“Do you remember when it came out in I don’t know what state prior to the ingestion or after the ingestion of I don’t know what substances…” These are the words of the Minister of Transport, Oscar Puenteabout the president of Argentina that have served to unleash a new problem in national politics but, this time, with an international touch.
Just a simple phrase has been enough for the Argentine president, Javier Mileiharshly attacked the Government of Pedro Sanchezthus creating a new diplomatic earthquake just when there are still Less than 15 days until the President of the Casa Rosada visits Spain.
The events began this Friday in a small round table on communication at the Luis Tudanca School of Government of the PSOE of Castile and León in Salamanca. In front of those attending the meeting, which also had the participation of the Minister of Equality, was Puente, who, in addition to defending the style that he uses on social networks, attacked leaders like trump or Milei.
“If I can give you some advice, be yourself, without fear, nothing happens. There are very bad people who, being themselves, have reached the top. Milei, for example, or Trump. I don’t know if they will have advisors. To Milei, if she has advisors, I think she doesn’t listen much,” stated the former mayor of Valladolid. But his words did not stop there, going so far as to affirm that the Argentine leader consumed “substances.” “I have seen Milei on TV and when she came out I don’t know in what state and after ingesting what substances…” Puente asserted.
As expected, the words reached Buenos Aires, where the official Office of the president of the country published a statement this Saturday in which, they say, “they repudiate slander and insults” that have been poured on Milei. The text, published on
“Pedro Sánchez’s government has more important problems to deal with, such as the corruption accusations against his wife, an issue that even led him to evaluate his resignation. For the good of the Kingdom of Spain“We hope that justice will act to clarify such a scandal, which affects the stability of your Nation and, consequently, the relations with our country,” the letter reads.
Likewise, the official statement also attacks the pacts of Pedro Sánchez’s Executive with pro-independence formations because, it states, “they endanger the unity of the Kingdom.” He also assures that “he has put Spanish women at risk by allowing illegal immigration” and that “has endangered the middle class” with its socialist policies that, according to the President’s Office, “only bring poverty and death.” Finally, the text ends by expressing his wish that “the Spanish people will soon choose to live in freedom again.”
The Government rejects the statement
After the Argentine letter, the reaction of the Spanish Government It hasn’t been long in coming. Shortly after the statement issued by the Milei Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded with another note in which it ensures that these unfounded terms “do not correspond to the relations of brother countries and peoples.”
This clash of accusations between both parties thus occurs just a few days before the Argentine president visits our country.. A trip in which will not meet, however, with any official authority of the State. His presence is confirmed in an act of Vox scheduled for next May 18 and 19 in Madrid. There Milei will participate with Santiago Abascal to express their support, a closeness that was already evident when the Vox leader accompanied the president of Argentina on December 10 at his inauguration.
Milei’s visit, announced on March 29, also surprised the Spanish authorities, since the Argentine president He has not asked to meet with the President of the Government or the King during his trip to Spain. It should be noted that Sánchez and Milei did meet last January at the Davos forum, Swissbut the truth is that they did not meet, at least not publicly, and their interventions at that meeting defended contrary ideas.
Despite this, the department led by Puente’s colleague, Jose Manuel Albaresadded in his statement that the Government and the Spanish people will continue “maintaining and strengthening their fraternal ties and its relations of friendship and collaboration with the Argentine people, a will shared by the entire Spanish society.”
The PP requests the dismissal of Puente
In the midst of this crisis, the president of the People’s Party, Alberto Núñez-Feijóohas urged the Government to dismiss the Minister of Transport: “Mr. Puente should be dismissed, but He is neither going to resign nor be firedbecause Puente and Sánchez enjoy the quagmire in which they are trying to put Spain.”
Thus, the leader of the Popular Party, who was participating in a rally in Badalona on the occasion of the Catalan electoral campaign, he added that the socialist leaders “they just created a political crisis with a brother country”, adding that Spain deserves “another level”.
In the same sense it has been expressed, Borja Semper, national spokesperson of the party, who has assured that Spain deserves “a Government that is not embarrassing.” “A minister from Spain accusing the president of Argentina because everything is very funny and what does it matter. “We deserve a government that has a level and does not get us into gratuitous trouble.”
