If Mercedes Sampietro told Gary Cooper that you are in heaven that the love of his 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 – “Argentina’s glorious change”. Exchange? What have we missed? Milei doesn’t seem to be an example of anything, not even holding a proposition or opinion for more than five minutes. We just saw him bringing alfajores to Pope Francis and inviting him to visit Argentina, when his words still resonate calling him an “imbecile” or being “the evil one”, apart from considering him the friend of dictatorships. Just as we heard him loudly announcing that he would dollarize his country’s economy knowing that there were no dollars in the state coffers.
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 this man who always seems to have just gotten out of bed. But these voters are beginning to see that it is a commercial that sells balances without quality control. It is not even clear that he can reduce the army of civil servants that the country has, since the Congress rejected the scrapping law of the State. And of the authorization of the sale of organs, as if the human body were a spare parts store, which was the star proposal of the campaign, for the moment we have heard nothing.
I don’t know if Ayuso needed to take Milei as a flag. The president of the Community of Madrid has a life of her own, apart from even her party and its leader. Surely this makes her a person with enough interest not to fall for characters that will end up giving for a Netflix series. In the Galician campaign, Ayuso has used tweet language, easy to digest for audiences. But this from the anarcho-syndicalist Milei is a poorly prepared dish, which is hard to swallow and not only for vegan audiences.
Ayuso has walked all over Galicia and, if Rueda gets an absolute majority, success will be marked. Otherwise, he can always blame the dead on Feijóo, who is the Galician of sorts. But his praise of Milei has been an eccentricity and more than one has started to tremble.
