The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, recognized this Tuesday his “mistake” in not being aware of the impact that his words could have on the Argentine president, Javier Milei, and has assured that, if it had been, he would not have would have pronounced.
“If I had had the slightest notion, and this is perhaps my big mistake, that it was going to have the dissemination and impact that it has had, I would not have said what I said,” the minister said after the meeting of the Council of Ministers at be asked if he regrets his statements, in which he attributed the consumption of “substances” to Milei.
Puente has considered the matter settled and has referred to the statement released by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Argentine Government itself, which considers the incident over, before asking to “change the situation” because the story “is now over.” ”.
He recalled that his words about Milei were said at the University of Salamanca, before a small audience and in a half-hour speech in which – he recalled – he also praised the Argentine president from the point of view of political communication.
Puente has considered, in any case, that there has been “overreaction” with this issue and has trusted that beyond the “vicissitudes” that relations between the governments of Argentina and Spain are going through, both countries will continue to have a positive collaboration. and good.
Almost in parallel, the second vice president of the Government and general coordinator of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, commented in an interview in La Sexta that “in these times” when, according to her, “the right makes conflict, chaos, its only way to do politics”, progressives, “more than ever”, have to “be exemplary and respect the institutions”. Díaz answered in the first person plural: “We have a fundamental duty, which is to respect the Constitution and respect the institutions, and of course fundamental principles such as freedom of expression.”
