He Spanish Government appealed to the ties that unite Argentina and Spain to continue maintaining these friendly relations after some demonstrations by the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, against the Argentine president, Javier Mileiprovoked the angry reaction of the office of the South American president, who attacked the head of the Spanish Executive, Pedro Sanchez.
All on account of Puente’s demonstrations at an event this Friday in the city of Salamanca (center) on social networks, where he stated that “on the networks you play hard and, if you don’t do it, you go unnoticed and are irrelevant.” Puente referred to “very bad people who, being themselves, have reached the top,” such as former US President Donald Trump and the current Argentine president.
But he went further and said that he had seen Milei make some statements during the election campaign “when he came out, I don’t know in what state and prior to ingesting or after ingesting what substances,” without giving more details.
The Spanish minister’s statements not only served to be repudiated by the Office of the President of the Argentine Republic, but also to the leader of the conservative Popular Party (PP), first of the Spanish opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to ask for resignation or dismissal. of bridge.
Flat rejection of the “unfounded” terms of the Argentine statement
The statement from Milei’s Office criticized Puente’s statements, but also Pedro Sánchez with these words: “He has more important problems to deal with, such as the corruption accusations leveled against his wife, an issue that even led him to consider resigning.”
It refers to a complaint from self-proclaimed far-right union Clean Hands against Sánchez’s wife, Begoña Gómez, for the alleged commission of crimes of influence peddling and corruption in business, based on press reports, and which Sánchez describes as hoaxes.
“For the good of the Kingdom of Spain, we hope that justice will act quickly to clarify such a corruption scandal that directly affects the stability of your Nation and, consequently, relations with our country,” the text from the Argentine Presidency continued.
Some terms that The Spanish Government, through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “flatly” rejected and described them as “unfounded”, because they also do not correspond “with the relations of two brother countries and peoples.”
“The Government and the Spanish people – stated the Spanish Ministry in a statement – will continue to maintain and strengthen their fraternal ties and their relations of friendship and collaboration with the Argentine people.will shared by the entire Spanish society”.
Along the same lines, the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, recalled that “the Argentine people and the Spanish people are two brother peoples that have a long historical record of common achievements and will continue to do so.
Redondo downplayed Milei’s criticism. “I think what is really important is the fraternal relationship that exists between the Spanish people and the Argentine people,” she insisted.
Feijóo calls for Puente’s resignation
He president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóowas forceful at a rally in Badalona (Barcelona) during the campaign for the regional elections in Catalonia, in which He urged Puente to “resign or be fired” for having caused “a political crisis with a sister country” like Argentina.
“They boast of international relevance, and they have just created a political crisis with a brother country like the Republic of Argentina. They ask that they not be insulted, and they insult everyone,” Feijóo denounced before assuring that the socialists “are a hoax factory” and “they move like no one else in the quagmire”.
Puente en X immediately replied: “It is impossible to distinguish him from the extreme right.”
“Between supporting his government or Milei, he was going to choose Milei, he was not eligible. He is already asking for a place to be made for him at the rally with Abascal on May 18. It is impossible to distinguish him from the extreme right,” Puente wrote in his social network account
Puente is a politician who is characterized by his direct and sometimes harsh language, both on social networks and in his public interventions. and in this message, he refers to Milei’s participation on May 18 in a meeting organized in Madrid by the far-right party Vox, whose president, Santiago Abascal, is very close to the Argentine president, whom he accompanied on December 10 in Buenos Aires. Aires at his inauguration.
Also the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, leader of the left-wing Sumar party, a partner of the socialists in the Government, referred to the PP in her X account and wrote: “To no one’s surprise, between the Spanish Government of economic growth and the distribution of wealth and the Argentine Government of recession and massive impoverishment, the PP sides with Milei and not our country.
