Javier Milei has been attacked in one of his electoral events in Buenos Aires. The Argentine president has been evacuated on Wednesday after some opposition protesters threw objects against the bare truck in which he was traveling. This situation resulted in clashes between some of the concentrates and police officers.
Due to the incidents, the president was immediately evacuated by his custody with his sister and general secretary of the Presidency, Karina Milei. For his part, the main official candidate for the legislative elections in the province, José Luis Espert, left the scene on a motorcycle.
The episodes took place during a campaign act in the Buenos Aires town of Lomas de Zamora, where Milei met a large group of opposition protesters that He threw stones, branches and eggsamong other objects. Police personnel protected the president with shields before evacuating him in a armored vehicle.
After the evacuation of the president, it has been triggered A confrontation between supporters of both sidesthat it resulted, according to the local press, with at least three injured and two detainees. Back in the presidential residence of the town of Olivos, Milei has published a photo with his sister Karina already Expert Together with a brief message in which he explains that “in Olivos with ‘The teacher’ José Luis Espert and ‘The boss’ Karina Milei after the passage through Lomas de Zamora, where the Kukas (Kirchnerists) throw stones lacking ideas, They resorted to violence again“.
Despite the characterization of Milei of the protesters as Kirchnerists, the protest against him has included representatives of different sectors and organizations, as well as self -consisting citizens.
Also, in his message, the president has also taken the opportunity to ask for the vote in the legislative elections of September 7 in the province of Buenos Aires and in the National Parliamentary election of October 26.
For its part, La Libertad advancesthe president’s party described the electoral act of Lomas de Zamora as “A peaceful caravan”in which “a group of protesters and militants identified with Kirchnerism took the opportunity to insult and try to assault those who expressed themselves in favor of ending an impoverishing model.”
In a statement, the party stressed that “cowardice and dototerism are part of the actions of a model that is cornered; but that, however, You cannot stop the force of millions of Argentines who chose a historical change and today accompany President Javier Milei in the construction of a free Argentina, who lowered poverty and inflation. “
For its part, the presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni He has affirmed in his account of the social network X (formerly Twitter) that the episode is “the most faithful sample of the end of Kirchnerism” and referred to opposition protesters as “militants of the old policy, Kirchnerism in its purest state and a model of violence that only the cave.
Argentine Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichhas also been expressed in networks to repudiate aggression. “Kirchnerism organized an attack on the president in Lomas de Zamora, putting people at risk and families to accompany him,” he said. “These guys, to recover some power, sow violence and chaos. Kirchnerism never again,” he concluded.
