President Javier Milei has triggered outrage after saying during a television interview that he would like to “put the final nail in the coffin of Kirchnerism, with Cristina inside.” Members of the opposition condemned the remark as “unworthy of a president.”

During an hour-long interview with TN TV channel on Sunday, interviewer Franco Mercuriali asked the president whether he saw Buenos Aires Province Governor Axel Kicillof as a possible opposition candidate, in the context of fierce Peronist infighting.

“It’s not my problem, it’s the opposition’s problem,” he said. “Now, there’s also an element of morbid curiosity, and the fact that I’d love to put the final nail in the coffin of Kirchnerism, with Cristina inside.”

The broadcast cuts straight to a studio interlude after Milei’s comment, so it is unknown what the president said immediately after the coffin statement.

“So now you want to kill me, too?” responded Cristina Kirchner, the former two-term president and vice president, in a long X post. “You’re........

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