Various images showing the Corrientes representative were viralized on social networks. Virginia Gallardo putting on makeup and taking a selfie on her parliamentary bench. The sequence took place in an intermediate room, during the presentation of the Chief of Staff Manuel Adorniin the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation. Digital users harshly criticized the libertarian legislator for her aesthetic posture, on a day where the coordinator of government ministers was in the eye of the storm and denied testifying about the facts that are being questioned.
In conversations with Maxi Sardi, in the radio series El Trisparador on Delta98.3, the senator Carolina Losada He referred to the topic. “She is a woman who showed her body a lot, because it was her job, and it is perfect,” highlighted the vice president of the Upper House of the Nation and added: “There are some people who do not forgive her for that and do not forgive her that she is now in politics and that she can be a deputy.” “If she puts on makeup in the intermission room, what is the problem?”, the Santa Fe legislator closed, stating that the questions in X are due to a sexist perspective and with many prejudices.
Last week, several exTwitter users focused on the behavior of the ex-girlfriend of the deceased millionaire Ricardo Fort. “What feeling does Congresswoman Instagram generate in you?” asked the economist. Sergio Chouza on her
The former star kept us silent. The legislator from La Libertad Avanza responded to Chouza through the same digital medium. “She’s really good! Shall I introduce her to you? Just because she clearly wouldn’t give you a kiss,” he tweeted. In other statements collected after the episode, the deputy minimized the fact and said: “Why don’t you take a photo of this beautiful trunk that leaves you many kisses? I didn’t know that cleaning myself, a kiss or taking a selfie was a sin in an intermediate room”, while denouncing an excessive exposure of her actions within the premises.
In other publications of his own, Gallardo also questioned what he defined as coordinated attacks on networks, referring to an “army of trolls” that amplified the controversy, in an attempt—according to his view—to divert attention from the political content of the session. The public defense was unable to completely dispel the criticism, which continued to revolve around the relevance of this type of conduct during an institutional event.
Gallardo had arrived at his seat as part of the political assembly of LLA, the space led by President Javier Milei and his sister Karina, after the legislative elections of 2025. Coming from the world of entertainment – where she built her profile as a model, dancer and television panelist – her landing in politics occurred within the framework of the expansion of the libertarian space, which incorporated media figures and outsiders as part of its electoral strategy.
Candidate for the province of Corrientes, the libertarian candidate was elected national deputy and formally assumed office on December 10, 2025, joining the ruling bloc in the lower house. During the campaign she had expressed her alignment with the ideas of the ruling party and defended the political direction of the government, positioning herself as a representative of the renewal that the space sought to impress in Congress.
Thus, the selfie episode not only exposed a specific situation within the premises, but also revived discussions about the new emerging profiles of the ruling party, such as Karen Reichardt or Tronco Figliuolo. In addition to questioning the use of social networks in full legislative activity and the limits between the personal and the institutional in public representation.
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