“Deputy Santillán, who spent the holidays in Mar del Plata, had vacations in Dubai, where she traveled with a large group of libertarians,” he tweeted. Silvia Mercado on her X account. The journalist shared along with the message a video of the legislator Juliana Santillan boarding a plane in the middle of an international flight. According to what was reported by the communicator, the libertarian parliamentarian traveled to the Asian continent between January 6 and 14.
Next, in another post, Mercado added: “I add information that a high source gave me. This group of libertarian deputies led by Santillán traveled to China first (apparently they returned economically) between January 6 and 14. How the crack who gave me the information tells me: ‘Milei aligns himself with Trump and they are going to hell with the Chinese money.'”
In a third tweet, the writer of “The Peronist story, because the only truth is not reality” informed who was responsible for paying the expenses of the flight to international skies. “More information for this newsletter. The trip was paid for by the presidency of the Chamber. With travel expenses included,” he noted with spicy humor. On its social networks, Pagina/12 confirmed that Emirates was the exclusive airline used for the deputy’s flight.
In August of last year, the journalistic portal ANDigital released official data, corresponding to the period 2024-2025, in which the legislator “with a diploma in Austrian economics” made 95 trips financed with public funds. Meanwhile, he only attended 14 sessions in the entire legislative year, according to lower house statistics at the time.
“The disparity between parliamentary activity and travel expenses is overwhelming. In a country where millions of Argentines adjust their pockets to make ends meet, it is unacceptable that resources of such magnitude are allocated to trips that do not translate into an active and constant presence in Congress,” the En Cumplimiento del Duty Foundation pointed out to the digital medium.
In the same tone, the entity chaired by Claudio Venchiarutti, He maintained that “the promises to ‘reduce political spending’ seem to fade in the face of this type of case. Citizens deserve representatives committed to legislative work and to the example of responsibility demanded by the difficult economic moment that the Nation is going through.”
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