STORY: Argentine President Javier Milei was rushed out of a public event by his security team in Buenos Aires province on Wednesday (August 27) after protesters threw rocks and other objects at his car, according to Reuters witnesses.

The president was standing in the back of a moving pickup truck with security team members and his sister Karina Milei, who is also his chief of staff, while campaigning for upcoming local and midterm elections.

Some people in the crowd began throwing things, with at least one rock hitting the hood of the truck. Other items were seen being thrown over the president's head.

The pickup truck sped away from the crowd, which was yelling anti-government chants like "Get out, Milei." People within the crowd were also fighting each other.

Milei's spokesperson Manuel Adorni said on X that members of the opposition "attacked" the president's caravan and that there were no injuries.

Several people in Milei's inner circle, including his sister, are embroiled in a corruption scandal over allegations of bribery in Argentina's agency for the disabled.

Milei's caravan was moving through streets of Lomas de Zamora, a district in Buenos Aires province that is traditionally a stronghold of the Peronist opposition movement.

Argentine authorities on Friday (August 22) raided a series of properties as part of a criminal investigation into an alleged kickback scheme related to Diego Spagnuolo, who headed the disability agency.

Local media published audio recordings in which a voice that sounds like that of Spagnuolo can be heard discussing bribery within the agency and alluding to Karina Milei taking payments.

Milei's government last week fired Spagnuolo "as a preventive measure," it said in a statement.

Local elections in the province of Buenos Aires on September 7 and midterm elections on October 26 are both crucial opportunities for Milei to expand his government's power and fight harder against opposition attempts to reign in his spending cuts, which he hopes will attract international investment and boost trade.

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VIDEO SHOWS: ARGENTINA'S PRESIDENT JAVIER MILEI ATTENDING LA LIBERTAD AVANZA PARTY RALLY IN LOMAS DE ZAMORA AHEAD OF LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS IN THE PROVINCE OF BUENOS AIRES / MILEI BEING EVACUATED FROM EVENT DUE TO CROWD AGGRESSION / SOUNDBITES FROM PEOPLE ATTENDING RALLY

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SHOWS: LOMAS DE ZAMORA, BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA (AUGUST 27, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF ARGENTINA PRESIDENT JAVIER MIEI AND HIS SISTER KARINA MILEI, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE PRESIDENCY, TOGETHER WITH LOCAL CANDIDATES IN A CAMPAIGN CARAVAN FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS BEING ATTACKED WITH FLYING OBJECTS

2. PRESIDENT MILEI AND SISTER KARINA MILEI STAYING WITH THE CARAVAN FOR A FEW METERS

3. VARIOUS OF MILEI AND SISTER KARINA MILEI LEAVING PLACE IN PICKUP TRUCK

4. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MILEI SUPPORTER ATTENDING RALLY, FLAVIO ARENALES, 52, SAYING:

“We were all calmly waiting for Milei, the caravan appeared. I've lost my voice from shouting. We all came in a caravan and chunks of rubble started flying, really serious like this. I already showed one that hit me on the back, it almost hit me on the head. They were throwing everything at the president, he had to turn here and leave because it’s inevitable if rubble is raining down on you. There’s a dumpster here placed on purpose with debris.”

5. ARENALES, ARGUING WITH PROTESTERS OPPOSED TO MILEI

6. VARIOUS SUPPORTERS AND OPPONENTS OF MILEI CLASHING

7. VARIOUS OF LA LIBERTAD AVANZA PARTY BUS BEING ATTACKED BY OPPONENTS OF MILEI, POLICE INTERVENING

8. FEDERAL POLICE VEHICLES ADVANCING THROUGH CROWD

9. VARIOUS OF EMILIA MANAZZA, OPPONENT OF MILEI, ARGUING WITH LIBERTARIAN WOMEN AND HOLDING A SIGN READING (Spanish): “Bribe from Karina, USD $800,000 per month = 3512 minimum pensions per month)

10. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MILEI OPPONENT ATTENDING RALLY, EMILIA MANAZZA, SAYING:

“It’s one more mockery, given what the president’s administration has been in 18 months. That he comes to the neighborhoods only during campaign season to rub it in our faces that he spent 18 months travelling abroad to receive bogus awards -sorry for the expression- and that he doesn’t devote himself precisely to touring the districts of the metro area, the provinces. How many provinces did he tour in 18 months of administration? To see the infrastructure that is missing, the schools falling to pieces, the hospitals, and all the public works that have been halted for 18 months, to see precisely the real problems and not to mock the neighbors who come to express our anger, nothing more and nothing less, which is our right too.”

11. PROTESTERS FROM BOTH SIDES ARGUING AT SCENE

12. OPPONENTS OF MILEI CHANTING AGAINST MILEI SUPPORTERS

13. VARIOUS OF DUMPSTER WITH ROCKS AT SCENE