– You guys are strange, huh.
At 96 years old, after almost a year of absence, the queen of Argentine television returned to prime time. Mirtha Legrand had a scoop. Sitting at her table on Saturday night, Javier Milei, the furious far-right candidate who flirts with the presidency, and the one who since the end of August has claimed to be his girlfriend, the dancer and comedian, were together in public for the first time. Fatima Florez. He listened to them for 40 minutes: her promoting her upcoming shows and about the couple he had broken up with earlier in the year; to criticize the “corrupt politicians”, throw the cutlery while he cursed the State, and tell him that his hair was not disheveled, that “the invisible hand of the market” was combing it. “Destroying the central bank is not my only obsession,” Milei said with his eyes on his girlfriend, and while the bride and groom dedicated hearts to each other with their hands, Legrand had to say it again: “They are different from the others. “Rare.”
– We’re right for each other! –they said hand in hand– It has been a pleasure meeting you!
Javier Milei, who emerged as the favorite in the August primaries and against whom the rest of the candidates hope to reach a second round after next Sunday’s elections, was missing an essential element to qualify as an Argentine presidential candidate: a partner. And he found it, as both have shown in just a handful of highly-publicized public appearances, in the comedian who rose to fame as an impersonator of her public enemy, former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Legrand, always impeachable, asked Milei if he had been married before, if he planned to have children, and when he refused, he stoned him: “Ah, you’re a virgin.” “Marriage,” he replied. Legrand arrived with the letter that the lovers had met on one of his programs, and asked Flórez to imitate the former president again at the table. “Me, sitting with this man… no,” she proceeded with the voice that made her famous. “I’m going to take you out of power… I’m going to leave you powerless!” Milei growled at him from the other side of the table with a little smile. Social networks did not let go of the jokes about gloomy role-playing games. And if few believed the romance, this week the main voices of the tabloid press united to reject it: “It seems very fictitious”, “I don’t believe them at all”, “there would be an arrangement”. One channel even consulted with a body language expert, who said: “They are not a couple. “They don’t have emotional empathy.”
There was room for doubt. During all her years as a television guest, Milei nurtured a profile of a furious academic economist, who wanted to cut public spending while “kicking the ass” of politicians. And she was so popular that she ended up going from political talk shows to midday shows and showbiz shows. There, she liked to boast that she was “culturally libertarian as well,” that she rejected marriage as a “contract” that he “shackled,” and that she had “armies of jealous women” behind her open relationships. The Milei of its prehistory He boasted of being a tantric sex teacherand he said that he had nicknames like “bad cow” because “he ejaculated every three months.”
The presidential campaign extinguished those laughs. In a country of strong first ladies, where Eva Perón became a symbol of the working class, Cristina Kirchner ended up presiding more than her husband, or the upper classes lost their breath with the style of Juliana Awada, wife of former president Mauricio Macri, a candidate alone who was sweeping made noise. Milei was only known to have one other girlfriend, a cumbia singer with whom she was in a relationship at the peak of her television career in 2019, but the great loves of her life were her five dogs and her sister. her. The media has asked her more than once who would be her first lady, and Karina Milei is the one targeted. “She is the person who knows me best. I think she would play the role of first lady,” she once said. “You always have to have someone you report to. “I report to my sister.”
As Milei rose in the polls, he became conservative. While his followers disenchanted with politics applauded his calls to burn the central bank, the libertarian has adopted speeches that vindicate the military dictatorship, oppose sexual education in schools and deny rights to women such as abortion or equal pay. The latest polls, which keep him as leader with a small margin, do not seem to care: Milei maintains the first third for the October 22 elections with a possible second round on November 19.
Fátima Flórez, a 42-year-old artist who regularly attends spa shows in the summer season, does not seem to have added to her image either. The media doubts the relationship, and Milei’s followers, a legion of social networks that embrace each new character in her party as an idol, barely mention her. Something squeaks: Flórez reached the peak of her fame by imitating Cristina Kirchner in the programs that were in her opposition during her government, but her ideological affinity with Milei seems to go that far. In the interview with Mirtha Legrand, Flórez said that she trained as a dancer thanks to a scholarship in Cuba, and in another interview in 2018 she pointed out that it was a “lack of culture” to deny the 30,000 missing persons of the military dictatorship, which Milei openly denied in the presidential debate on October 2. But her television career has taken off again, and while she returns to top-rated shows, Milei is running the last mile of the campaign. This weekend she will close the campaign in Buenos Aires after taking a mass bath in the northern province of Salta. In the caravan this Friday, along with her local candidates, only her sister was next to her.
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