Argentine President Javier Milei ignored, on Sunday (25), the mayor of Buenos Aires, Jorge Macri, and his own deputy, Victoria Villarruel, before a Mass to commemorate the May Revolution, which began the country’s independence process.
Upon arriving at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires, he greeted those present, but passed straight by the hand, which had his hand extended waiting for the fulfillment. Alongside Macri was Villarruel, who was not greeted by the Argentine president either.
See the moment when Milei ignores the mayor and the vice:
Milei was accompanied by her ministers and the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Ignacio García Cuber, who greeted the deputy.
The accusation of Mayor Portene, cousin of former President Mauricio Macri, to act against the alliance between his political forces for this year’s legislative elections.
On his social network, Milei wrote, on the episode, that “Rome does not pay traitors,” an expression that would have emerged in ancient Rome to express that betrayal should not be rewarded.
“By being good with the evil (this is with those who betray, lies, do slander, injury and spot [os demais] For a mere advantage), it turns out to be very evil with the good, ”wrote Milei on social network X.
As for Villarruel, there is a great time ago of a major distance between the two. The president has already made public criticism of his deputy, stating that many of his statements are not aligned with the vision of his voters.
One of Milei’s questions was that Villarruel defended the increase in salaries of legislators, when the executive had opposed readjustments amid his battle for reaching fiscal surplus.
According to the Argentine press, there was also malaise for her, who is also president of the Senate, to have qualified, early last year, a legislative session that could facilitate the veto of a Milei decree to deregulate various sectors of the economy.
Asked by journalists after the ceremony about whether the lack of compliance was serious, Milei’s deputy replied: “You need to ask him. I always fulfilled,” he said
