Overview
- Casa Rosada formally requested EU agrément on November 6 to advance the appointment of Fernando Iglesias, a national deputy and chair of the lower house foreign affairs committee.
- The Brussels post has been vacant since June 2024 after Atilio Berardi’s transfer, and European counterparts had pushed for a resident ambassador as talks progressed.
- The nomination still requires EU clearance, endorsement by the Senate’s Comisión de Acuerdos, and a presidential decree, a process that could take months.
- Iglesias, a close ally who accompanied President Milei on recent trips, touted his international relations credentials on X and is set to leave Congress when his term ends on December 10.
- Coverage recalls a 2021 judicial inquiry that lifted Iglesias’s bank and tax secrecy in an illicit enrichment case, an issue likely to feature in Senate vetting.