In his own way, with a retweet from an account he personally follows, Javier Milei came out to support Chancellor Diana Mondinoafter the different versions that he was upset with her and that he planned to replace her.
The message that the President retweeted, after returning from his trip to Italy and Switzerland, is from the unidentified libertarian user called The Lady Mondino, and which is described as “Account dedicated to the best Chancellor in Argentine history”. And she carries a photo of the minister with the sunglasses she always wears.
And the post retweeted by Milei from La Lady Mondino says: “’The tour without a chancellor,’” said the enveloped @JMilei giving the speech in Switzerland with @DianaMondino and @KarinaMileiOk is all that is good.” He closes the message with an Argentine flag, an excited emoji and a violet heart, in addition to the video of Milei giving his speech at the inaugural summit “for peace in Ukraine” that he gave this Saturday in Bürgenstock, Switzerland. In the video are the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worshipand the General Secretary of the Presidency, and Milei’s sister.
In this way, the President seems to want to put an end to the versions, even coming from his own Government, that the Milei were very upset with Mondino, a libertarian from the first hour of the electoral campaign, and that they were even looking for his replacement.
The minister I was this Sunday in Bürgenstock representing the President along with other international leaders, at the so-called “summit for peace in Ukraine”, although without Russia and China. The Minister of Defense, Luis Petri, was also there.
Milei, meanwhile, returned to Buenos Aires to leave again for Spain and Germany next week. Milei He participated with Mondino in the opening session of the summit for Ukraine, and in a special meeting with Zelensky, in which the Chancellor is seen taking her institutional place. The minister travels to New York on Monday to give the country’s now traditional speech before the United Nations Decolonization Committee, where she once again A resolution that calls on Argentina and the United Kingdom to maintain a peaceful dialogue will be debated about the sovereignty of the Falkland Islandswhich Buenos Aires claims.
The revelations were many and the imbalances were immense because the President found himself with a Foreign Ministry that had to put out diplomatic conflicts caused by his fights with other leaders -like Gustavo Petro, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Pedro Sánchez- or maintain other ties that are null, distant or bad: especially with the entire Southern Cone, starting with Lula da Silva. And his disruptive vision collides with state policies in some cases.
That entire agenda that Mondino carries began to falter due to his own mistakes and the presidential whirlwind. They jumped into the air when a little over a week ago The President suspended his participation in the King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center, in Palermo, at the last minute, because the charge d’affaires of Palestine was there. He did so, causing astonishment and annoyance among 50 countries, due to his emotional affinity with Israel.
That made him very angry with Mondino, the Government stated, saying that the official did not foresee it. But as they are seen talking at the inauguration of Guillermo Francos as Chief of Staff, The Chancellor had discussed it with him that day. And everyone knew that it was impossible to have a meeting with the Arabs and Muslims excluding the Palestinian representative because no one was going to go. For that matter, later The Arab League protested.
Mondino’s bad days continued when it became known that Karina Milei stayed by decree with the agency that handles investment promotion and that Until last week, it was under the leadership of the Secretary of International Trade of the Foreign Ministry, currently headed by Ambassador Marcelo Cima.
The speculations, which apparently the President wants to put an end to with his tweet, rose in tone when it was learned that he was not taking Mondino to the G7, in Puglia, Italy. He traveled with Karina Milei, with the head of the Economic Council, Demian Reidel; with the ambassador to the United States, Gerardo Werthein, who was acting as foreign minister; and with the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Fernando Iglesias. In Buenos Aires, the versions did not stop: it was stated that both the Secretary of Tourism and Sports, Daniel Scioli, and Werthein himself, tried on the minister’s suit in a cabinet convulsed by the dismissal of Nicolás Posse, as Chief of Staff, and especially now because of the strong crisis that continues to affect the Ministry of Human Capital, led by Sandra Pettovello and which was supported numerous times by Milei. The president had said in the midst of his crisis with Posse that his entire Cabinet was “under analysis” until the Base Law.
Throughout the following days, no one from the Government itself denied the distance and lack of dialogue between the President and his Minister, who, as happens in other ministries,assigned personnel assigned by Karina Milei and Santiago Caputo – a kind of “kind” intervention – to follow the letter of speeches that have a strictly libertarian tone.
It was even said that Mondino should change his team of diplomats, but this Saturday the minister was heard saying that her people were “screwed” with her workingstarting with the vice chancellor Leopoldo Sahores, who leads the political line of foreign policy, which has taken a strong turn in issues of human rights, democracy and especially in what concerns Argentina’s allies.
In the case of the country’s traditional foreign policy, there were strong clashes that have been felt especially within the United Nations and the Organization of American States, where Sonia Cavallo has just taken office as ambassador. From La Rosada they do not want Argentina to assume commitments with the 2030 Sustainable Development agenda that, in a normal situation, they should assume. Milei does not join the WHO pandemic treaty eitherwith the excuse that it imposes quarantines, which is not the case.
That was another difference with Mondino, that of the 2030 Agenda, found some news this Saturday. Because Milei himself made a commitment to the 2030 Agenda, which both her friend Georgia Meloni and the G7 leaders expressed in the Group’s declaration in Italy.
Another striking fact this week is that after messages from his ministers Mondino, Luis Caputo (Economy) and now from the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos, Milei decided to travel to the People’s Republic of China, which he previously rejected. It was after Xi Jinping’s gesture of renewing to Argentina a section of the currency swap between the Central Banks of the two countries. They were equivalent in yuan to US$5 billion, which added to Argentina’s meager reserves and was due in June.
