A PRO deputy proposed eliminating the vice president: "It only serves to conspire."

In the context of the ruptured relationship between Javier Milei and Victoria Villarruel, and when tensions intensified in recent days following the Senate session in which bills were approved that the Casa Rosada maintains attack the fiscal surplus, PRO deputy Alejandro Finocchiaro proposed this Monday eliminating the position of vice president: "It only serves to conspire."

"What needs to be done in Argentina—of course, constitutional reform is needed—is to eliminate the vice president, who serves no purpose except to conspire ," Finnochiaro said during the program "La Ves," broadcast on Todo Noticias.

Finocchiaro then asked, "What purpose does the vice president serve?" and questioned the importance of his role, stating that it was created "at a time when the President could fall ill or go on a trip."

"He was going on a trip to Tucumán," he gave as an example, stating that for that reason "they had to have a vice president because decisions couldn't be made ." "Today the president is in Japan and has something called a token with which he can sign, he can make decisions," he added.

However, when asked about Gabriela Michetti, who held the position during Mauricio Macri's administration, the congressman chose to defend her, stating that "she was the only vice president who didn't have any problems with the presidency."

"Martínez had them with Alfonsín, Duhalde had them with Menem, Ruckauf had them with Menem, Chacho [Álvarez] is not to mention... Ruckauf was stopped being invited to the Cabinet at some point, for example," the deputy listed.

Later, he raised the hypothetical scenario of a vice president wanting to "issue a decree that the president doesn't want." "Do you think that goes through the chief of staff or that the secretary of legal and technical affairs doesn't pick up the phone?" he asked, and then concluded: "It's useless."

The relationship between Javier Milei and Victoria Villarruel has been broken for several months now. A little over a year after the July 9th, 2024 celebration, when the two rode down Avenida del Libertador together atop an army tank, this year's picture is diametrically opposite. At the Te Deum held on May 25th, the President avoided greeting his vice president. On July 9th, the trip to the event in Tucumán was also canceled, citing fog. Villarruel, for his part, attended and shared a suggestive post on social media .

The relationship reached a new juncture on Thursday, when the vice president presided over the Senate session, a quorum achieved by the opposition's self-convening. Within that framework, sensitive issues for the government were discussed, such as the disability emergency, the new pension moratorium, and the pension increase. Milei's response was immediate: she called her a "traitor." Several Cabinet members joined the president at a meeting of the 10th Cabinet, where they strongly questioned the vice president.

Villarruel, for his part, responded indirectly through replies to messages left by users on his X account. In one of them, he fired back: "If there is balance then assisting the most vulnerable shouldn't be so terrible. The issue is that a retiree can't wait, and a disabled person even less so. Let him save on travel and on the SIDE and that's it ."

The fight reached a new round on Sunday, when the President shared several messages against Villarruel. One of them came from Santiago Oría, the filmmaker who follows Milei around, always with a camera or cell phone in hand to capture her every move. In a post, he wrote: "In addition to being a traitor, she is a DEMAGOGUE and BRUTAL in economic terms." To his message, Oría had added a description of how much the SIDE (National Secretariat of Interior) spends and how much he spends on presidential trips, concluding that the combined amount of both would not cover the expenses that will be generated if the laws approved last Thursday go into effect.

It wasn't the only post the President shared. He also shared one by Agustín Etchebarne, director of the Freedom and Progress Foundation. "Villarruel not only betrays Milei, he also embraces the worst kind of populism: he promises money that isn't there and attacks fiscal balance ," Etchebarne had stated. "That's what those who want easy applause say, not to transform a bankrupt country. She was consumed by her ambition to be president, just like Larreta ," he added.