Petition signed by 250 international figures cites policies, corruption, and human rights concerns.
On Tuesday, politicians, intellectuals and artists filed a petition with Paris City Hall asking that Argentine President Javier Milei be declared persona non grata. The request comes ahead of the far-right politician’s visit to the French capital, scheduled for late September or early October.
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Published on the Change.ort website, the petition has been signed by 250 French and Latin American figures, including Paris Socialist councilwoman Geneviève Garrigos, actor Nahuel Perez Biscayart, filmmakers Santiago Amigorena and Alberto Marquardt, and lawyer Sophie Thonon, who represents relatives of French nationals who disappeared during Argentina’s dictatorship.
“Paris cannot be the city where the denial, revisionism and invisibility of the crimes of the Argentine dictatorship are tolerated,” French lawmaker Rodrigo Arenas told Agence France Press.
Argentine President Javier Milei, still in Israel, literally dancing and signing for Netanyahu’s amusement:pic.twitter.com/Lt60T0dbAO
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 22, 2026
The following is the full text of the petition submitted to Paris City Hall:
“On Sept. 30, 2026, Argentine President Javier Milei will be in Paris for Argentina Week Paris, an event intended to attract European capital. We ask the Paris City Council to declare the Argentine president persona non grata in our city.
After nearly three years in office, Javier Milei’s radical austerity policy is weighing heavily on Argentine society: declining purchasing power and household consumption, mass layoffs of public employees, a profound transformation of the labor market marked by a decline in formal and protected employment in favor of precarious and impoverished employment — despite the decline in inflation — drastic cuts to public services that have severely affected the functioning of public universities, research, education, culture and hospitals, and a recession affecting companies not linked to raw materials or finance.
Corruption: Several cases have affected the president’s inner circle and senior government officials, including the $LIBRA cryptocurrency scandal in 2025, which directly implicated the head of state. Karina Milei, his sister and secretary of the presidency, has been implicated in a case involving alleged bribes paid by laboratories to the National Disability Agency (ANDIS), to the detriment of people with disabilities.
Fernando Cerimedo — a former digital strategist for the Argentine president and the current Bolivian president — was arrested in Bolivia for the attempted femicide of his former partner; rather than distancing himself from Cerimedo, Milei publicly defended him and amplified theories casting doubt on the attack.
Debt: The budget-adjustment policy has caused household over-indebtedness and reliance on credit to explode, driven by the need to purchase food and pay for essential services, whose rates have increased exponentially.
This economic policy has led to the destruction of 411,000 formal jobs, or declared jobs, and the disappearance of 30,600 companies. Growing debt to the IMF and bondholders has increased Argentina’s external dependence and restricted its sovereignty in shaping its economic policy.
Dismantling of public services: Brutal cuts to health, education and scientific research have caused an exodus of researchers and the closure of essential programs.
Privatization of strategic resources: The endangerment of the main reserves of fresh water, glaciers, as well as natural and land resources for the benefit of multinational corporations, seriously affects the country’s sovereignty.
Attacks on women’s rights: Milei’s recent statements against abortion — ‘this obsession with murdering children in their mother’s womb also costs us dearly in terms of growth’ — have caused an uproar and raised fears that the 2020 law could be challenged.
Police repression: The systematic use of force is directed against retirees, social movements and peaceful protesters, particularly Indigenous peoples expelled from their ancestral lands.
State denialism: The president and vice president downplay the crimes of the military dictatorship (1976-1983) and the 30,000 people who disappeared. They attack the organizations tasked with shedding light on the disappearances and baby thefts. In addition, Javier Milei denies climate change and the impact of devastating human activities on ecological disasters.
Verbal violence: Obscene and scatological remarks, insults and repeated threats against journalists, opponents, women — artists, journalists and politicians — human rights advocates, people with disabilities, the LGBTQI+ community and any citizen who does not share the president’s views.
The case of Casa Argentina: Since the appointment in 2024 of a director close to the president, Santiago Muzio, Casa Argentina at the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris has been at the center of growing controversy.
The eviction of residents for ideological reasons and Santiago Muzio’s refusal to sign the Cite U’s charter of values — a commitment against discrimination and in favor of freedom of conscience — have led several national houses (Japan, Canada, Germany and Denmark) to suspend their exchanges with it. Paris City Hall itself has asked the French government to investigate its operations, particularly the use of the house for meetings of the European far right. This case illustrates the authoritarian drift that the Argentine government seeks to export to France.
Given this record, the promotion of Javier Milei in France, supported by some media outlets and business organizations as well as several French leaders, seems to us to be of the utmost gravity. We therefore ask the Paris City Council and its mayor:
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To declare Javier Milei persona non grata in Paris;
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To refuse any official reception, distinction or institutional event in his honor during his stay;
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To publicly reaffirm its unwavering and strict commitment to respect for human rights and its solidarity with the democratic struggles of Argentine society.”
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Sources: Change.org – PortalTela
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