Anecdotes from the inauguration of Milei: from the dogs on the staff to the song in the Rosada

From the dogs carved into the presidential cane to the ribald gesture of the former president (2007-2015) and former vice president, Cristina Fernandez: the day of inauguration of Javier Milei as new president of Argentina It was full of curiosities that made it an atypical ceremony.

Cristina’s ‘comb’

Fernández entered Congress, before the transfer of command, showing the middle finger of his right hand, what is popularly known in Argentina as “making a gesture.” ‘fuck you’” and in other countries as ‘peineta’.

In the video captured by television, it is not clear who the former president’s gesture was directed at, but it is presumed that she responded to some comment against her; In fact, as he left Congress, people shouted at him. “jam” (thief) from the balconies of the neighboring buildings.

Before the incoming ruler arrived, Fernández also “forgot” reading the resolution declaring the election of Milei as president, and at the end of the reading, many present in the Chamber of Deputies shouted: “Freedom, freedom!”

“Long live freedom!” and dogs

“Long live freedom” was the dedication that Milei stamped along with his signature in the Books of Honor of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, before taking the oath as the new president, leaving his campaign motto written in a public document.

In addition to the band, Milei received the presidential cane from Alberto Fernández, which was personalized with the engraving on his fist of the faces of his five mastiff dogs –“his four-legged children”as he calls them- and their names: Conan (now deceased), Murray, Milton, Robert and Lucas (cloned from the former’s genes).

The curiosity of the carving of the presidential cane gave rise to a moment of complicity with Cristina Fernández, and laughter, even more warmly than with her own vice president, Victoria Villarruel, and then a respectful greeting.

Leave the forum

The one who gave him the attributes of command was the outgoing Alberto Fernández, who entered the place winking at Milei, but ended up slipping away.

Fernández exchanged a few words after giving him the cane, then he took the initiative to greet Cristina Fernández, with whom he got along terribly – something that they have not hidden during his four years in office -, he left before signing the transfer, he had to return and again he did ‘exit the forum’.

Milei’s parents and the ‘first lady’

In one of the Congress boxes, Milei’s parents were applauding, from whom she says she suffered abuse, mistreatment and estrangement, and behind them was the girlfriend of the new president, actress Fátima Flórez.

His inseparable sister, Karina Milei, a victim like him of family abuse, was the one who accompanied him in a vehicle from the Libertador hotel – where he has been staying in recent weeks – to the Congress and then in a convertible car to the Casa Rosada, headquarters of the Executive. It was she who acted as ‘first lady’, dressed in white, and the one who held the presidential baton while her brother gave his first speech as head of state.

Street speech and the inevitable lion

Milei did not give his first speech as president in front of the Legislative Assembly, as is usually done, but from a platform installed on the steps of Congress and in front of a crowd, to show the opposition that he has the support of the people.

The image of the lion that characterizes it was present throughout the inauguration ceremony, since the cameras in charge of the official transmission focused on the lions of the statues that frame the Congress, the people carried yellow flags with the image of the lion, and the This same figure was lavished on the ‘merchandising’ items that were sold in the surrounding area.

When heading to the Casa Rosada, Milei got out of the car that was transporting him to pet a dog.

Already on the main balcony of the Casa Rosada, he began to sing “Panic Show”the great success of the group ‘hard rock’ Argentinean La Renga who has accompanied him since the beginning of his career for the Presidency of the Republic and in which the “lions”the animals associated with the libertarian.

No garbage

An image anecdotally illustrates this change of political era: the followers were in charge of collecting garbage from the square where they gathered.

As soon as the speeches to Congress and from the Casa Rosada ended, thousands of Milei supporters, like Japanese fans at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, took out bags to remove the waste scattered on the floor.