Former president of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner responded on Monday to the threats issued by current president Javier Milei. One day previously, Milei said that he “would like to put the final nail in the coffin of Kirchnerism, with Cristina inside.”
Milei made his statement on Sunday, during an interview with a local media outlet, after being asked about the internal elections of the opposition Justicialist Party, which will be held on November 17.
“So now you want to kill me too?” wrote Fernández on social media. “You are nervous and aggressive because all the stupid things you said on TV for years and still keep repeating are just that: stupid things. And since you don’t have the slightest idea of what state management is, you ended up asking Macri for help.”
In addition, Fernández questioned the decisions that Milei has made during his administration. Many of these decisions have been detrimental to the well-being of the Argentinian people.
“It would be good if, instead of insulting me left and right and threatening me with death, you found a way for Argentinians to be able to eat four times a day again and at home, for their children to grow up healthy so they can study and progress, and for the elderly to have their medicines so they can live,” the former head of state wrote.
Fernández reminded Milei that the country had already lived through a time when “the death of the adversary was the solution,” urging him to stop threatening and learn to manage the state, because “even if they kill me and not even ashes remain of me… your government is a failure, and you, as president, are an embarrassment.”
“I hold you and the media responsible for enabling discourses of unlimited violence (which ultimately ended with an attempted gunshot to my head), not only for what happens to me, but to other Peronists, members of other opposition political forces, and free organizations of the people,” Fernández wrote.
¿Así que ahora también me querés matar?
Estás nervioso y agresivo porque todas las idioteces que, durante años, dijiste en la tele y todavía seguís repitiendo son solo eso: idioteces. Y como no tenés las más pálida idea de lo que es la gestión del Estado terminaste pidiéndole… pic.twitter.com/sc7rrloPrG
— Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) October 21, 2024
Repudiation of Milei’s threat
Milei’s statements were widely repudiated for encouraging further acts of violence against Fernández.
Senator Eduardo de Pedro spoke out after the president’s threat, saying that “he is not only doing it to express his fantasy of an Argentina without Peronism but also to divert attention and hide the failure of his economic model.”
Con declaraciones como esta, repudiables y perversas, el presidente @JMilei sigue incentivando la violencia contra @CFKArgentina.
No sólo lo hace para expresar su fantasía de una Argentina sin peronismo, sino también para desviar la atención y esconder el fracaso de su modelo… pic.twitter.com/ZUFafRMHjk
— Wado de Pedro 🇦🇷 (@wadodecorrido) October 21, 2024
For her part, Minister of Women, Gender Policies, and Sexual Diversity Estela Díaz described Milei’s statements as “extremely troublesome,” reported Página 12 .
Díaz said that the words of the head of state are an example of a “lack of attachment to democracy” and noted that Milei encourages violence in an extreme way.
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