Thread by @EoghanGilmartin

Vox's huge far-right rally is beginning in Madrid this morning with chants of "Viva España! Viva Israel!"

Guests include Le Pen 🇫🇷, Ventura 🇵🇹, Orbán 🇭🇺, but the star of the show will be Javier Milei 🇦🇷. Also Israel's minister to combat anti-semitism is due to speak to a room

...containing numerous Holocaust deniers.

Event kicks off with video denouncing the UN Agenda 2030 development goals, a favourite target for party ideologue Jorge Buxade.

"We must put an end to these Communists who want to take away our families and freedoms", Mercedes Schlapp

Chileno Jose Antonio Cast is emphasizing Vox's pivotal role in the far-right's international organization:

"Thanks to Vox, thanks to the (anti-communist) Foro de Madrid, thanks to the Fundación Vincenzo for the hope and strength they have given to many...in Latin America."

André Ventura, Chega's leader is up next.

"We want strong borders because Europe is ours. Europe is ours!"

"We have to protect those who are suffering but we cannot continue to have this mass arrival of Islamic and Muslim migrants in Europe."

Vox's head of its European list Jorge Buxade now speaking, laying out the priorities for "the patriotic and conservative parties of Europe": repealing the EU green deal, protect farmers, exploit all possible energy resources, free Brussels from "the diabolical Agenda 2030

"Thank you Santiago Abascal for standing with the state of Israel rather than Hamas and Iran (ie like Sanchez). Thank you for standing with the truth, with goodness...This is an existential battle for the future of civilization against radical Islam." Amichai Chikli, Israeli min.

Chikli is now saying the rigged eurovision vote that saw Spain give 12 points to Israel is proof of a silent majority who, unlike the current government, supports Israel. The Israeli govhas admitted it invested in ensuring their act would win support eldiario.es/vertele/notici…

Le Pen is introduced as "one of the first to denounce the dangers of the islamization of her country"

Le Pen: "Abascal incarnates the Spanish patriotic movement...You can reactivate the true Europe. The Europe of freedom... The Europe of sovereignty and of identity, of nations"

"The EU wants to uniformise the whole continent whereas we want a Europe which secures cultural diversity and the identities of its peoples. The EU wants to promote islamization and the woke agenda. We want a Europe in which each people can defend its particular identity" Le Pen

Orban is phoning his speech in via videolink, talking about the need to protect our children from the twin threats of gender ideology and Islam

Meloni is also speaking via videolink, in large part so as not to alienate Manfred Weber or complicate relations with EPP - a grouping she is still holding out that her post-fascist Italian Brotherhood will join.

"Good morning, patriots..."

"The madness of the EU Green Deal."

"Monasteries were the first foundational stones of Europe. To deny this is to deny the nature of our civilization."

Meloni is now announcing Abascal to the stage

Milei now on stage singing in a manic voice as the crowd shout "Argentina, Argentina".

"As socialism destroyed Argentina, the free market saved the world."

"Socialism is an invitation to death"

"Social Justice is always unjust."

Milei giving a long-winded speech centred on the evils of socialism. But now attacks the global elites and "their NGOs".

Milei attacking Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez on stage in Madrid: "The global elites don't realise how destructive it is to implement socialist ideas and what level of corruption it can lead to. For example when you a corrupt wife and you take 5 days to think about it."