Who is Lali, the Argentinian president’s “pet peeve” pop star?

This Friday, February 23, “That Says What” presents you with an Argentinian star, target of repeated attacks from conservative President Javier Milei. Also in this episode, the results of storm Louis which left one dead in France, and the expulsion of an imam to Tunisia.

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This Friday, February 23, and since the presidential election last December in Argentina, the singer Lali is one of the favorite targets of the new ultra-liberal president Javier Milei. Young, feminist and LGBT icon, she is his exact opposite and regularly takes a stand during her concerts against his conservative politics.

Lali had called for voting against Javier Milei during the presidential election last December. The new president has since criticized him for benefiting from state subsidies. “Are you ready to finance this culture, even if it means depriving poor children of food?” he asked on TV.

“I have been working since the age of 10 and got by without help,” replied the singer on the social network X, who began her career as a telenovela actress. “I want to have the freedom not to think like you.

In recent days, the Argentinian music scene has sided with the singer. Reggaeton star Maria Becerra denounces attacks by Javier Milei to “silence” Lali, which reminds her of the “dark” period of the military dictatorship at the end of the 70s.

An expelled imam and the storm Louis

Also in this episode, the imam of Bagnols-sur-Cèze, accused of having made anti-France remarks in one of his sermons, was deported to Tunisia on Thursday evening. He had been in the sights of the French authorities for several weeks for a “retrograde and violent conception of Islam”, according to the Ministry of the Interior.

And then storm Louis left one dead in France. Up to 90,000 homes were left without power on Thursday. None of the 28 departments concerned are on orange alert due to strong winds this Friday morning.

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