The ex-president Alberto Fernandez This Saturday he criticized the reaction of his successor, Javier Mileito the statements of the Minister of Transport of Spain, Óscar Puenteunderstanding that they met within the framework of “a shameful smear campaign” against the president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchez. Likewise, he believed that the libertarian reference “You have no reason to be so offended.”.
After last Friday Puente accused Milei of ingesting “substances”the national leader denounced his “slander and insults” and assured that “the Government of Pedro Sánchez has more important problems to deal with, such as the corruption accusations that fall on his wife.”
Faced with this response from the President, Fernández used his social network account X to warn that “in Argentina there is the largest community of Spanish immigrants in the world.” And along those lines, he “deeply regretted the reaction of the Argentine Government to a comment by a minister of the Spanish Government.”
“Nothing justifies that in its complaint the Argentine government joins a shameful campaign of defamation to the detriment of Pedro Sánchez and his familylaunched by the Spanish right that had the collaboration of certain media outlets and the complicity of that country’s justice system,” the former Argentine president warned in the publication he shared last night.
Finally, Fernández cited the poet Antonio Machado to discredit Milei’s reaction to Puente’s comments.
“The Argentine president may have been upset, but let me remind him that he has no reason to be so offended. At the end of the day, as a Spanish poet said, ‘The truth is never sad… what has no remedy’“, he concluded his message, which he illustrated with a map of Argentina to account for the almost 500,000 Spaniards who will live in the country by 2024.
The controversy between the Argentine and Spanish governments broke out last Friday, after statements that Minister Puente made at a round table on social networks and the public image of politicians. In this context, the Spanish official recommended that young people be themselves and jokingly added that “There are very bad people who, being themselves, have reached the top”.
In that sense, Óscar Puente gave as an example the cases of the Argentine President and the former North American president. donald trump. “I don’t know if they will have advisors. To Milei, of course, if she has advisors, I think she doesn’t listen much.”he added.
However, later the official went further and suggested that Milei had consumed drugs. “I saw Milei on TV, and according to her, she was listening to him, do you remember? The thing about… When she came out I do not know in what state and prior to ingestion or after ingestion of what substancesbut he came out to say what he said, a few days before… I said: ‘It is impossible for him to win the elections,'” Puente said during his presentation.
The official response from the Casa Rosada was forceful and after repudiating the official’s slander, it took aim directly at the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez.
“The government of Pedro Sánchez has bigger problems to deal with, such as the accusations of corruption that fall on his wife, an issue that even led him to evaluate his resignation. For the good of the Kingdom of Spain, we hope that justice acts quickly to clarify such a corruption scandal “That directly affects the stability of your Nation and, consequently, the relations with our country,” the official statement said.
The Argentine government’s response also covered the political level, with harsh criticism of Sánchez’s actions. “Pedro Sánchez has endangered the unity of the Kingdom, pacting with separatists and leading to the dissolution of Spain; has put Spanish women at risk allowing illegal immigration of those who attack their physical integrity; and has endangered the middle class with its socialist policies that only bring poverty and death,” the statement continued.
“We Argentines chose to change the model that brought us misery and decadence. The same model that the Spanish Socialist Workers Party applies in its country. We hope that the Spanish people will soon choose to live in freedom again,” she concluded.
Yesterday, Saturday, The Spanish Foreign Ministry flatly rejected the terms of the statement issued by the Office of the President of Argentina, since “do not correspond to the relations of two brother countries and peoples”. The organization that directs Jose Manuel Albares assured that the Government and the Spanish people “will continue to maintain and strengthen their fraternal ties and their friendship and collaboration relationships with the Argentine people, a will shared by the entire Spanish society.”
