By Alice Wright For Dailymail.Com and Perkin Amalaraj
17:44 31 Dec 2023, updated 18:24 31 Dec 2023
- Argentina’s president Javier Milei was seen sharing a very raunchy kiss with his ‘lioness’ girlfriend Fatima Florez after watching her new musical on Friday
- Milei made an impromptu speech on stage before engaging in the lengthy kiss
- The new president told the audience that difficult times were ahead as he embarks on his course of economic ‘shock treatment’
Argentina’s new president Javier Milei was seen sharing a very raunchy public kiss with his ‘lioness’ girlfriend Fatima Florez after watching her new musical on Friday.
The 53-year-old president joined Florez, wearing a shiny gold leotard with matching gloves, up on stage after the performance of her musical ‘Fatima 100%’.
The president arrived at the Roxy Theatre in Mar del Plata around 9:40pm local time after travelling on a commercial Aerolineas Argentinas flight, according to local news outlet Clarin.
Milei, who reportedly paid for the ticket to the event out of his own pocket, made an impromptu speech on stage before engaging in a lengthy kiss with Florez.
The president told the audience that difficult times were ahead for Argentina but that the country must move forward.
It is not the first time the couple have been seen kissing in public, showing some high profile PDA on live television after the polls closed in the country’s presidential runoff in November.
Milei was joined at the theatre by his sister Karina and his head of security, according to local news.
After her performance Florez, a popular comedian and impersonator, publicly thanked the president for attending and left with him shortly afterwards.
The play itself features imitations of Milei, Cristina Kirchner, Taylor Swift, Tina Turner, Liza Minelli, Mirtha Legrand, Susana Giménez and Carmen Barbieri, among others.
The couple have been seeing each other since 2022, after they met on a hugely popular talk show, two months before she separated from her then-husband.
During the interview, Fatima playfully told the politician: ‘You are too alone for your important role.’
In October, the pair returned to the chat show to confirm that they were dating.
Fatima explained: ‘We started talking on Instagram and we started seeing each other much later.
‘It came very naturally. It was very little by little. I was in Uruguay, working, and we started writing to each other.’
Elsewhere in the interview, Argentina’s new president said: ‘I am very in love’. The pair described their love as ‘exotic’.
Fatima then went on to explain how she officially separated from her husband on her birthday in February – likening it to the historic Battle of San Lorenzo in 1813.
Following the interview, Fatima went on to impersonate her new boyfriend in one of her shows.
Sharing a photo of herself backstage, Fatima – who was wearing a shaggy brown wig and bright blue contacts – wrote: ‘I AM YOUR LIONESS.’
During his short tenure Milei has already proved a divisive president recently announcing the country needs economic ‘shock treatment’ and has committed to a program of harsh austerity measures in a bid to cool inflation that was running at 143 percent in October.
On top of this, Argentina’s currency, the peso, is in long-term freefall, poverty levels have soared to 40% and the economy is in a deep recession, IMF data revealed.
‘The bottom line is that there is no alternative to austerity and there is no alternative to shock treatment,’ Milei said during his first speech as president.
‘We know that in the short term the situation will worsen. But then we will see the fruits of our efforts.’
‘There’s no money,’ Milei stated in previous interviews. ‘Fiscal balance is not up for discussion. Any minister who spends more, I will fire him.’
He also wants to reduce the number of ministries from 24 to eight, and has called for the elimination or subsuming of the ministries of education, social development, women, genders and diversity, and health.
One infamous video showed him tearing cards with the names of several ministries from a whiteboard, and throwing them away, saying: ‘The state is not the solution, it is the problem.’
He has taken bizarre stances on a range of issues, including the organ trade. The president said he was in favour of allowing the sale of organs between private parties, claiming: ‘it’s just another market.’
‘If women can have control over their bodies, why not everybody else,’ he also said.
He also says he has no issue with sex work being legal, previously saying: ‘I don’t see anything wrong with paying for sex. It’s a free transaction.’
He is also a climate change denier, and has on several occasions denied the existence of global warming, claiming the scientific community’s overwhelming acceptance that global warming and climate change are real and man-made problems are the result of socialistic interventions.
In a speech following his dramatic victory, he vowed that the ‘reconstruction of Argentina begins today’ while adding he would ‘drain the swamp’ in reference to stemming the influence of special interests and lobbyists.
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