It is a long time ago, it is difficult to record how much, that Argentine politics does not launch a product with international repercussions such as Javier Miley. It has a huge impact on the networks.
This impact, it must be recognized, is linked to the ideological affinity between a political leader like Milei, which preaches the existence of a public life without a Statewith a long tradition, at least 20 or 25 years old, of the entire computing, digital ecosystem of Silicon Valley, whose business leaders think the same. A world run by software, run by networks.
Read also: Javier Milei defended Santiago Caputo after criticism from a libertarian senator and stirred up the internal conflict
This is enhanced by Milei through many disseminators, businessmen who reproduce his messages, the best known of which is Elon Musk.
Now, there is another reason why Milei becomes striking outside of Argentina and it is her eccentricity. His eccentricity in the way he expresses himself and also his physical eccentricity.
Kogos and Meireles visited the Casa Rosada, the National Congress and a headquarters of La Libertad Avanza (Photo: Agustina Ribó/TN).
A couple of articles have been written, one very interesting one in The Guardianthe British newspaper, about a topic that I am a little inhibited from touching on, which is the relationship between hair and populism.
The idea of populist leaders like Boris Johnson, like Donald Trump, like Beppe Grillo, who was perhaps the founder of this movement with 5 Stars in Italy, and the idea of a messy, bushy, crazy mane, which attracts attention, which suggests that there are unconventional ideas there, that the person wearing it is unconventional.
This has drawn a lot of attention from these leaders and, above all, from Milei. What we did not know – what at least I did not expect – is that Milei imitators appeared now in the region.
Read also: Amid tensions with Villarruel, Milei criticized the increase in the senators’ diet: “It is a betrayal of the working people”
A candidate for what Brazilians call appears councilorwho would be a councillor among us. This year, in October, November, there are municipal elections in Brazil, in Florianópolis, and there is a candidate called Ademar Rodrigues Meireles who says “I am the Brazilian Milei”. He has Milei’s hair, he wears a wig with Milei’s sideburns.
Rodrigues Meireles was in Buenos Aires, put on the Argentine presidential sash and says “I want to be the Brazilian Milei”. Obviously, he is aligned with Bolsonaro and belongs to the party that brought him to power, the Liberal Party.
Elon Musk is one of the businessmen who support Javier Milei’s ideology. (Photo: Presidency)
This character takes the flag of Milei’s popularity and takes it to Brazil. If we look at the ranking of Latin American presidents, the Argentine president is not a prophet in his own land, he does not have the highest popularity of the highest-ranked presidents.
The public opinion consultancy CB is in charge of examining the ranking of presidents with the best public image in their countries, not outside their countries. According to the most recent survey, the ranking is headed by Daniel Noboa, the right-wing president of Ecuador, one of those cursed by Maduro along with Milei.
Read also: The complaint against Alberto Fernández, another example of the political role of cell phones
Next is Lula da Silva, who, although he is in decline, is second. Third is Luis Lacalle Pou, who is on the rise – also in an election year in Uruguay – and Javier Milei is the fourthThe fifth is Santiago Peña, the president of Paraguay.
It seems that the Argentine president has – as happens to so many presidents – more impact abroad than within his country, where Its image is striking not because it is high, but because it is stable.
It’s been a long time since he appeared in Argentina. A president who starts his term and arrives, six months later, with the same volumewith the same level of consensus from public opinion.
