The Head of State of Argentina, Javier Milei, has once again been a protagonist at the Davos Forum with an iconoclastic speech unusual in the sessions of the World Economic Forum, where he described a new "international alliance" including Donald Trump, Giorgia Meloni, Benjamin Netanyahu, Viktor Orban, or the magnate Elon Musk, whom he described as "wonderful". "What seemed like a hegemony of woke leftism has been crumbling, but our battle is not won, we must tear down the building of sickly wokism." "It is a cancer that must be removed," he declared. "Forums like this have been promoters of a sinister agenda," he reproached the Davos audience.
In his speech, he did not explicitly mention the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, but later criticized him when journalists asked him about the socialist's speech at the same forum the day before. "Regrettable, like everything Sánchez does and says."
He referred to the Spanish Prime Minister's intervention in favor of setting limits on social media for messages that, in his opinion, "erode democracy," proposing even holding magnates like Elon Musk criminally responsible for allowing such traffic on his X platform.
"I am not surprised that a socialist like Sánchez tries to silence all those who think differently with messages that are not what he wants," Milei emphasized. Overall, he argued that "we must free ourselves from bourgeois socialism that destroys the West."
The Argentine president did take the opportunity to moderate his previous message about a possible withdrawal from Mercosur to prioritize a free trade agreement with the United States. "We can advance in formulas without losing the Mercosur alliance," he clarified, addressing the astonishment caused among his Ibero-American partners by his statements on this commercial agreement and the European Union.
The President of the World Economic Forum, Borge Brende, congratulated Milei for his "remarkable" economic management, eliminating the deficit and reducing inflation "in just one year."