What is the limit between the private and public life of an official? This is a debate that has always plagued journalism: to what extent one facet explains the other and to what extent it makes sense to report on the private life of a politician. This old argument would seem to have been settled, unexpectedly, by Javier Milei. The thing is that, among other novelties that the libertarian phenomenon brought, one is that of a government that is managed, as advertised, only by three people. Added to this are the characteristics of the space itself, one in which there is no type of order or internal regulation, in which everything is executed based on the desires, whims or intentions of that “iron triangle”. That is why, as was seen throughout last year, the ups and downs of each of them usually have an impact on management and the political structure. The ending, until now, is always the same: La Libertad Avanza is a meat grinder.
This reality can be appreciated in several ways. One is the number of officials that this government expelled, in what is already a record: according to a work that the political scientist Pablo Salinas has been doing, the Milei administration expelled 112 officials in 400 days of mandate, one every three days approximately. But this chronic instability also appears in the depths of presidential intimacy. Since Milei arrived at the Casa Rosada, she has already left a partner, the impersonator Fátima Flórez, and now her relationship with the host “Yuyito” González is going through turbulence.
Storms
The interview on Channel 13 had only been going on for two and a half minutes when it got bogged down. González had opened the note, on the morning of Monday the 13th, saying that he had traveled to Mar del Plata to see his daughter’s play. And she was there, speaking praises about those beaches, when one of the panelists interrupted her to ask her a simple question: if she had gone to the coast accompanied by her partner. Against all odds, that innocent doubt confused Yuyito, who began to respond in a concise tone. “Let’s see, what do you say? “Tell me,” he retorted, with an unfriendly face, and tried to change the subject. But the panelist, Estefi Berardi, insisted with a question, and González left a striking response. “Imagine if the President of the Nation had come here, at least he had appeared in a newspaper or something, or do you think he could do something secretly?”
Those were days when rumors of turbulence in that intimacy had been increasing since the couple did not spend the New Year together. The host Jorge Ría, in fact, went one step further: in his program on the C5N channel he assured that “everything is finished” and that the couple has not been in contact for “ten days”.
Yuyito moved the pieces, but that only served to increase the doubts. On Saturday the 11th, she uploaded a story to her Instagram account where a voice-over recounted the benefits that a “good woman” should have and contrasted them with those who only seek some type of personal benefit in a partner – which seemed, at least clearly a hint – and then he posted, on Wednesday the 15th, a photo of his hand next to Milei’s. This could be one more romantic image of that duo if it weren’t for one detail.
Elections
In mid-December, when there was another media back-and-forth about an alleged crisis between the two – after Yuyito’s announced move to Olivos did not happen and it became viral on the networks that she had stopped following him on Instagram -, González made a harsh editorial regarding the subject in his program on the Ciudad Magazine channel. There he assured that from that moment on he was not going to do any more “this ‘love, let’s take a photo to prove’ thing, that’s no more, I’m not going to take any more photos or show chats to prove anything, I understand that there are people “That does it but it is not our language.” Less than a month later, however, he did exactly the opposite.
It is clear that presidential intimacy has an impact not only on how the Government is run but also on how it is perceived outside. Milei, in fact, formalized his romance with Fátima Florez with important timing: weeks before the general elections. In fact, Ángel, a former assistant of the impersonator, said on the “LAM” program that that relationship was “all a lie” and that Florez “was always alone.” The question, then, is whether the libertarian intends to go through this year’s votes alone or if, as the old political manual dictates, he will do so accompanied. Either way, one thing is clear: in La Libertad Avanza, the personal is political.
