Despite the breakup, the Radial Civic Union (UCR) joined this Wednesday to repudiate the sayings of Javier Milei against Raul Alfonsinwhere he accused him of being a “supporter of a coup” against Fernando De La Rúa in 2001.
In a release signed by the National Committee of the UCR, national legislative blocks, the Forum of Mayors and party organizations, radicalism came together again to harshly criticize the president’s statements.
“It is not only an unjustified insult to his memory, it is an affront to the Argentine people“, they stated and asked that he cease “his grievances against who was the true leader of the Argentine democratic process.”
Milei This Wednesday he launched a strong accusation against Raúl Alfonsín on the 47th anniversary of the Mediterranean Foundation. “Following the fall of convertibility and the coup d’état promoted by (Eduardo) Duhalde and (Raúl) Alfonsín, which paradoxically shows Alfonsín as the father of democracy, even though he was a supporter of a coup d’état“He shot without hesitation.
“It was Raúl Alfonsín who truly received the worst inheritance that an Argentine president had to face upon taking office, and he did it without ever attacking an adversary, without ever limiting freedoms and with the commitment to strengthen democracy, a system that allowed Javier Milei to be elected deputy first and president later,” says the UCR statement in defense of Alfonsín.
The main leaders of the UCR united in defense of Alfonsín
The attack on Javier Milei on Raúl Alfonsín He achieved what seemed impossible these days: uniting all radical currents.
The president of the UCR and senator, Martín Lousteau said: “It should not draw attention to The President with the least democratic commitment in our recent history criticizes the person who refounded Argentine democracy“, he wrote on his X account, along with the fragment of the video in question.
The president of the radical bloc closest to the Government, Rodrigo De Loredorepudiated “the statement that the president has just made @JMilei about Raúl Alfonsín recently in Fundación Mediterránea. Even more so on a date so dear to all Argentines. Absolutely crazy.”
For his part, the senator Pablo Blanco stated that Milei “tries to distort history by accusing Alfonsín of having promoted a coup d’état.” “Raúl Alfonsín was a pillar of democracy and a defender of human rights. Let’s not allow lies to overshadow his legacy,” he said..
Finally the deputy Pablo Juliano (block holder Democracy foreverof radical opponents of the Government), published on his X account: “President Javier Milei, you are not tall enough to talk about Alfonsínexcept to invent from a lectern that promoted a coup d’état, his commitment to democracy was absolute. Something that you can’t show for even a single minute.”
Ricardo Alfonsín on Milei’s statements against his father: “It’s not even worth responding, it’s not credible”
The former ambassador to Spain Ricardo Alfonsín referred to Javier Milei’s statements against his deceased father, maintaining that “it is not even worth responding to him” because “it is neither serious nor credible.”
On his social networks, he assured: “The barbarities that the President of (Patricia) Bullrich, of (Luis) Caputo, of former president (Mauricio) Macri (and others) said. barbarities that I do not want to repeat. Now he says the opposite about them.” And he added: “It’s not serious. It’s not credible.”he stressed.
Source: Ambito
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