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Javier Milei, a self-described anarcho-capitalist who has been in comparison with former US president Donald Trump, stated in the course of the election marketing campaign “We have to see how we are going to get them back”.

He is proposing diplomatic negotiations fairly than one other invasion.

But the Prime Minister’s official spokesman stated: “This is a long-settled issue and there are no plans to revisit it. The position of the Falkland Islands was settled some time ago, and will not be changed.”

Foreign Office officers imagine the problem resurfaces every time the Argentine financial system struggles, whereas native politicians prefer to make daring declarations throughout election campaigns.

Inflation is rampant with 40% of the inhabitants of the South American nation in poverty.

Mr Milei has promised drastic adjustments akin to slicing welfare and slashing paperwork by closing ministries together with well being and training.

He has described Margaret Thatcher as one of many “great leaders in the history of humanity”.

But he additionally asserted “non-negotiable” sovereignty over the Falklands, identified in Argentina because the Malvinas.

He stated of the islands within the remaining TV election debate: “We had a war – that we lost – and now we have to make every effort to recover them through diplomatic channels.”

He proposed the same answer to the handing over of Hong Kong by the British to China in 1997. Mr Milei advised La Nacion: “Now we have to see how we are going to get them back.

“It is clear that the war option is not a solution.

“What we are proposing is to move towards a solution like the one England had with China over the Hong Kong issue and that in this context the position of the people who live on the islands cannot be ignored.

“You cannot deny that those people are there. You cannot disregard those human beings.”

Admiral Lord West, the previous First Sea Lord whose frigate HMS Ardent was sunk in the course of the Falklands War, referred to as the newest intervention over the islands’ future from Buenos Aires “terrifying” and “extraordinary”.

He stated: “The inhabitants of the Falklands have made it clear on numerous occasions that they are British and that the islands are British. The issue of sovereignty is not for debate.

“The unpardonable naked aggression of 1982 has not been forgotten and for the Argentine to raise the spectre again when the world is seeing the impact of such actions in Ukraine is extraordinary. The Hong Kong comparison is terrifying.”

The president-elect gained 56% of votes forged, the widest victory margin since Argentina returned to democracy in 1983.