It is a kind of paradox: the figure is unimportant, without much political significance. And yet, it is one of the ones that generates the most ridiculousness. The first lady or, eventually, the first gentleman are up for debate, always. And on this occasion, in addition, the names are known in advance to the general public.
The brand new love laundering between Javier Milei and Fatima Florez He put an additional debate on the table: if the candidate of La Libertad Avanza were elected, would he force the actress and impersonator to leave her professional career to exchange it for protocol acts?
Just like Milei, Fatima could be considered the only outsider of the election: Sergio Massa’s wife, Malena Galmarinimade a political career alongside her husband, and Guillermo Yanco, the multifaceted husband of Patricia Bullrichshares, as a consultant and entrepreneur, the same world.
For one of them the routine will change on December 10: it will have to happen to Fabiola Yanez, which will leave as a legacy a sad teaching. Nobody expects too much from the president’s couple, although it can do a lot of damage to the management, as was Fabiola’s unfortunate idea of celebrating her birthday in Olivos in the midst of a pandemic.
Novelty.
The news of the courtship between Milei and Fátima crossed the political and entertainment programs transversally. It is that the brand new boyfriends are protagonists of their own worlds: the candidate with the most votes in the PASO and one of the most attractive actresses on the scene. Guaranteed media success.
“If I am president, She has to get on with her career.”, answered Milei to the question of entertainment journalism. Suddenly, the candidate who said that he could not turn on the phone because of the number of messages that came to him and that he had a habit of not responding to strangers, made a hole in the agenda to answer everything related to his love situation.
In fact, the moment in which the romance was known generated suspicions. On the political level, for a candidate who is accused of having a fragile and unstable personal situation, forming a couple with a respected and famous actress brings only gain.
“They are all saying that there is money here, that they do it for the campaign, that is why they are saying it now,” journalist Ángel de Brito wrote to the imitator. She was quick to reply: “The last thing we don’t want is to be thought to be a political construct. I have nothing to do with it nor do I care.” Only time and the circumstances of the elections will be able to answer that concern.
As long as the campaign warms up again, the actress will continue with her shows. His public reappearance will be on September 22, with a show in Lanús. Then you will have to analyze what you do in the summer: “He has proposals to premiere his new show in Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz and Mar del Plata. Or return to Uruguay and perform in Punta del Este in the new theater of an international hotel”, they say from their press office. All while his new partner is risking his political future at the polls.
Together.
At the antipodes of Flórez is Malena Galmarini. The leader grew politically alongside Sergio Massa and today is a fundamental part of the army. It is that, after the harsh defeat suffered in the PASO in Tigre, in the hands of Julio Zamora, the head of AySA joined the campaign team of the candidate of Unión por la Patria.
From the Miter street bunker, where he already has his office, Malena works in coordination with mayors and governors to avoid the cutting of ballots that Massa suffered in the primaries. The campaign team believes that, if they put together five more points, they would be in the race to enter the runoff. Galmarini seeks that goal.
Although, in principle, it is doomed to the thread, in Unión por la Patria they predict that it will have a leading role in the campaign. For now, she takes care of accompanying Massa to the television studios, with a low profile, but that will change as the days go by.
Third place in the PASO does not allow the ruling party to think about what a new government would be like. But they can imagine that, if Massa is elected, the role of his political partner will be fundamental.
Through Malena, Massa also put a foot in show business. It is that her father-in-law, the historic Peronist leader Fernando “Pato” Galmarini, is in a relationship with Moria Casan. That guarantees the support of the diva: “I put my energy in Sergio, in everything he is doing,” she told her son-in-law. And even he revealed some advice that she gave him: “I always suggest my modus operandi, which is the Vaseline pyramid. Don’t get hooked on the good or the bad. Focus on yours and always move forward, ”she finished.
first knight.
The case of the Bullrich couple, Guillermo Yanco, it is a hybrid: it is related to politics but has diverse interests. Even the acting.
In recent weeks, the 79-year-old man has been caught in the middle of a dispute between his wife and Milei. The libertarian candidate had accused him of orchestrating an “operation” against him for the whistling that Milei was given in an act at the AMIA, in which Yanco was present. and the leader of Together for Change He replied: “Don’t mess with my husband. Let him argue with me ”. And he added: “Let’s discuss what the country needs because when someone from politics messes with his sister it hurts him, and when they mess with my husband it hurts me.”
It is not the first time that Yanco has acquired a leading role, despite having a low profile. In March, in successive reports on C5N, they revealed how, in the role of his businessman, he was related to politics. “He is one of the partners of Geas SRL, company dedicated to the control of fire extinguishers. According to its own website, one of the most important clients it has is the City Government”, reported the journalist Mauro Federico.
But it also had the State directly as an employer. He was a consultant to Bullrich during the government of Fernando de La Rúa. In addition, between 2008 and 2009, he was an adviser in the Chamber of Deputies. And from 2010 until this year he appears on the payroll of the Buenos Aires Legislature.
Yanco and Fátima Flórez could be united by a passion: theater. In fact, the couple of the former Minister of Security tried to climb the tables on one occasion. It was a decade ago, when the multifaceted character debuted in the play “El Evento”, directed by Luz Palazón and written by Julio Chávez. “My husband, my actor”, Bullrich greeted him on networks at that time.
For one of them, life will turn upside down after the elections. International tours, protocol and public speeches are some of the activities that appear on the agenda of the president’s couple, whether they are first lady or first gentleman.
Even after the Olivos party and the fact that Alberto Fernández, still in office, moved out of the political foreground, Fabiola Yáñez continues with these activities. In the last month, for example, she gave a talk at the First Meeting of Latin American Women, presented a space in Tecnópolis and launched a training course with the Banco Nación Foundation.
Fátima Flórez, Malena Galmarini or Guillermo Yanco tThey will have to succeed her in her duties starting in December. The role of first lady or first gentleman is sensitive and usually ungrateful: nobody values it too much and, on top of that, it is at the mercy of the most furious controversies.
