Argentina’s President Javier Milei called for the founding of an international alliance of right-wing leaders and nations to fight the left and socialism, and to act as the Roman legions who were able to defeat larger armies.
Milei’s call came in a fiery speech he delivered on Saturday evening in Rome. The president was in the Italian capital to meet Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and to take part, as a guest of honor, in the annual festival of her Brothers of Italy party, which traces its roots to a neo-fascist group set up after World War II.
At the party, Meloni introduced her guest, who boasts of his friendship with Israel and US President-elect Donald Trump, as “the leader of a cultural revolution in a friendly country.”
She said they shared an opposition to welfare payments and believe that work is the only way to fight poverty.
Milei said far-right parties have a historical duty to combat socialism and therefore, should stand together, establishing channels of cooperation throughout the world.
He warned that the right-wing and liberal forces had paid a heavy price due to their fragmentation, inability, or refusal to confront a united left wing.
He criticized socialists, saying they prefer to rule in a collapsed country than serve in a prosperous one.
Milei celebrates one year in office this week. Since his election campaign and even in his oath-taking speech, the president had repeated calls to face socialism and left-wing parties.
