Emmanuel Macron received a Boca Juniors jersey from the new Argentine president Javier Milei.
The gift from one president to another, so far, nothing very exciting or shocking. Whether it is a football jersey – that of Boca Juniors, a club from Buenos Aires, in this case – again, there is no real cause for controversy. However, the present in question, intended for Emmanuel Macron, comes from a character who is controversial to say the least: the new Argentine leader Javier Milei.
Far-right stamped, nicknamed the “Trump of the Pampas”, Javier Milei was elected last month at the head of a country ravaged by the economic crisis and inflation. His football jersey given to the President of the French Republic, the person dedicated it as follows: “ Long live freedom damn it! » A funny gift well received by Emmanuel Macron – thumbs-up photo to support it.
President @EmmanuelMacron Many thanks for your photo with the Boca Juniors shirt with my phrase VIVA LA LIBERTAD CARAJO…!!! pic.twitter.com/p0oxlxYrb7
— Javier Milei (@JMilei) December 8, 2023
This famous photo, undoubtedly of a private nature, Javier Milei did not fail to publish it on social networks to flatter his ego. A hardly insignificant gesture which does not fail to cause controversy. For the first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure, the French head of state thus becomes “ the publicity agent of the ultraliberal populist Javier Milei “.
The LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Thomas Portes denounces the “ stepstone of the far right » what would Emmanuel Macron be. Same indignation among his colleague from the Insoumis Rodrigo Arenas, who sees in the resident of the Elysée “ support from Milei who wants to privatize common goods, the sale of human organs, deliberately racist, misogynist and homophobic, climate skeptic activist “.
