Alberto Núñez Feijóo has demanded the resignation or dismissal of the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, for his statements about the president of Argentina, Javier Milei. “They boast of international relevance and have just created a political crisis with a sister country like Argentina. They ask that they not be insulted and they insult everyone,” began the national leader of the PP, at a rally held in Badalona this afternoon. "Today Mr. Puente should resign or be fired, but it is not going to happen because Puente and Sánchez enjoy the quagmire in which they are trying to put Spain."
At the central campaign event for the regional elections in Catalonia, held in Trafalgar Square, Feijóo paused his speech and attacked Puente for his statements against the Argentine president. “They do not stop insulting anyone who is necessary to achieve their interests,” Feijóo criticized.
The president of the PP has also made reference to the five-day crisis that Pedro Sánchez was involved in and has said that in recent weeks we have been seeing the dramatization of Sánchez, “that young man who believes himself above the rest”, and has added that, to stay in power and make a country “tailored to him,” he has tried to eliminate any critical voice that came “from his party” and has pointed the finger at “the judges, the journalists and the Popular Party.”
Feijóo's statements come after the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, said at a social media event in Salamanca yesterday that “very bad people, being themselves, have reached the top,” in reference to the former US president Donald Trump and the current Argentine president. Milei, who repudiated Puente's "slander and insults" in a statement, attacked the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez.
“No one is safe from the purge,” Feijóo continued, and assured that the socialists “are a factory of hoaxes.” The popular one has criticized the “international leadership” that, according to him, President Sánchez boasts and has stated that while the socialists ask that they not be insulted, “they insult everyone.” “What would the Government say if a minister of President Milei said what a minister of Sánchez said?” In his opinion, it is “regrettable” that relations with a country like Argentina are tense and he has considered that “Spain is at another level.”
Likewise, he has expressed that in the democracy that Sánchez defends there is only room for “docility” and “there is no place for accountability, it only admits the surrender of obeisance.” “It has not been enough for him to grant privileges to a few,” he said in reference to the Amnesty law, currently being processed by parliament, “but now he wants to curtail the rights of everyone.”
The controversy surrounding the Argentine president is part, according to the popular ones, of the way that the socialists campaign, because what they seek is to "break, divide, fractionate and subtract the vote that is against Sanchismo."
