Margaret Thatcher ‘a great leader’, Argentine candidate declares
Javier Milei, who wants to be the next president, says former PM ‘crushed the left’
Javier Milel said that Margaret Thatcher had a “significant role” in the fall of the Berlin Wall
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Margaret Thatcher was one of the great leaders of humanity, a candidate to become Argentinian president has said.
The libertarian free-marketeer Javier Milei was asked by his opponent in a TV debate “to state clearly: is Margaret Thatcher your role model?”
Milei, 53, said he regarded Thatcher as one of humanity’s “great leaders” and added that the late prime minister “had a significant role in the fall of the Berlin Wall, which seems to bother you … and that she crushed the left”.
His opponent, Sergio Massa, the economic minister in the current left-wing government, responded that because of the 1982 Falklands war, “Thatcher is an enemy of Argentina yesterday, today and always”.
Milei has said that he believes the future of the islands should
