Conducted by the private firm Zuban Cordoba y Asociados, the survey reveals that 56 percent of Argentineans believe that President Javier Milei should be impeached; compared to 41.6 percent who disagree with this procedure by the Congress.

The scandal erupted after the release of audio recordings in which Diego Spagnuolo, former director of the National Agency for Disability (ANDIS), a friend and former lawyer of the president and other politicians from La Libertad Avanza, revealed that Karina and Menem, among others, received refunds from oversized invoices for medications for people with disabilities.

According to the recordings, the amounts were authorized by the General Secretariat of the Presidency, headed by Karina, about whom Spagnuolo said she collected up to $800,000 a month from the amounts collected for medications by Droguería Suizo Argentina SA for ANDIS.

Now, Spagnuolo and brothers Jonathan and Emmanuel Kovalivker, owners of the implicated drugstore, are being investigated by the courts.

The Zuban Cordoba study, conducted among 1,200 people over the age of 16, confirmed that the political crisis unleashed within the libertarian government has shaken confidence in society, the economy, and its electoral base.

While 65 percent believe Karina Milei and Eduardo Menem, along with their cousin Martin Menem, the current Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, should resign and submit to justice, 29.5 percent disagree.

The survey concludes that 70 percent of Argentines would not put their hands in the fire for Karina Milei or the Menems, and only 20.7 percent would do so.

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