The photo of Emmanuel Macron posing with a gift from Javier Miley did not go down well with the left.

Javier Miley gets to know his international colleagues in his own way. Argentina’s new president, just elected in November, gave Emmanuel Macron a unique gift this week: a signed T-shirt from Boca Juniors, the club in the capital of which the flamboyant polemicist is an ardent supporter.

True to his casual language and punchy slogans, the one dubbed “Trump of the Pampas” signed his French counterpart’s T-shirt with the following message: “Long live freedom, damn it!” »

If the President of the Republic did not hesitate, he posed with a thumbs up and a T-shirt, much to the delight of Javier Miley, who thanked him and posted the photo for publication.

The publication of this photo occurred two days before the inauguration ceremony of the new President of Argentina, scheduled for Sunday, December 10. A ceremony in which Emmanuel Macron will not be present, as will Bruno Le Maire and Elisabeth Born, who did not want to go to South America. For now, Paris has provided a minimal service by sending its ambassador to Buenos Aires, Romain Nadal.

A publication that will shock some of the left

After his Argentine counterpart’s election, Emmanuel Macron congratulated him on his victory and then emphasized “the friendship based on common values ​​that binds the French and Argentine peoples,” the Elysee Palace said at the time.

However, the photo did not fail to spark reactions on social media. The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, accuses the head of state of being “a propaganda agent of the ultra-liberal populist Javier Miley.”

For his part, LFI MP for Seine-Saint-Denis Thomas Portes accuses him of being a “stepping stone” for the far right, recalling that he has no words for the Argentine rugby player Federico Martin Aramburu, who was killed by far-right activists. in March 2022 in Paris.