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The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, yesterday accused the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, who is due to travel to Spain in a couple of weeks to take part in a Vox event, of ingesting “substances”.

Yesterday, during his participation in a round table at the 3rd School of Government organised by the PSOE, Puente criticised an intervention by the Argentinean president before the elections held in the South American country, which gave him the victory.

The Transport Minister said: “There are some very bad people who, being themselves, have reached the top”. And he pointed out. “Milei, for example, Trump? I don’t know if they have advisors. I certainly don’t know if Milei, if he has advisors, I don’t think he listens very much”.

Then he said: “I’ve seen Milei, on TV, and as I was listening to him, do you remember? About… When he came out, I don’t know in what state and prior to the ingestion or after the ingestion of what substances, but he came out to say what he said, what he said, a few days before…. I said: ‘It’s impossible for him to win the elections. He has dug his grave. Well, he hasn’t.

In the coming weeks, the Argentinian leader plans to make two trips to Spain, neither of them of an official nature, so it is not certain that he will have any meetings with members of the government.

Specifically, he will attend the EuropaVIVA24 Festival, organised by Santiago Abascal at the Vistalegre Palace in Madrid, on the 18th and 19th of this month. Subsequently, on 21 June, he will return to Spain to receive the 2024 Award from the Juan de Mariana Institute, together with other leading figures from different fields, such as the economist Jesús Huerta de Soto and the writer Mario Vargas Llosa.