Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina Sunday night, with the extreme-libertarian tantric intercourse guru who has no political expertise likened to Donald Trump.
Earlier this yr, DailyMail.com printed an in-depth take a look at the brand new chief and his very colourful life, which we have now reproduced to commemorate Milei’s historic win…
There’s by no means a boring second with former self-described ‘tantric sex coach’ and now Argentine presidential frontrunner Javier Milei.
Indeed, Milei – who can also be a outstanding economist and radio chat-show host – has spoken about his desire for threesomes, why he believes poor individuals ought to be free to promote their physique components, and the way he enjoys speaking through telepathy together with his useless canine for political recommendation.
The far-Right libertarian can also be an admirer of Donald Trump – and it actually exhibits: the outspoken firebrand has quickly risen to prominence vowing to ‘kick politicians out on their asses’ and railing in opposition to the elite ‘caste’ he says guidelines Argentina.
The populist showman and daytime TV star, whose frenetic rallies and social media rants additionally evoke The Donald, dismisses world warming as a ‘socialist lie’ and says he would abolish a lot of the nation’s authorities proper right down to its beleaguered central financial institution.
Argentina has a weak spot for excessive leaders, and the nation – an financial basket-case the place annual inflation charge shockingly stands at over 115 % – could also be about to vote in its wildest but.
Milei has simply pulled off a shock victory within the major spherical of voting forward of subsequent month’s election, largely resulting from assist from younger voters who’re so disenchanted with extra ‘conventional’ politicians that they’ve turned to a person whose latest biography was titled El Loco (The Madman).
There’s by no means a boring second with former self-described tantric intercourse coach and now Argentine presidential frontrunner Javier Milei (pictured with Argentine actress Fátima Florez). Indeed, Milei has spoken about his desire for threesomes and why he believes poor individuals ought to be free to promote their physique components.
The far-Right libertarian can also be an admirer of Donald Trump… and it actually exhibits: the outspoken firebrand has quickly risen to prominence vowing to ‘kick politicians out on their asses’ and railing in opposition to the elite ‘caste’ he says guidelines Argentina.
A political unknown till solely three years in the past, Milei, 52, was elected to Argentina’s parliament in December 2021 as a member of La Libertad Avanza (‘Freedom Advances’).
He prefers to name himself an anarcho-capitalist, which suggests he’d like to tear up as a lot authorities intervention in individuals’s lives as he can and go away all of it to the free market.
‘If I had to choose between the state and the mafia, I would choose the mafia,’ he as soon as mentioned. ‘Because the mafia has codes, the mafia adapts, the mafia doesn’t lie. And above all, the mafia competes.’
His so-called ‘chainsaw plan’ to slash the bloated state consists of eliminating Argentina’s public well being and schooling methods together with shuttering ten out of 18 authorities departments.
Milei can also be so anti-progressive he has repeatedly taken intention – somewhat bizarrely – at Pope Francis, his compatriot, calling him a ‘f***ing communist’, ‘communist turd’ and the ‘representative of the evil one on Earth’ in brutal social media posts, merely due to his perceived assist for ‘social justice’ and insurance policies to assist the poor.
‘Jesus didn’t pay taxes,’ Milei memorably tweeted.
His personal persona seems to match the general public picture of an unpredictable eccentric.
At dwelling he retains 4 200lb English Mastiffs. All named after well-known right-wing economists – and each cloned from a fifth, now-dead canine named Conan (after the Barbarian).
A latest biography by journalist Juan Luis González revealed Milei research telepathy in his spare time and has a medium to ‘communicate’ with Conan, who died in 2017, asking him for recommendation on political issues.
Astonishingly, Milei hasn’t denied the claims. ‘What I do in my house is my business,’ he informed a Spanish newspaper.
A latest biography by journalist Juan Luis González revealed Milei research telepathy in his spare time and has a medium to speak together with his canine Conan, who died in 2017, asking him for recommendation on political issues.
Not that he’s often so secretive.
Milei, who’s single and has by no means married, proudly says he was once an teacher of tantric intercourse – a sluggish, meditative type of intercourse based mostly on Eastern philosophies the place the top aim will not be orgasm however enjoyment of the method – and will go a full three months with out ejaculating.
He’s additionally talked brazenly about having threesomes.
Even so, he has known as Conan the best love of his life, an animal he so cherished that in a financially robust interval he survived solely on pizza so Conan had sufficient to eat.
The canine is intently adopted in Milei’s affections by his youthful sister, Karina, who he has vowed to make his First Lady if he turns into president.
Certainly, all of it sounds somewhat odd – but when something, Milei revels within the lunacy.
When a political opponent known as him ‘a disheveled panelist who screams on a stage and sleeps with eight dogs and his sister’ throughout a debate, Milei’s solely response was to say: ‘I don’t have eight canine’.
And then there’s his hair…
As an adolescent, Milei sang in ‘Everest’, a rock band that knocked out Rolling Stones covers. He nonetheless behaves like a wannabe rock star now, strutting round on the election path in a black leather-based jacket shaking an unruly mane of thick black hair that’s so peculiar it has earned him a nickname: The Wig.
Hardly flattering – however maybe an enchancment on ‘The Madman’, a sobriquet which originated at college.
Milei says he by no means combs the hairdo and that solely his celebration’s vp, Lilia Lemoine, a eager cosplayer, is allowed to model it. She additionally does his make-up: Milei is so useless he refuses to seem in backlit photographs as they present up his double chin. Ms Lemoine employs a ‘contouring’ approach much like the one promoted by the Kardashians.
Milei’s absurdity could have one thing to do together with his sad childhood. He grew up in Buenos Aires the place his father was a bus driver and later a transport sector businessman. Milei claims his dad and mom, Norberto and Alicia, bodily and verbally abused him when he was younger. As an grownup, he didn’t communicate to them for a decade. ‘They are dead to me,’ he has mentioned.
As an adolescent, Milei sang in a rock band that knocked out Rolling Stones covers. He nonetheless behaves like a wannabe rock star now, strutting round on the election path in a black leather-based jacket shaking an unruly mane of thick black hair that’s so peculiar it has earned him a nickname: The Wig.
Milei’s absurdity could have one thing to do together with his sad childhood. He grew up in Buenos Aires the place his father was a bus driver and later a transport sector businessman. Milei claims his dad and mom, Norberto and Alicia, bodily and verbally abused him when he was younger. (Pictured: Milei in his youth).
At college, he reportedly had no associates, and infrequently boiled over in infamous indignant outbursts.
He later studied to be an economist however discovered the dry lifetime of academia wasn’t for him.
Then, round 5 years in the past, he all of a sudden tried his luck on Argentina’s beloved daytime TV chat exhibits – and producers shortly realized viewers couldn’t get sufficient of his demented claims about his sexual stamina and his brazen political beliefs.
Raised a Catholic and now mentioned to be changing to Judaism, his views on abortion are excessive: desirous to ban terminations in each case besides when a mom’s life is in peril.
Though, whereas he could also be staunchly against pro-choice views relating to being pregnant, he is proposed a controversial ‘market mechanisms’ to cope with lengthy ready lists for transplants, arguing that organs are an individual’s property to promote as they select.
He needs to see Argentina ditch the peso and undertake the US greenback as its nationwide foreign money, slash taxes, privatize state-owned corporations and scrap subsidies.
As for overseas coverage, he believes his pure allies can be the US and Israel, saying: ‘I don’t wish to have something to do with the communists of Cuba, China and North Korea.’
On the ever thorny query of the Falkland Islands, which Argentina unsuccessfully tried to seize from Britain in 1982 through the prime ministership of Margaret Thatcher, certainly one of his icons, Milei proposes copying the UK’s switch of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
He has known as Conan the best love of his life, an animal he so cherished that in a financially robust interval he survived solely on pizza so Conan had sufficient to eat. The canine is intently adopted in Milei’s affections by his youthful sister, Karina (pictured), who he has vowed to make his First Lady if he turns into president.
‘It has to be a solution that satisfies [the UK], that satisfies Argentina and that satisfies those who live on the islands,’ he informed the El Pais newspaper.
That sounds refreshingly affordable in comparison with the cynical saber-rattling of earlier Argentine presidents – although given Falkland Islanders overwhelmingly say they wish to stay a British abroad territory, a Hong Kong-style handover appears impossible.
Falkland Islanders could then be protected from rule beneath Milei – however what of their neighboring Argentines?
Perhaps solely a seance with the all-knowing canine spirit of Conan the Barbarian can reply that.