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 12 months, DailyMail.com printed an in-depth take a look at the brand new chief and his very colourful life, which we now have 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 be a outstanding economist and radio chat-show host – has spoken about his desire for threesomes, why he believes poor folks ought to be free to promote their physique components, and the way he enjoys speaking by way of telepathy together with his useless canine for political recommendation.
The far-Right libertarian can be an admirer of Donald Trump – and it definitely reveals: the outspoken firebrand has quickly risen to prominence vowing to ‘kick politicians out on their asses’ and railing towards 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 global 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 price shockingly stands at over 115 p.c – could also be about to vote in its wildest but.
Milei has simply pulled off a shock victory within the main spherical of voting forward of subsequent month’s election, largely resulting from help from young voters who’re so disenchanted with extra ‘conventional’ politicians that they’ve turned to a person whose recent biography was titled El Loco (The Madman).
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 implies he’d like to tear up as a lot authorities intervention in folks’s lives as he can and depart 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 contains eliminating Argentina’s public well being and schooling techniques together with shuttering ten out of 18 authorities departments.
Milei can be so anti-progressive he has repeatedly taken intention – relatively 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 help for ‘social justice’ and insurance policies to assist the poor.
‘Jesus didn’t pay taxes,’ Milei memorably tweeted.
His non-public persona seems to match the general public picture of an unpredictable eccentric.
At home 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 recent 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 advised a Spanish newspaper.
Not that he’s normally so secretive.
Milei, who’s single and has by no means married, proudly says he was an teacher of tantric intercourse – a sluggish, meditative type of intercourse primarily based on Eastern philosophies the place the tip purpose is just not orgasm however enjoyment of the method – and will go a full three months with out ejaculating.
He’s additionally talked overtly 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 carefully adopted in Milei’s affections by his younger sister, Karina, who he has vowed to make his First Lady if he turns into president.
Certainly, all of it sounds relatively 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 dogs’.
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 in school.
Milei says he by no means combs the hairdo and that solely his social gathering’s vp, Lilia Lemoine, a eager cosplayer, is permitted to fashion it. She additionally does his make-up: Milei is so useless he refuses to seem in backlit images 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 young. As an grownup, he didn’t converse to them for a decade. ‘They are dead to me,’ he has mentioned.
At college, he reportedly had no associates, and sometimes 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 abruptly tried his luck on Argentina’s beloved daytime TV chat reveals – and producers shortly realized viewers couldn’t get sufficient of his demented claims about his sexual stamina and his brazen political views.
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 at risk.
Though, whereas he could also be staunchly against pro-choice views in the case of being pregnant, he is proposed a controversial ‘market mechanisms’ to cope with lengthy ready lists for transplants, arguing that organs are a person’s property to promote as they select.
He desires 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 international 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 in the course of 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.
‘It has to be a solution that satisfies [the UK], that satisfies Argentina and that satisfies those who live on the islands,’ he advised 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 very unlikely.
Falkland Islanders could then be secure from rule underneath Milei – however what of their neighboring Argentines?
Perhaps solely a seance with the all-knowing canine spirit of Conan the Barbarian can reply that.
