Watch: Argentina's outgoing vice president gives the middle finger to Javier Miley's supporters

Javier Miley, the new President of Argentina, speaks from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, Argentina Photo: JUAN IGNACIO RONCORONI/SHUTTERSTOCK Javier Miley and his sister Karina greet supporters after the presidential inauguration ceremony. Photo: MARCELO ENDELLI/GETTY IMAGES

At the ceremony on Sunday, Ms Fernandez de Kirchner looked visibly uncomfortable standing next to a beaming 53-year-old Miley as the brash right-wing libertarian economist took the presidential oath.

The incident has already This is not the first time Ms Fernandez has been polarizing. De Kirchner courted controversy during the two decades she was at the forefront of Argentine politics.

During her 2007-2015 presidency, she grew close to Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, and Hugo Chavez, the late leader of Venezuela . She was also accused of falsifying inflation statistics and giving Iran control of the investigation into the unsolved 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people.

She has also been known to appear on television dressed. wearing all white after the shooting of the anti-corruption prosecutor who was investigating her case.

During a glitzy ceremony on Sunday, Mr. Miley signed the ceremonial presidential register, adding the word «carajo,» loosely translated as «damn» after his name.

His presidential cane was reportedly inscribed with the faces of two of his cloned dogs.