The President of the Nation, Alberto Fernandez, met with the President of the Government of Navarra, María Victoria Chivite Navascués, at the Casa Rosada. During this meeting, they had the participation of the ambassador of Spain in Argentina, María Jesús Alonso Jiménez.
Chivite Navascués chatted with the Argentine president on the need to build new cultural ties and economic and technological development. In these fields, Chivite Navascués stressed that he could have the same interest agenda as Alberto Fernandez regarding “the wine industry, the agri-food sector, the development of green hydrogen and nuclear medicine”.
The president of Navarra also mentioned “the cultural and historical ties that unite us”, since the Navarrese community in our country is the largest that Navarra has abroad. Alberto Fernandez and the group of Argentine politicians were also praised for making progress around the policies of Memory, Truth and Justice. This constitutes “an example to replicate in Spain”.
In a purely political matter, President Chivite Navascués told Fernández that the “growth of the extreme right is not an exclusive matter of Argentina and Spain”. In this way, he referred to the far-right phenomenon that is taking place around the world, but also to a part of the Argentine opposition made up of Javier Milei and Luis Espert, from Avanza Libertad, and the Vox political group in Spain.
In addition, the president of Navarra stated that she manages to see a “window of opportunity” in the agreement that the economic bloc in which Argentina, Mercosur, and the European Union, which has Spain among its member countries, has.
The meeting with the vice president of Spain
Alberto Fernandez He also met with the Vice President of Spain, Yolanda Díaz, on Sunday the 11th of this month. Both politicians talked about the common challenges that their countries have and the problems to be addressed by Latin America and Europe.
The argentinian president He mentioned on his Twitter account that they talked about climate change, generating more jobs and “building true democratic multilateralism.” For his part, Díaz published on the same social network a thank you to Fernández for the reception in Buenos Aires and for having the fight against the climate crisis as the center of the talk.