The Spanish minister who unleashed an exchange of inflammatory statements between Spain and Argentina admitted this Monday that Suggesting that the Argentine president, Javier Milei, took drugs was a “mistake” and that if he knew the repercussion it would have, he would not have said it.
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“If I had had the slightest notion, and this is perhaps my big mistake, that it was going to have the dissemination and impact that it has had, I would not have said what I said,” admitted the Minister of Transportation, Óscar Puente, in a press conference after a council of ministers.
If I had had the slightest notion, and this is perhaps my big mistake, that it was going to have the dissemination and impact it has had, I would not have said what I said.
“I have seen Milei on TV (…) when she came out I don’t know in what state, prior to ingesting or after ingesting what substances,” said Puente, who also pointed out that “There are very bad people who, being themselves, have reached the top,” in reference to the Argentine president.
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The Spanish Foreign Ministry responded in turn by rejecting the “unfounded terms” of the Argentine government, which “do not correspond to the relations of two brother countries and peoples.”
Although he considered that “there has been a lot of overreaction on this issue,” Puente showed his regret: “I said what I said, I was not aware at that time of the repercussion it could have.”
The minister considered the clash with Argentina settled, and recalled that On Monday, Argentine presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni declared the issue “finished.”
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“I am sure that regardless of the vicissitudes that the relations between the two governments go through, which will sometimes be better, other times worse, they will continue to be good, positive, collaborative relations,” Puente added.
The right-wing Milei plans to participate on May 19 in an event of the Spanish far-right party Vox in Madrid, a trip in which he has not scheduled a meeting with Pedro Sánchez, according to the Argentine presidency.
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