If Mercedes Sampietro fabled in Gary Cooper that you are in heaven that the passion of her life had been the actor from Montana, Isabel Díaz Ayuso has done something similar with Javier Milei in the Galician electoral campaign, to the point of asking for Galicia – and for Spain – “the glorious change of Argentina”. Change? What have we missed? It doesn’t seem like Milei is an example of anything, not even of maintaining a proposal or opinion beyond five minutes. We have just seen him bringing alfajores to Pope Francis and inviting him to visit Argentina, when his words calling him an “imbecile” or “the evil one” still resonate, apart from accusing him of being a friend of dictatorships. Just as we heard him announce loudly that he was going to dollarize his country’s economy, knowing that there were no dollars in the State treasury.
It is true that there are 166,000 Galicians in Argentina who can vote in these elections and that many did so three months ago for that man who always looks like he just got out of bed. But those voters are beginning to see that he is a salesman who sells balances without quality control. It is not even clear that he can reduce the army of civil servants that the country has, since Congress rejected his law to dismantle the State. And about the authorization of the sale of organs as if the human body were a junk store, the star proposal of his campaign, at the moment we know nothing.
I don’t know if Ayuso needed to take Milei as his flag. The president of the Community of Madrid has a life of her own, even apart from her party and her leader. Surely this makes her a person with enough interest not to get close to characters that she will end up giving to a Netflix series. In the Galician campaign, Ayuso has used a Twitter language that is easy for audiences to digest. But what about the anarcho-syndicalist Milei is a poorly prepared dish, which is difficult to swallow not only for vegan audiences.
Ayuso has walked from end to end through Galicia and, if Rueda obtains the absolute majority, success will be achieved. Otherwise, he can always put the blame on Feijóo, who is the fetén Galician. But his praise of Milei has been an eccentricity and more than one has started to tremble.
