Spain rejected on Saturday “the unfounded terms” of the statements of the Argentine government, headed by Javier Milei, in which it accuses its Spanish counterpart, Pedro Sánchez, of bringing “poverty and death” to its country.
“The government of Spain categorically rejects the unfounded terms of the statement issued by the Office of the President of the Argentine Republic, which do not correspond to the relations of two brother countries and peoples,” indicates the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“The Government and the Spanish people will continue to maintain and strengthen their fraternal ties and their relations of friendship and collaboration with the Argentine people, a will shared by all of Spanish society,” the statement added.
Policies of “poverty and death”
The statement was released in response to statements by the Argentine presidency, published hours earlier, in which Sánchez, of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), is accused of leading the European country towards “poverty.”
“Sánchez (…) has endangered the middle class with his socialist policies that only bring poverty and death,” the Argentine presidency said in a statement published on the social network X.
Policies of “poverty and death”
The statement was released in response to statements by the Argentine presidency, published hours earlier, in which Sánchez, of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), is accused of leading the European country towards “poverty.”
“Sánchez (…) has endangered the middle class with his socialist policies that only bring poverty and death,” the Argentine presidency said in a statement published on the social network X.
Putting “the dissolution of Spain” in danger
Buenos Aires also accused Sánchez of having “jeopardized the unity of the Kingdom, agreeing with the separatists and leading to the dissolution of Spain”, a reference to the political agreement of the PSOE with the Basque and Catalan independence parties to form a government in 2023.
As part of the agreement, the PSOE accompanied and achieved the approval in Congress of an amnesty law for independentists who participated in the attempted secession of Catalonia in 2017, which has generated a frontal rejection from the opposition.
Milei had been accused of ingesting “substances”
The Argentine presidency also accused Sánchez of having “more important problems to deal with, such as the corruption accusations that fall on his wife” Begoña Gómez, investigated for influence peddling and corruption.
The attacks by Milei’s far-right government were in response to a comment by the Spanish Minister of Transportation, Óscar Puente, who accused the Argentine leader of ingesting “substances.”
Milei will embark on a trip to Spain in two weeks, where he will participate, as he did in 2022, in an event organized by the far-right opposition party Vox, which will take place on May 18 and 19.
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