these days regarding his relations with different international leaders.
His reading of the Republican defeat in the United States
Asked about the midterm elections in the United States (USA), in which Donald Trump's Republican Party lost, Abascal said he views them with "much less interest than national elections, frankly, as you can understand and for my own good."
However, he maintained that it is "something that happens regularly" and recalled that it also happened to Bill Clinton and George Bush. In his opinion, "many presidents lose the majority in the chambers in the middle of their term," although he warned that Donald Trump will continue in the White House for the next two years and that, therefore, "it is convenient to have a good relationship with the United States."
In that context, the president of Vox insisted that he is "quite busy with national elections" to worry too much about "any result of anyone else anywhere in the world."
Coincidences with other leaders and defense of national interest
When asked who he wants to resemble, whether Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen or Giorgia Meloni if he were to become president of the Government, Santiago Abascal replied that he does not seek to resemble anyone, although he does share coincidences with other international movements.
As he explained, these coincidences occur in the "defense of national sovereignty, borders, national interest," objectives that, in his opinion, his allies also share. However, he warned that this same defense of national interest sometimes causes clashes with those same interlocutors.
As an example, he cited Javier Milei, to whom he attributed a favorable position to Mercosur. Abascal stated that he told him that Vox could not support that position because "it went against the interests" of Spanish farmers and ranchers, and assured that Milei replied: "Oh, no drama, I understand perfectly."
Finally, he defended that the important thing is "to understand other political leaders who defend the interests of their nation," and he criticized those who, in his opinion, act in the opposite way, stating: "I do not understand those who defend foreign interests, like the President of the Government, who is the Moroccan candidate."