Following Messi's lead, Milei bids to separate stadium and state
Looming over the World Cup final is another rivalry: the bitter feud between Argentine President Javier Milei and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. For the past two years, Argentina's libertarian-populist leader has been embroiled in a war of words with his progressive counterpart in Madrid.
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Looming over the World Cup final is another rivalry: the bitter feud between Argentine President Javier Milei and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. For the past two years, Argentina's libertarian-populist leader has been embroiled in a war of words with his progressive counterpart in Madrid. Milei has resented Sánchez's efforts to cast him as a far-right firebrand, and responded by repeatedly insulting the Spanish premier and his wife, Begoña Gómez, whom he has repeatedly called "corrupt." In Buenos Aires, one leading political observer doesn't expect the president to mix the World Cup final with his personal animus toward Sánchez. "I can't imagine him trying to turn this match into a political issue," Martín Rodríguez Yebra, deputy managing editor of Argentina’s leading conservative newspaper La Nación, told POLITICO.
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- Looming over the World Cup final is another rivalry: the bitter feud between Argentine President Javier Milei and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. For the past two years, Argentina's libertarian-populist leader has been embroiled in a war of words with his progressive counterpart in Madrid.
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