{"id":102227,"date":"2025-08-28T02:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102227\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:27:07","slug":"argentinian-president-javier-milei-leaves-rally-after-protesters-throw-rocks-protests-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102227\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentinian President Javier Milei leaves rally after protesters throw rocks | Protests News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Milei government is weathering a bribery scandal as a pair of important elections approach in September and October.<\/p>\n

Published On 28 Aug 202528 Aug 2025<\/p>\n

Argentina\u2019s President Javier Milei has been forced to leave a campaign rally in Lomas de Zamora, a suburb of Buenos Aires, after protesters pelted his vehicle with small rocks, bottles and other objects.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Milei and members of his libertarian party, La Libertad Avanza, held a rally for voters ahead of two key upcoming elections.<\/p>\n

On September 7, the province of Buenos Aires is expected to hold local races. And on October 26, the country faces midterm elections, which will see half of the 257-seat Chamber of Deputies up for grabs, as well as a third of the Senate.<\/p>\n

The elections are seen as major tests for Milei as he reaches the midpoint of his four-year term as president.<\/p>\n

But Milei, whose dark-horse election victory in 2023 upset Argentina\u2019s political establishment, has faced backlash for the dramatic \u201cshock treatment\u201d he has attempted to undertake with the country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

His administration has also been rocked by a bribery scandal involving his sister, Karina Milei.<\/p>\n

As Milei and Karina stood on the bed of an open pick-up truck on Wednesday, waving to supporters and signing autographs, witnesses reported seeing objects flying in their direction as protesters attempted to approach the vehicle.<\/p>\n

Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni shared a picture on the social media platform X, with a circle highlighting what appeared to be a rock thrown in the president\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey could have killed anyone,\u201d Adorni said<\/a> of the protesters. \u201cThey don\u2019t care about human life, and they\u2019ll care even less about the country. The end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video captured the pick-up truck accelerating to escape the crowd. One protester held aloft a mock suitcase with Karina Milei\u2019s face on it and dollar bills sticking out in odd places. Others chanted, \u201cOut with Milei!\u201d<\/p>\n

The news agency AFP reported that one Milei supporter had to be transported by ambulance for medical care after clashes with protesters resulted in rib injuries. But no officials in the Milei pick-up truck were injured.<\/p>\n

Milei himself used the incident to campaign on social media against \u201cKirchnerism\u201d, a left-wing political movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe empty-headed nutters throwing rocks resorted to violence again,\u201d he wrote<\/a> in one post. \u201cOn September 7 and October 26, let\u2019s say at the polls: KIRCHNERISM NEVER AGAIN.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another<\/a>, Milei put the choice more starkly: \u201cCivilisation or barbarity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"OpponentsA demonstrator holds a mock suitcase with fake dollar bills in reference to a corruption scandal involving the president\u2019s sister, Karina Milei [Agustin Marcarian\/Reuters]<\/p>\n

Milei has taken dramatic action to regulate Argentina\u2019s spiralling inflation, but his austerity campaign has included cuts to social safety-net services, widespread government layoffs and sweeping deregulation.<\/p>\n

He famously campaigned with a chainsaw to symbolise his approach to government bureaucracy. But critics warn that his efforts have left Argentina\u2019s poorest citizens more vulnerable<\/a>. While official statistics indicate inflation has dropped<\/a>, unemployment and poverty have risen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The bribery allegations have heightened the backlash against his administration.<\/p>\n

Karina Milei occupies a high-level position in Milei\u2019s government, as a general secretary to the president.<\/p>\n

But audio recordings have captured Diego Spagnuolo, the head of the National Disability Agency and a close ally of Milei, claiming that Karina took a cut from government contracts intended to help those with disabilities.<\/p>\n

Milei has since fired Spagnuolo, and in his public appearances on Wednesday, he repudiated the recordings.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything he says is a lie,\u201d Milei told reporters in Lomas de Zamora. \u201cWe are going to bring him to justice and prove he lied.\u201d<\/p>\n

Milei put on a united front with his sister at Wednesday\u2019s rally, appearing side by side with her in the pick-up truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milei government is weathering a bribery scandal as a pair of important elections approach in September and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12624,893,43,799,44,714,6679,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-102227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-government","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-latin-america","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-protests","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}