Cristina Fernández accuses Milei of lying and asserts that her government does issue money to pay interest.

Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has accused Argentine President Javier Milei of lying in his televised speech this Friday, in which he announced measures to strengthen fiscal balance and asserted that his administration was not seeking financing from the country's Central Bank through monetary issuance.

"Stop lying with that old story that your government doesn't issue money . You're issuing it left and right to pay the interest on the financial scam," the former president said in a message from her account on the social network X.

The Argentine president announced that he will prohibit the National Treasury from financing part of public spending with currency issuance and will establish penalties for "the approval of national budgets that incur a fiscal deficit," thus seeking to safeguard fiscal balance.

These measures were announced after Mieli vetoed the pension increase and the disability law —passed by the Argentine Congress. "It seems like a noble intention, but when there's no money, it's nothing more than a demagogic trick on the part of the politicians, who treat citizens like idiots," he stated in his speech on Friday.

"Rather than putting your feet forward, they're going to throw you out of the Casa Rosada wearing a straitjacket," Fernández de Kirchner maintained, referring to Milei's words in which she assured him that she would not back down on her policies.