Since its appearance in the media, Javier Milei He was characterized by making politically incorrect his behavior. Speak without filters, gesticulate ironically and skip all kinds of protocols. A trademark that catapulted him to the presidency, and that he showed again now, when he received the presidential baton from the outgoing president Alberto Fernández.
This was everyone’s surprise. Seeing his five dicks on his handle that even the same Cristina Kirchner smiled thoughtfully. The thing is that Milei had a cane made that distances him from the traditional and that was not linked to the Pallarols family, as another example of how disruptive his mandate will be.
The new presidential cane has a length of 92 centimeters, it is 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 (82) and his son and disciple Cesar Pontoriero (53). But the most representative thing, in addition to the national coat of arms and its initials JGM (the middle letter is for Gerardo), 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.”
Hugo Pontoriero, son of his namesake father and César’s twin, as well as spokesperson for the family, explains to NOTICIAS: “They contacted the Presidency directly. They had references from my father for work done for the Air Force and firms like Roemmers and Acindar. It was not a free proposal.
Santiago Oría, Milei’s publicist, He gave us a design and based on that image my father and brother did the work that took them two and a half months. As it was a direct commission, we knew that that would be the cane that would be used, beyond what the media said about other goldsmiths.” In the days before her inauguration, Milei received from Juan Carlos Pallarols a cane with the image of a lion, which she ended up rejecting.
Cheap. Although the total costs of the work were not disclosed, which included the graphic design of the five dogs, by the artist Luis Martínez, Pontoriero confirmed that 1 peso was billed to the National State “as a symbolic value”. “For my family it was an honor to have made the cane. If you see it in detail, my dad put bay leaves as a symbol of victory. “Which is Milei’s own victory in becoming president but also my father’s for such work,” he concludes.
