Libertarian representative Lilia Lemoine announced this week that she will not be able to do media for at least seven days. The cause was not political—although there was no lack of open fronts in that field either: fell off the horse trying to ride “bareback”, that is, without a frame, and he ended up with a considerable bump on his cheekbone.
“It occurred to me to try to ride bareback (I watched Far and Away and Spirit last weekend) and I ended up giving myself an epic blow,” Lemoine wrote on her X account. The legislator clarified, with a certain stoicism, that “the pain was more moral than physical”and who now sports “a horrible bump on his cheek.”
The choice of terms did not go unnoticed. The image of a representative who decides, suddenly, ride without a saddle inspired by romantic films, it has an evocative charge that Lemoine seemed to embrace without any great shame.
The logistical problem arose later: “We didn’t have ice, but there was a frozen cheese sauce”she completed in a second tweet, accompanied by a photo where she is seen applying the little pot to her cheekbone. A remedy as homemade as it is unusual for a public figure.
That same weekend, Lemoine had been particularly active on social mediaalthough in a much less peaceful way: he harshly attacked Vice President Victoria Villarruel, whom he called a “lightbulb tamer” and declared that “she is going to end up in a formula with Moreno.” The deputy accused Villarruel of planning destabilizing movements within La Libertad Avanza and of having definitively distanced herself from the libertarian space.
The episode occurs at a time of high political activity for Lemoine, who has been one of the most combative voices of the ruling party in the internal dispute with Villarruel. His absence in the media over the next few days coincides with a week that promises to be busy on the board of La Libertad Avanza, where the tensions between the presidential environment and the vice president are no longer hidden.
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