In a report for Canal E, Juan Carlos Pallarols He referred to the disagreement he had with the president Javier Milei when he had to design the baton for the presidential inauguration. A disagreement that had the renowned goldsmith and the elected libertarian leader as protagonists and in which various rumors and tensions germinated.
“I have always tried to make each baton very personal,” Pallarols confessed and detailed: “Doing it with the greatest love and affection for that person, even if he or she does not think like me or even if it is not the one I have chosen. With this last president, I don’t know if it was a misunderstanding or something, but I couldn’t make dogs on a baton because they are not in the codes. Each part has its code, has its strict laws. What you can put and what you can’t put.”
The anecdotal disagreement between Pallarols and Milei had several aspects. Months ago, when the audios of Diego Spagnuolo that involved alleged payments of bribes to the president’s sister, by businessmen supplying the National Disability Agency (ANDIS), an interview that the goldsmith had with the journalist was resurfaced on social networks. Diego Sehinkman. In the television program, the person chosen by the elected Argentine leaders to record the wielder of the presidential baton told what his meeting with Karina Milei.
“Javier tells me ‘talk to my sister, to Karina, she’s the one who manages my schedule,'” the silversmith said and continued: “I talk to Karina, she tells me ‘on Wednesday, when you tell me, I’ll tell Javier and he’ll go there. But, beforehand, you have to deposit two thousand dollars,’ and he gave me an account number.” In the end, the Pallarols family did not take charge of the work and the libertarian leadership chose the Pontoriero clan to design the command scepter.
The brand new presidential cane, 92 centimeters long, was made of toned and polished petiribi wood with additions of 900 silver and 18 carat gold, cast and chiseled by hand by the goldsmiths. Hugo Pontoriero and his son Cesar Pontoriero. The most representative thing, in addition to the national coat of arms and the initials JGM, is the figure at the top that shows the faces of its five English mastiff dogs, with their respective names: Conan, Murray, Milton, Robert and Lucas. According to the president himself, “his children.”
