ARGENTINA’S libertarian President Javier Milei condemned a threat by the governor of the oil-rich province of Chubut to cut off energy supplies to the rest of the country amid a dispute over funding reductions on Monday.

Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said the threat was “not an attack on the federal government, but on all Argentines.”

The squabble started late last week, when the federal government held back the transfer of 13,000 million pesos (£12m) in federal tax revenues to the Chubut province.