Through a brief six-line statement that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs published on its website this Saturday, the Government of Spain “flatly rejects” the letter that the Office of President Javier Milei released on social networks in response to the statements of the Minister of Transportation, Oscar Puente, who said that the Argentine president, during the electoral campaign, consumed “substances.” However, He did not make any reference to that grievance of the official who started the conflict.
“The Government of Spain flatly rejects the unfounded terms of the statement issued by the Office of the President of the Argentine Republic, which do not correspond to the relations of two brother countries and peoples“says statement 020 that the Spanish Foreign Ministry uploaded to its website this Saturday morning.
In an official note on letterhead with the logo of the Office of the President of the Argentine Republic, the government of Javier Milei had stressed on Friday night that Pedro Sánchez’s management has more important problems that must be addressed, “like the accusations of corruption that fall on his wife, “A matter that even led him to evaluate his resignation.”
The words of the letter allude to the attitude of Sánchez, who took five days of reflection to decide whether he would continue as head of the government after a court opened an investigation into his wife for alleged influence peddling.
In line with the arguments of the Popular Party and Vox – harsh opponents of the policies of the PSOE leader, Pedro Sánchez -, the Argentine statement points out that Sánchez’s pacts with the Catalan and Basque independence parties to achieve his re-election “They have endangered the unity of the Kingdom” and will lead to the dissolution of Spain.
It also points to illegal immigration as a threat to Spanish women and to socialist policies as a “danger for the middle class” because “they bring poverty and death.”
Without going into details, Sánchez’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects the concepts of Milei’s statement because it considers them unfounded and is committed to lowering the tone of the clash: “The government and the Spanish people They will continue to maintain and strengthen their fraternal ties and their relations of friendship and collaboration with the Argentine people, will shared by all of Spanish society.”
But the statement at no time does it refer to outburst against Milei by the Spanish Minister of Transport, Oscar Puente, which generated the reaction of the Casa Rosada.
Spanish government sources indicated Clarion that It is likely that the Moncloa Palace will not make any further statements on the matter.
The declaration of controversy
At a meeting on communication and social networks in Salamanca, the Spanish Minister of Transport took a shot at the Argentine president: “There are very bad people who, being themselves, have reached the top. Milei, for example”, Puente said.
And he tried to give an example although he did not spare himself by saying that he had seen the Argentine president on television while he was on an electoral campaign. “prior to ingestion or after ingestion of who knows what substances.”
It was almost 2 in the morning this Saturday in Spain when the Argentine Government published its official statement, which was immediately echoed by the Argentine Liberals Association in Spain that has just been created.
Freedom Advances Spain
On its social networks, La Libertad Avanza España pointed out that Milei “You cannot be afraid of Sánchez, an illegitimate president who came to power by lying to his voters, ‘changing his mind’ and agreeing with anti-Spanish people.”
Milei plans to travel to Spain in mid-May. Will participate the weekend of the 18th and 19th at the Viva Festival organized by Vox. He will be in Madrid to support his friend and leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, ahead of the elections to the European Parliament of June.
From Catalonia, where he is accompanying his candidate to the elections next Sunday, May 12, Abascal referred to the issue. “It seems that the president of the government has taken a liking to whining, to victimizing himself, and now they are shocked that the president of Argentina has had to remember the alleged corruption in the environment of the president of the government,” said Abascal. And He has done so in response to some very serious statements by a Sánchez minister saying that the president of a sister country like Argentina must take some type of substance. “It’s extreme gravity.”
“I think the response of the president of Argentina is very moderate“he added.
The PP calls for the resignation of the minister
The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, asked for resignation of Pedro Sánchez’s minister who offended Javier Milei.
“They boast of international relevance and have just created a political crisis with a sister country such as the Argentine Republic,” said Núñez Feijóo.
“Today Mr. Puente should resign or be fired. But he is neither going to resign nor be fired because Puente and Sánchez enjoy the quagmire in which they are trying to put Spain,” he said.
The Spanish Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, avoided commenting on the statements of his Transport colleague but did give his opinion on Javier Milei and his policies: “He is the antithesis of what we mean and project in the government of Spain.”
And he called Milei “a supporter of promoting inequality.”
Milei He did not request formal meetings with King Felipe VI or with the President of the Government Pedro Sánchez. He will return to Madrid in June to receive the Juan de Mariana Institute Award “for the exemplary defense of the ideas of freedom.”
