Argentinian President Javier Milei is reportedly facing calls for his impeachment after a controversial speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos as he has been accused of abandoning his position of defending sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
Critics of the South American leader have suggested that his alignment with the new president of the United States, Donald Trump, as well as NATO, means abandoning this country’s historic claim to sovereignty of the British territory (known in Argentina as Las Malvinas).
In an interview with PERFIL, constitutional lawyer, Eduardo Barcesat said: “The presentation of the new impeachment denounces the position of the current Argentine government, of praising these threats and attempting to reproduce them in Argentine territory, while showing a strong alignment with the US and NATO, abandoning any position of defense and claim of our territorial sovereignty in the Malvinas Islands , the South Atlantic and Antarctic Sector.”
Mr Barcesat added: “What is at risk here is allying ourselves with the territorial expansionism of the new US president, when he talks about recovering the Panama Canal , that he now wants Greenland , that he wants the natural resources of South America to ‘make America great again’, etc. He throws overboard the claims for sovereignty of the Malvinas.”
Mr Milei has also been accused of threatening essential constitutional rights, such as life and liberty, abandoning the stance of defending sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and discriminating against movements for sexual identity freedom.
Critics have criticised Milei for making threats against “bloody lefties, b******,” adding “we will come after you.”
In a formal presentation, critics added: “Beyond the total lack of semantic balance to express his political opinions, the threat to rights to life, liberty and physical and mental integrity of all people who may feel included in the scope of possible attacks or impacts against people, constitutional order and democratic life is invoked in the presentation.
“These are carefully guarded in our constitutional and penal system.”
Mr Barcesat said: “It is incompatible with our system, it goes against the historical text of the 1853 Constitution regarding views and tolerance.
“It is not compatible with someone who claims to be Alberdian,” he added, referring to how the head of state always referenced the first Constitution by Alberdi.