“I was not aware at that time of the impact it was going to have”

If I had known the “repercussion” it would have, Oscar Puente would not have suggested that the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, consumes “substances”. The Minister of Transport was asked this Tuesday if he regretted some words that last weekend strained relations between Spain and Argentina and his response was that the “error” was not having calibrated that some statements he made before an audience of “200 people” They were going to have so much reach. “I think it has been overreacted,” he added.

“I said what I said in the context in which I said it and the place isThe mistake is that if I had had the slightest notion that it was going to have the dissemination that it has had, I would not have said what I said,” said Puente during the press conference at the end of the Council of Ministers, in which He has also apologized and given explanations for this Monday’s incident on the Madrid Cercanías network.

“The mistake sometimes is that you think you are speaking to 200 people, at the University of Salamanca,” added Puente, who stands out for his ideas on communication and the management of social networks.

In addition to being a minister, Puente is perhaps the member of the Government with greater presence on the X network, old Twittera medium in which he recognizes that he knows how to move and in which He writes directly, without intermediaries, despite the recommendations even of the President of the Government himself, as noted by the same Pedro Sanchez at the presentation of his latest book.

Precisely, the event in which last Friday he uttered the words that caused outrage in Argentina was a round table on communication and social networks organized by the PSOE of Salamanca at the University of the city. His message there was that on social networks you have to “play hard” so as not to be “irrelevant.”

Milei responded to his words with a statement in which criticized Sánchez and referred to the complaints about his wife’s professional activity. This Monday, the PSOE tried to justify them by saying that they spoke in a “relaxed environment” And in the afternoon, the Argentine Government considered the controversy with Spain “over” after Puente’s “barbarity.”

“The story is over now. The current political situation surely has enough incentives for let’s change the third“said the minister this Tuesday.