2024-02-12 16:34:29
Just four days into his tour of Israelwhere he participated in different activities related to Judaism, and after two months of management with multiple nods to that religion, President Javier Milei surprised with a statement that seemed to seek to align himself with his visit to the Pope in the Vatican.
His statements today were at least striking, given that during his visit to Israel he even overreacted his closeness to the most retrograde in religious terms. After his private audience with Francisco, the president gave a television interview and stated: “I am Catholic and I also practice a little Judaism”.
The chameleonic phrase was said after his visit to Pope Francis, with whom he met after an apology for the multiple insults he directed at him before becoming president. “I reconsidered some positions and, from that moment, we began to build a positive bond”Milei said in an interview with the local channel TV Retequattro, in which he qualified Pwhat as “the most important person in all of Argentina.”
In dialogue with the Italian TV channel, the far-right said that Francis, as “leader of Catholics in the world”, It represents a very important institution “especially in a country like Argentina, which has many Catholic roots.”
The praise given to the highest authority of the Catholic Church did not seem to be enough to end his friendship with the institution, and he launched, just 4 days into his tour of Israel, where he promised to move the Argentine embassy to Jerusalem: “I am Catholic and I also practice a little Judaism.”
He also wanted to gain some sympathy by talking about his Italian origins, his love for Italian opera and the city of Rome. “I am 75% Italian, because both of my father’s parents were Italian and on my mother’s side they were of Italian and Yugoslavian origin. It seems to be quite attractive, because I have an incredible passion for Italian opera. Whenever I could, for work reasons in the private sector, take a trip to Europe, I did it with Alitalia (now ITA Airways) because I could stop in Rome,” said the Argentine on Italian soil.