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People voted for the President and already knew what Javier Milei was like”: Franco's response to the president's use of social networks - Infobae


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February 09, 2024

The Minister of the Interior spoke about the recent messages from the head of state against “caste” and those who question his Government. “They already knew him as a candidate,” he stated.



Guillermo Francos spoke about Javier Milei's use of his social networks
Javier Milei was always an active user of social networks, even before entering the world of politics. And that imprint did not abandon her with his arrival at the Casa Rosada. What's more, he intensified his content and often uses his accounts to target his political adversaries and against the “caste” that he, as he repeats, comes to fight as President.

In the last few hours, in the middle of his tour of Israel and Italy, and after the Omnibus Law was stopped in Congress, the President published several controversial messages: one in Hebrew with a biblical passage that refers to the punishment that Moses gave to who tried to challenge him and another in which, characterized as Terminator, he targets deputies, governors and union members.

The Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos , the key man of the ruling party in the negotiation with the governors, was consulted today about this facet of the president , in difficult moments in the link between the Casa Rosada and the provinces.

“People voted for President Milei and knew what Javier Milei was like as a candidate, what he expressed, and what his struggles were, what he questioned about politics, etc. “People voted for him,” Francos explained in an attempt to remove controversy from the issue.

However, he tried to justify Milei's latest messages on his social networks in which, with interactions or his own posts, he directly targeted the governors and deputies of the "dialogue" blocs.

“These things also arise from a very particular circumstance that none of us expected. I don't know whether to call it treason, as they said a lot, but we did expect, after all the negotiations, after all that we withdrew from the law, we did not expect to have this result ,” Francos said during an interview with Jorge Lanata on Radio Miter.

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Milei arrived in Rome today from Jerusalem , where, among other activities, he was with Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu, visited the Holocaust Museum and toured one of the kibbutzim that was attacked by the Hamas terrorist group on October 7. With no official agenda until Sunday, the president will participate that day in the canonization ceremony of Mama Antula and the next day he will be received by Pope Francis in a private audience.

Yesterday, while he was in Jerusalem, and like practically every day, the president was intensely active on social networks, both on X and on Instagram, although two posts caught attention. In one, he posted a fragment in Hebrew of the Exodus, from the Old Testament of the Bible. They were verses that describe how Moses ordered punishment to those who defied him while he was on Mount Sinai writing the Tables with the 10 commandments.

More direct was the post he made on Instagram, using an illustration by cartoonist Nik in which, characterized as the Terminator, he points directly to “caste.”

“Caste in sight, baby ,” is the phrase that Nik used in his post, to which the president later added to publish it on his account on that social network. “Belliboni, detected; Unionist, detected; governor, detected; deputy, detected.” “ The caste trembles. Freedom advances. Long live damn freedom ,” the president wrote next to his post on Instagram.

These Milei publications occurred in the midst of the controversy over the halt to the Omnibus Law and the accusations of “traitors” that La Libertad Avanza made after the failed session on Tuesday against the “dialogue” deputies who did not accompany some of the articles. of the project, which was approved in general last week.

After the fall of the Bases Law, the Government eliminated the subsidy fund that it sent to the provinces for transportation, which caused widespread rejection from the governors.

In this regard, Francos denied that there is a “war” between the Casa Rosada and the provinces. “There is no war with the interior, there is an organization of public resources that corresponds legally. Since the 2017 fiscal pact, it was clear that provincial transportation was a responsibility of the provinces. In the case of interjurisdictional transportation, which is what happens in the AMBA, the Nation still participates in the issue of subsidies with a smaller percentage. In the case of the provinces, it is not the national government that has to take charge of the subsidies,” the minister stated.
 
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