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After Mexico and Colombia, Argentina’s self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist is now aiming to gamble away the relationship with Spain.
Madrid/Buenos Aires – After a swipe from the Spanish Transport Minister, Oscar Puente, against Argentina’s President Javier Milei, he shoots back. Buenos Aires suggests Puentes resigns. Puente said on Friday during a conference of the social democratic PSOE that he had seen Milei on television during the presidential election campaign. “I don’t know if it was before or after taking (…) substances,” he added.
Milei’s office responded promptly with a statement in which the right-wing populist opposed the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez distributed. The socialist probably has “more important problems to deal with, such as this Corruption allegations against his wife“, read the official statement from Casa Rosada. In addition, Sánchez is jeopardizing the unity of Spain through a pact with separatists, endangering Spanish women through illegal immigration and endangering the middle class through “socialist policies that only bring poverty and death.”
Milei’s all-round attack on the Spanish government: Buenos Aires suggests dismissing the minister
Now Buenos Aires responded again with a sweeping attack on Sánchez’s socialist government. Argentina’s Interior Minister Guillermo Francos echoed Sánchez in an interview Radio Mitre close to dismissing Puente.
For the Argentine President, who is known for his chainsaw campaign, it is not the first rift with actually close governments. Milei has also previously fallen out with the presidents of Mexico and Colombia. Milei had the Colombian president in an interview with the US television station CNN called a “terrorist murderer.” Colombia then ordered the expulsion of several Argentine diplomats.
Now it seems to be Spain’s turn for the Argentine right-wing populist. The fact that Milei was neither Sánchez nor King Felipe VI on his first visit to Spain as president in May. wants to meet, but instead campaign for the right-wing populist Vox for that EUParliament is unlikely to improve relations. (dpa/pav)
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