Just a few weeks after the official trip to Argentina of the Italian premier, Giorgia Meloni, the president of that country, Javier Milei, has reciprocated with a visit to Rome to reinforce the “solid” alliance they maintain and to participate this Saturday in the political festival organized every year by the youth of Meloni’s far-right party, Brothers of Italy.
The Argentine president was the star guest of this congress, called Atreju, and he did not disappoint the attendees. He went on stage hand in hand with Meloni herself, who presented him as the person responsible for “a cultural revolution in a friendly country and who knows that work is the only antidote to poverty,” amidst cheers, applause and cries of “freedom.” , freedom”. From the box, Milei called for the creation of a kind of global entente of the extreme right, a “right-wing international,” in his words. An idea that was received by the public with applause.
“We have to live up to the historical moment and the most effective way to do so is by being together, establishing channels of cooperation throughout the world, returning to the idea that organized evil is defeated through the organization of good. . We must establish ties in the face of the abuses of socialism with an incipient right-wing international,” Milei launched. And he summarized: “We have to be like a Roman legion that always prevails over larger armies, precisely because no one breaks formation.” And he insisted on the idea of union: “Because we believe that liberals do not form a herd, many have fallen into the trap of not organizing; in Argentina that mistake cost us dearly: a whole century of humiliation.” […] The left would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. If they have to transform heaven into hell, they are going to do it, that is why we have to respond with greater force.”
It is not the first time that Milei has launched this idea of uniting the far right from around the world. He also asked for it in the meeting in Argentina with the head of the Italian Government, with whom he maintains a great rapport and with whom he has met on several occasions in his first year as president. Meloni wanted to reciprocate the affinity between the two by granting Italian nationality to the Argentine and his sister Karina, general secretary of the Presidency, because their grandparents emigrated to Argentina from Calabria at the beginning of the 20th century. “More than among friends, I feel like I’m with family,” said the Argentine.
The measure, although it is within the margins of the law, has been criticized by the Italian opposition, which has been demanding for some time that the process to obtain nationality be facilitated for children born in the country of migrant parents, something that both Meloni as his political partners completely reject. Riccardo Magi, deputy of the More Europe party, described the granting of nationality to the Milei as “an insult”, which represents “intolerable discrimination against so many young people who will only obtain it after many years of bureaucracy.”
The Argentine met on Friday in Rome with Giorgia Meloni with the intention of strengthening bilateral relations between Italy and Argentina, especially in matters of judicial cooperation, trade and the fight against organized crime. And on Saturday in Atreju, which was held at the Circus Maximus in the Italian capital, he offered his particular recipe “for exercising power.” “We must not leave space for the enemy, we are better at everything and they are going to lose against us. The only way to combat organized evil is with well-organized evil,” he cried.
Much of his speech was broadcast live on the continuous information channel of Italian public television. In his master lesson on how to govern, Javier Milei outlined formulas such as “better to tell an uncomfortable truth than a comfortable lie”, “not to use ideas to attract votes”, or “not to form political alliances with other spaces”, since “ “Water and oil don’t mix.” He also noted that “the free market produces prosperity for all” and that “government has to be limited.” And she stressed to her ally Meloni, who has a life dedicated to politics and has just completed two years as prime minister: “We don’t give a damn about the opinion of politicians, traditional politics has brought us nothing but ruin.”
Milei also launched a plea in defense of “the freedom of the West”, an issue that he has raised with Meloni on other occasions and that he defined in Rome as “a just and noble cause, since it is our great civilizing feat.” As usual, the Argentine concluded his participation with shouts of “long live freedom, damn it!”, which were received with applause among Meloni’s coreligionists.
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