The standoff between Buenos Aires and Madrid escalated: after a Spanish minister’s comment that Argentina’s president Javier Millay was taking drugs, Buenos Aires accused Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of endangering women and leading Spain to poverty, a statement that was called “unfounded” by Madrid.
It all started with the comment, on Friday night, of Spain’s Transport Minister Oscar Puente. “I saw Miley on TV” when he was campaigning, the minister told a conference organized by the Socialist Party. “I don’t know if it was before or after he took (…) substances (…). I thought: it is not possible to win the election. There are a lot of bad people who, being who they are, made it to the top,” he added, citing Miley and former US President Donald Trump as examples.
Millay was quick to respond to Puente’s statements with a very sharp post on Platform X, where he accuses Sánchez of leading the Spanish people “to poverty and death”.
“Sanchez endangers the middle class with his socialist policies that bring only poverty and death” and undermined “the unity of the kingdom by making a deal with the separatists” while at the same time allowing “illegal immigration” putting Spanish women at risk, he argued . Millay also said Sanchez “has more important issues to deal with, such as the corruption charges against his wife,” which prosecutors have suggested be dropped.
Madrid responded in turn to Millay, with a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in which it “categorically rejects” the “baseless” statements of the Argentine president “that do not correspond to the relations between the two countries and their fraternal peoples”.
Millay will visit Spain in two weeks to participate in an event organized by the far-right, anti-immigration Vox party. But he is not going to meet either with the prime minister or the king of the country.
In Argentina’s presidential election, Pedro Sanchez openly supported Miley’s opponent, Sergio Massa, and did not call the new president to congratulate him after his victory. Spain’s foreign ministry limited itself to wishing “good luck to Argentina in this new step”, without mentioning Javier Millay by name. Instead, Vox leader Santiago Abascal went to Buenos Aires and attended Millay’s inauguration.
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