Perón and Evita & Milei and Fátima: similarities and differences between the two pairs of presidents and actresses

Javier Milei He is not the first Argentine president to have a relationship with an actress. The most famous case in our history is that of Juan Domingo Perón (1895-1974) with Eva Duarte (1919-1952), stage and radio theater actress, who became a real support in her husband’s political career.

Actually There are few, if any, similarities in the relationship between Milei (53) and Fátima Florez (42) with Perón and Evita.

The current president of Argentina met Fatima in the heat of this year’s national campaign. News initially greeted with a certain skepticism. Fatima, recently separated from a 20-year marriage, and Milei, who seemed like a recalcitrant bachelor, met on Mirtha Legrand’s program. It all seemed to have the feel of a movie, but it wasn’t, it was real life.

Eva Duarte met Perón in 1944when he was secretary of Labor and Welfare of the dictatorship presided over by General Ramírez, during an event to help the victims of the San Juan earthquake that year. After a two-year relationship, they married on June 4, 1946.; soon after, Eva becomes first lady and puts her artistic career aside in which, although he did not distinguish himself, his interpretations were correct, according to some critics of the time.

Everything indicates it Eva had more money as a political leader than to continue with her artistic vocation. That interest in politics had already been demonstrated in 1943, when she founded with other colleagues the Association of Radio Argentina, a union that elected her president.

The new couple, for now without First Lady

Milei’s bond with Fatima, in addition to being very new, has some particular aspects. While the president was immersed in a tiring campaign that had to be decided in the second round, Fátima, an actress and lookalike with an important and public career spanning over 15 years, was preparing to direct a show in the Mar del Plata season which, before the its premiere was already considered one of the highlights of this summer.

Many obligations make it difficult to reconcile agendas and even more so when on the other side there is the president of the nation who, just as he promised during his last visit to La noche de Mirtha (by El Trece, December 16), went to see it at the theater.

Originally the hearing should have taken place on Wednesday 27th, but it was moved to Friday 29th: Milei not only went, but He went on stage, was applauded by most of the audience and sealed his love with a passionate kiss to his girlfriend that went viral. in an instant.

A courtship of separate homes, of two self-sufficient people, determined that the position of First Lady was deserted although, when they are together, protocol places Fatima in that place. A protocol that healthily adapts to current times, even when the president is accompanied by his people sister Karinaright hand of the president.

Her battle as First Lady

The Perón-Duarte couple was the meeting of two people who supported each other. Eva was one of the pillars, together with the trade unionist Cipriano Reyesof the famous October 17, and his political activity was decisive for Perón’s rise to government. From her role as First Lady, she imposed legal equality between spouses and the sharing of parental responsibility.among other initiatives.

In 1948, she founded the Eva Duarte Foundation and, in 1949, the Peronist Women’s Party. He has always had a strong drive towards the political field, where he has left his mark through various initiatives.

In 1951, heThe CGT proposed Eva as Perón’s vice president for the following year’s electionsHowever, in August he resigned from the candidacy due to internal strife within Peronism and due to his advanced illness. cervical cancer, which would end her life in July 1952. They had been married for just over six years.

The role of Fátima is very different and nothing indicates (for now) that the actress will leave her business to accompany her partner., nor that he is particularly interested in participating in the field of politics. Anyway Monday 18th December She made her debut as First Lady during her visit to the Los Piletones dining roomFrom Margherita Barrientosat Villa Soldati, a meeting that he had promised the social activist during the foundation’s annual dinner.

Milei-Florez doesn’t appear to have any plans to take the relationship to a higher level of commitment at the moment. They feel comfortable and when Milei talks about marriage she says “I don’t believe in lifetime contracts” and children “I already have four legs”.

Isabelita: Another artist in Perón’s life

It is clear that Perón would have some soft spot for the denizens of spectacle. In his exile, around February 1956, in Panama, he met his future wife, the dancer María Estela Martínez.known artistically as “Isabelita” who, shortly after, left Joe’s Herald Ballet to follow Perón.

Isabelita came to integrate the Perón-Perón formula, in 1973, that is, she did not occupy the position of First Lady, but that of vice president. After the death of her husband He succeeded him as president until 24 March 1976.. They were married for 13 years, between 1961 and 1974.

An opera singer as First Lady

Another case, but at the dawn of democracy, was that of Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear (1968-1942) married to the Portuguese soprano Regina Pacini (1871-1965). A talented opera singer of enormous importance in the Old Continent, with performances in Italy, England, Russia, Spain and Poland, among other countries. He shared the stage at Covent Garden in London with the famous tenor Enrico Caruso..

During a trip to the Río de la Plata in 1899, he performed at the Teatro Solís in Montevideo and the Teatro San Martín in Buenos Aires, where he met Alvear. In 1907, At the height of her career they get married and she abandons her business to dedicate herself to married life.. During World War I, Alvear was Argentine ambassador to Paris and upon his return to Argentina won the presidency of the UCR. Between 1922 and 1928, Regina Pacini was First Lady, from where she developed strong charitable activities. In 1938 she founded the Casa del Teatro.