Argentina’s president Javier Milei will visit Pope Leo XIV

The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, will travel to Rome to meet with Pope Leo XIV, thus becoming one of the first heads of state to have an encounter with the new Pontiff.

This is indicated by the official agenda released by the presidency of the Nation, as part of a tour that will include the passage of the Argentine president in Spain, France and Israel. The meeting with the Holy Father is scheduled for the morning of Saturday, June 7.

It is expected that during the meeting, the president will formally ask the visit of the Holy Father to Argentina, a territory that he met before becoming a potato.

The Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei, will accompany Milei; Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein; and the secretary of cult, Nahuel Sotelo.

During his tour, Milei will also meet with his Italian couple Georgia Meloni, will participate in the closing of Madrid Economic Forum and will also meet with the president of France, Emmanuel Macron.

In his passage through Israel, he will hold meetings with President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He will also visit the wax wall and the Holy Sepulcher, and will participate in a tribute to those kidnapped by Hamas.

The link between Milei and the Catholic Church

Although since he assumed as president the relationship of Javier Milei with the Catholic Church had airs of pacification, including his visit to Pope Francis and the participation of a government delegation at his funeral, the past was marked by tensions and statements of the president against the figure of Jorge Bergoglio, whom he came to qualify as “the representative of the evil in the earth.”

The day the government assumed, Milei went to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires, where he participated in an interreligious invocation Presided by the local archbishop, Mons. Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva.

The president also regularly attends the prayer of Tedeum, as happened this weekend regarding a new anniversary of the first national government. In that framework, The Buenos Aires Archbishop denounced That in Argentina “fraternity is dying,” and lamented the situation of many who live marginality, exclusion and consequences of drug trafficking, as well as the reality of people with disabilities and retirees who do not receive a decent salary.

Upon knowing the news of the new Pope, and the election of the name Leo XIV, the president of Argentina, who makes himself nicknamed “León”, published on their social networks An image generated by artificial intelligence, where you can see a lion – as the one he uses to make references to himself – with the outfit of a Pope.