Carlos Bianco
Role at the time: Minister of Government of Buenos Aires province, in a post on X
Statement summary
Carlos Bianco, minister of government of Buenos Aires province, said President Milei had taken 267 days from the Sea Lion partners' December 2025 investment decision to apply the law and was now doing so opportunistically. He said Argentina already had a legal tool in Law 26,659, that Milei had taken no effective measure against the project in the meantime, and that he and his allies are working for Argentina to raise the costs of what he called the British occupation from December 2027.
“It took the Thatcher fan 267 days to comply with the law. Now he does it opportunistically. All that time has passed since Navitas and Rockhopper announced, on December 10, 2025, their final decision to invest in the illegitimate exploitation of Sea Lion, in the North Malvinas Basin. (Translated from Spanish. Original: 267 días tardó el fan de Thatcher en cumplir la ley. Ahora lo hace de manera oportunista. Todo ese tiempo transcurrió desde que Navitas y Rockhopper anunciaron, el 10 de diciembre de 2025, su decisión final de invertir en la explotación ilegítima de Sea Lion, en la Cuenca Malvinas Norte.)”
Why we used this label
Relative to Argentina's sanctions and legal action against companies in the Sea Lion project, Bianco treats action against the project as what Argentine law already required and wants it to go further, while calling Milei's move late and opportunistic. He backs the aim but criticizes the government's timing and motives, so we labeled it Mixed.