President Javier Milei rejected on Wednesday that the recent measures promoted by his Government regarding the Falkland Islands respond to an electoral strategy and assured that the Executive has been working on the issue for three years. He also explained that the statements made by Donald Trump about a possible review of the U.S. position acted as a “trigger” to accelerate the announcements.
“Political analysts say we are pushing for the Falklands for image and political opportunism. It is a huge stupidity,” Milei stated during an interview with Malena de los Ríos on the streaming channel Neura, referring to the interpretations of the national broadcast on September 3.
The president maintained that the decision to deliver that message had been made during a Cabinet meeting the previous Monday and linked the timing chosen as a coincidence with the favorable statements made days earlier by Trump. The U.S. president had indicated that his administration could review Washington's position regarding the sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom.
“The broadcast was triggered by Donald Trump's comment about reviewing the position on the Falklands. All exogenous facts,” he explained. The President insisted that the policy towards the archipelago did not arise from an electoral need, but from a strategy developed during his administration. “You have to be very stupid, very foolish, if you think this is an electoral maneuver when it is something we have been nurturing for three years,” he expressed.
