Following CFK’s criticism, Mayans said: “Should we also send those who made Alberto president of the PJ to the psychiatric hospital?”
The head of the Union for the Homeland interbloc in the Senate said that he did not think that “there would be so much fuss” over his joke with Villarruel, of whom he clarified that he “never” said that “he was a Peronist.”
Following criticism from the former president Cristina Kirchner On Peronist leaders who praise the vice president Victoria Villarruelthe head of the Union for the Homeland interbloc, Jose Mayanshe said: “What do we do with those who put Alberto (Fernández) as president of the party (Justicialista)? Do we send them to the psychiatric hospital too?
“I never said she was a Peronist,” the man from Formosa said about Villarruel, adding that he did speak of a “closeness” in terms of “national thought” and the Malvinas cause.
Interviewed in Radio 10the legislator recalled that in the last session “it was a joke that I made and I never thought that such a mess would arise”, when he had an exchange with the president of the Senate about the nickname “jamoncito” with which Villarruel once called Javier Miley.
“She told me ‘thank you very much, a friend’, and that’s when it occurred to me that we need to deepen our friendship. Well, worse. That’s when I went to the other side,” he said, laughing.
Mayans said that he has a “good relationship” with the vice president because “Parliament is about talking to everyone,” but he pointed out that “obviously we have a totally different vision.”
The senator pointed out that in an interview he was asked “who is closer to our thinking, Milei or Villarruel, and I said that Villarruel is a nationalist and that there are things that are closer to us, such as the defense of the Malvinas cause and I do not believe that he agrees with the alignment with the United States and England.”
The UP leader in the Upper House assured that the movement is “neither sectarian nor exclusive” and that “Peronism has no owners.” “He is a person who has been elected by 56% of Argentines, we engage in dialogue because we have to engage in dialogue,” he added.
“Peronism is in a leadership crisis, because we lost the elections and made mistakes. I know that dirty laundry is washed at home. I have nothing against (former president) Alberto (Fernández), but they appointed him president of the party (PJ) and he was a social democrat. What do we do with those who appointed Alberto president of the party? Do we send them to the psychiatric hospital as well?” he said.
And, when asked if the barb was aimed at CFK, who chose him as a candidate for president of the Nation, he replied: “A group of people said that Alberto had to be president of the party. I don’t know if she put him there.”
