This time, Javier Milei had no agenda problem. On Tuesday 22, In the middle of the work day, he got into tango 10 and went to Córdoba to close the right Festa private event that was born as an ideological space in 2024 and, in its second edition, became a party act.
The president, who With weak arguments he decided not to participate in the last two national acts (Rosario, on June 20, and Tucumán, on July 9), this time he did not hesitate to travel To receive the ovation of about 2500 militants, make their singing and insults show, predict a triumph in October and denost its vice president Victoria Villarruel.
The controversy.
It was a month ago, in the streaming Neura, which Milei announced its participation of the private event that organized one of his acolytes, his biographer Nicolás Márquez, and that sponsored the daily right, by Javier Negre. “We are going to the right Fest, we had not announced it publicly, but we are going to go,” he said. From that moment he became one of the godparents of the act, whose entrance cost 35 thousand pesos.
As well as with Libra, with the inauguration of the Evangelical Temple of Chaco or with the “Presidency Scholarship” of the ESEADE Institute of his friend Benegas Lynch, Milei again offered the presidential attributes for a private business.
But the greatest controversy, and for which a request to report the Chamber of Deputies, was the millionaire spending of the State so that the president could attend the show. The socialist legislator Esteban Paulón required that the use of public resource be reported to move to a private event. ANDs that, in principle, the Lear Jet 60 of the presidential fleet moved. In Córdoba it would have waited about 40 personnel from the Military House, who traveled before. In addition, it was guarded by a hundred gendarmes of the base Jesús María to accompany him in the transfer from the airport to the Quorum hotel, where Fest was made, less than 4 kilometers in a straight line along La Voz del Interior Avenue.
To the Milei show they did not allow journalism to enter. Even when they detected that a page/12 chronicler was mixed in the public, they took it out of the room. “They took me to a vacant lot where there were parked cars. They told me that I was calm, that it was to put on a press bracelet,” said Melisa Molina. And he continued: “They threw me two 20 thousand tickets, which was what was worth the entrance that I bought on the website. I did not accept them and left me behind bars without allowing me to leave, with military house staff. I could not enter again.”
The excluded.
In the right Fest there is no place for journalists, but neither for critics. Those who accompany Milei must be devotees of their word because any hint of doubt in management can leave them outside the circle of trust. This happened to two ideological referents of the right, which were fundamental in the first edition and on Tuesday 22 they shone by their absence.
Cristian Rodrigo Iturralde was the creator and organizer of the first right Fest, in Buenos Aires, in September 2024. He had the collaboration of the Chilean Francisca Morrison, who was in charge of getting the necessary money to begin with, and Nicolás Márquez, who gave him publicity. The differences with Milei management were marginalizing it: it was never reliable. For the second edition, I was already outside.
Something like that happened to the liberal influencer Emmanuel Danann. He was one of the main speakers in the premiere edition of the Libertarian Festival with Agustín Laje, but did not participate in this second, although he had already closed even the Cachet that I was going to perceive. What happened? “A certain deputy lowered me,” says News in reference to Lilia Lemoine, who would have convinced Milei that Danann was not loyal to the cause. “We are libertarians, not observing,” complains the influencer.
Danann stopped talking to the president a month ago. Some criticisms of his management and what he says is a “obsession” of Lemoine against him, they moved him away. “She knows a lot. She got into the indicated sheets,” he suggests.
In the first edition, La Libertad Avanza had not repaired what the show could mean. For fear of failing, the libertarians had not accompanied or publicized: not even a tweet. But, when he worked that he worked, on this second chance they took it as his own. They transformed an ideological event into a party act that, according to opposition legislators, cost the Argentines several million.
Iturralde, the creator, outside!
They publicly confirmed it, among others, Nicolás Márquez and Agustín Laje: who came up with the idea of making an event to combine different voices of the right in Argentina is a Cristian Rodrigo Iturralde. But he was never a fan of Milei and that cost him expensive: the creator ended up staying outside his event. In this second edition, Iturralde saw what was happening in Córdoba from home. “The mistake was that I did not register the brand. Márquez did it in his name. At that time I thought it was not important, we were friends and it seemed only a formality,” says repentant.
He is not satisfied with the turn that gave his creation: “Now, instead of being a right -wing platform, it is a political platform,” protests. And he adds: “They take advantage of the right brand Fest to do acts. They are supporters of Milei. It was not so in its origin.”
