Javier Milei
spoke about public spending and cited a book by Milton Friedman in a press conference he gave this Tuesday at
Expoagro
, together with deputy José Luis Espert.
Then, the President made
a revelation
as he passed by.
He said that the "previous management" who stayed at
Quinta de Olivos
"had lunch and dinner
with Cristal champagne every day
."
The President's phrase, as if in passing, went viral on the networks and at night,
Alberto Fernández came out to deny it
for X. Milei did not mention it but his allusion was clear.
"You can count the quality of the food," the President introduced and laughed knowingly with Espert.
Then, he concluded verbatim: "
In the previous administration
where
I am living,
we
had lunch and dinner with Cristal
champagne
every day."
Cristal is a very high-end sparkling wine and one of the most expensive on the market.
A bottle
from the exclusive Louis Roederer winery can be found in Argentina for
between one or two million pesos
.
To the surprise of his audience, Milei chose to finish with irony.
"
If you come to the Quinta, I'm not going to receive you like that
. The only exotic thing I'm going to offer you is that I can share the Keter that I drink for Shabbat, nothing more," he mocked and explained: "Keter is
a grape juice
that It is taken on Shabbat (the holiday for those who profess Judaism) for those who do not drink alcohol.
Seconds before,
Milei had exposed another expense
that could be considered a luxury and that he attributed, without naming it, to Fernández, his predecessor in the presidential residence.
"The other is to spend other people's money on one. And well... there they eat in the most expensive restaurant. Or for example,
they spend one palo verde per month
going
everywhere by
helicopter
, which I don't use" , he said and gave it as an example of "
one of the many savings
" he applied when settling in Olivos.
"This is a
lie
. I hope that
whoever said it denies it
immediately," tweeted Alberto Fernández and called the news fake news.
The author of the phrase was also not mentioned: it was Milei.
Fernández had not spoken this Tuesday about the judicial development against him:
another accusation of fraudulent administration was added to the accusation of misappropriation of public funds in the insurance scandal revealed by
Clarín .
News in development.
D.S.