The president had to be evacuated by security personnel when a group of protesters began throwing stones and other objects, during a tour uploaded to a vehicle in the middle of the electoral campaign in the province of Buenos Aires. The Argentine Executive said that there were no injuries and blamed for the incidents of Kirchnerism, the main force of opposition to the ultra government. Both sectors will face next Sunday, September 6 in the legislative elections of the province.
Milei participated this Wednesday afternoon of a proselytizing caravan in the Lomas de Zamora party, on the outskirts of the city of Buenos Aires. The Argentine president was uploaded in the back discovered of a truck and, with his right arm, greeted the public that crowded the street. Next to him, there were his sister, and the candidate who heads the official list for the legislative elections, José Luis Espert.
Suddenly, stones and other objects began to fly on the president of the president. In the midst of the confusion generated, between screams and insults, his custodians quickly surrounded him with shields. They lowered him from the truck and took him out of the scene aboard a armored car. The rescue included his sister, but not Espert. The candidate went on his own, on a motorcycle. While the evacuation occurred, some clashes between protesters and police officers were recorded.
“We had traveled several blocks in peace, with joy, with a lot of euphoria and at some point they fell stones very close to the president,” he said later to the local press. “One of the girls who is photographing a stone near the waist,” he added. The situation, he added, “became very violent and for a security issue we decided to terminate the fact.”
The spokesman of the Casa Rosada, Manuel Adorni, reported that no person was injured and held responsible for the aggression A, the “militants of the old policy, Kirchnerism in its purest form and a model of violence that only the cavernícles of the past want. “
The incidents occurred in the final stretch of the campaign towards the provincial legislative elections almost two months of the nationals. These are key elections for the administration of Milei, which governs with a minority in Congress and aspires to improve its parliamentary representation, while suffering a situation of corruption.
