Former Argentine president Alberto Fernández criticizes Milei's reaction to Óscar Puente's statements

MADRID, 5 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former Argentine president Alberto Fernández has criticized the reaction of his successor, Javier Milei, to the statements of the Minister of Transport of Spain, Óscar Puente, understanding that they are based on "a shameful smear campaign" against the president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchez.

After Puente accused the Argentine president of ingesting "substances", Milei denounced his "slanders and insults" and assured that "the Government of Pedro Sánchez has more important problems to deal with, such as the accusations of corruption that fall on his wife ".

Former President Fernández, in his account on the social network defamation to the detriment of (President) Sánchez and his family."

Fernández considers that this campaign has been launched "by the Spanish right" and has had "the collaboration of certain media outlets and the complicity of that country's justice system."

The former president has finally used humor to frame Milei's reaction to Puente's comments, with a quote from the poet Antonio Machado.

"The Argentine president may have been upset, but let me remind him that he has no reason to be so offended. After all, as a Spanish poet said, 'The truth is never sad... what it has no remedy'," Fernández concluded.