The president-elect of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, celebrated this Saturday the King of Spain, Felipe VI, on the occasion of his visit to Montevideo to attend his inauguration and thanked him for the deference he has had to move to his country to be present at the presidential relay ceremony.
Lacalle, who on Sunday will take office, invited the King to his private residence in the urbanization Los Altos de La Tahona, just outside the Uruguayan capital.
Before sharing a lunch in that residence, he was received at a leisure center in this urbanization and held a meeting with other representatives of both countries.
The King was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Arancha González Laya, and Lacalle, who will be his Foreign Minister, Ernesto Talvi.
Prior to the arrival of the King, the Uruguayan president-elect told reporters that the presence of the monarch in his inauguration is very important support for him.
He added that relations between Spain and Uruguay are very good , he recalled that many of the Uruguayans have Spanish roots and commented that he has already agreed with the King on several occasions, the first one in 1990 in Madrid and then several times in Uruguay and in the Spanish city of Palma in 1994.
Felipe VI will be the only foreign head of state that Lacalle invites to meet him before his inauguration this Sunday, a gesture to personally thank his presence at the presidential relay ceremony.
Lacalle told reporters that he invited him to lunch "because Uruguayan meat is the richest in the world . And wines too," he added.
Specifically, he advanced that he was going to entertain the Spanish head of state with a menu consisting of choricitos, entrails, a rack of ribs and a roast of strip, and the dessert, which he did not specify, was prepared by a friend of his.
The president-elect stressed that he has many challenges ahead and invited to listen to his words in his inauguration to specify what his priorities will be.
Numerous neighbors of the urbanization congregated in the leisure center where the meeting took place to receive their protagonists and cheer them.
The pre-lunch meeting between the King and Lacalle lasted almost half an hour, and, at the end, both greeted the people who were still waiting for them before moving to the residence of the elected president.
They did it in a vehicle he drove who will become president of Uruguay tomorrow and with the King in the passenger seat.
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