Argentine President Trashes Spanish PM’s Wife in Diplomatic Fiasco

The government of Spain has recalled its ambassador in Buenos Aires after Argentine President Javier Milei publicly lambasted the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

Speaking to a crowd at a right-wing rally in Madrid this weekend, the right-wing president took aim at Spain’s first lady, Begona Gomez, who has been at the center of a messy corruption scandal involving alleged influence peddling.

“The global elites don’t realize how destructive it can be to implement the ideas of socialism,” Milei said on Sunday. “Even if you have a corrupt wife, let’s say, it gets dirty, and you take five days to think about it,” he added, referring to the five-day break the socialist Spanish prime minister took from his duties in the aftermath of the scandal.

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