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(Bloomberg) -- Javier Milei was in the middle of his first television interview as Argentina’s president-elect when an adviser abruptly handed him a cell phone. The cameras stopped rolling. Pope Francis was on the line.Most Read from BloombergGermany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an EndTop Nigerian Banker Killed in Helicopter Crash in CaliforniaHow Worried Should You Be About Commercial Real Estate?Trump Says Ukraine War Must End as US Aid Advances in SenateThe world’s two mos

Milei, a foul-mouthed libertarian economist, has called the pope a "filthy leftist" and "the devil's man on Earth."

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Sunday tapped leftist economist Silvina Batakis as the country’s new economy minister after her predecessor’s resignation on Saturday deepened a political crisis boiling over into the economy and markets. Fernandez spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti confirmed the decision to Bloomberg News. Batakis, a low-profile policymaker whose appointment came as a surprise, did not respond to a request for comment from Bloomberg News on late on Sunday night. Batakis inherits a long list of economic challenges and the government’s US$44 billion program with the IMF...