Argentine President Javier Milei’s “explosive” love life has imploded after he blamed work pressures for his breakup with his famous “lion” girlfriend.
The libertarian populist was last seen along with Fátima Florez, 43, in Miami on Wednesday, when riots broke out in the streets of Buenos Aires in protest of public spending cuts in a country where 40 percent live in the poverty.
They boasted about their ‘exotic’ relationship after going public with Milei, 53, in July last year, insisting ‘I’m very in love’ with the Argentine actress and comedian.
But he said their conflicting schedules had put too much pressure on the couple when he announced the end of their relationship on Saturday.
‘As a result of the overwhelming professional success that Fátima, of whom I am very proud, is experiencing, she has received numerous job offers to work in both the United States and Europe,’ he wrote on social media.
Argentine President Javier Milei, 53, met his girlfriend Fátima Florez, 43, when they appeared together on a popular talk show in December 2022.
The president, 53, joined Florez, wearing a sparkly gold leotard and matching gloves, on stage after the performance of her musical ‘Fátima 100%’ in December.
Milei, who reportedly paid for the event out of her own pocket, gave an impromptu speech on stage before giving Florez a long kiss.
‘This, added to the complex task that I face today and that the Argentines have entrusted to me, has led us to live separately, making it impossible for us to have the relationship that we would like to have, despite how much we would like to have it. How much we love each other.
‘That’s why we decided to end our relationship and maintain a bond of friendship given how much we feel for each other and how much we love, respect and admire each other.’
Florez has yet to publicly respond to the end of the relationship that sparked when they appeared together on a popular talk show in December 2022, two months before she separated from her then-husband of 22 years.
During the interview, Fatima jokingly told the politician: “You are too alone for your important role.”
In October, the couple returned to the chat show to confirm they were dating.
Florez explained: ‘We started talking on Instagram and started seeing each other a lot later.
‘It was very natural. 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’m very in love.” The couple described their love as “exotic.”
A pro-Trump libertarian with no prior government experience and a resume that includes work as a “tantric sex coach” was elected president promising to end “Marxist indoctrination.”
Milei, who often disguises himself as his superhero alter ego ‘General AnCap’, short for anarcho-capitalist (pictured), became known by furiously denouncing the ‘parasitic political caste’ on television shows.
Milei, right, who recently revealed that he was of Jewish ancestry, was in Miami as a guest of the city’s Chabad Lubavitch Jewish community.
The couple was photographed leaving the event together just three days before their split.
Fatima then went on to explain how she officially separated from her husband on his birthday in February, comparing it to the historic Battle of San Lorenzo in 1813.
Florez, who is one of her country’s most popular celebrities and has 1.4 million followers on Instagram, said in January that she was “hooked on Javier.”
“Even when we are far away, we are very close,” he said.
‘And when we’re close, we’re close, we’re explosive, explosive, you know what I mean?’
The couple shared a very raunchy public kiss in December when he joined her on stage at the premiere of her musical comedy ‘Fátima 100 percent, featuring impressions of Milei, Cristina Kirchner, Taylor Swift, Tina Turner, Liza Minelli, Mirtha Legrand, Susana Giménez. and Carmen Barbieri, among others.
Sharing a photo of herself backstage, Fatima, who was wearing a shaggy brown wig and bright blue contact lenses, wrote: “I AM YOUR LIONESS.”
But Milei has been dogged by civil unrest since taking office in December, with 290 percent inflation and a 50 percent devaluation of the Argentine peso.
Protesters threw stones at police, who responded with water cannon and tear gas when unrest broke out in the center of the Argentine capital last week.
Milei eliminated energy and transportation subsidies, suspended public projects, and stopped making payments to provincial governments.
On April 3, workers were notified that they were being laid off from their jobs at multiple state agencies, including the economy, energy, and social security ministries.
Milei has committed to reducing the number of ministries from 24 to eight, and has called for eliminating or subsuming the ministries of Education, Social Development, Women, Gender and Diversity, and Health.
One infamous video showed him tearing cards with the names of various ministries off a blackboard and throwing them, saying: “The state is not the solution, it is the problem.”
He has taken strange stances on a variety of issues, including the organ trade. The president said he was in favor of allowing the sale of organs among private parties, stating: “it is just another market.”
Members of social organizations confront police during a demonstration against the recent economic measures introduced by the government of President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. At least two police officers and a media worker were injured and 11 people were arrested.
A protester throws a rock at a demonstration over government job cuts in Buenos Aires
Protesters clashed with riot police in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, on Wednesday.
Protesters marched this Wednesday along Avenida 9 de Julio, the main avenue of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, to denounce job cuts in the public sector and improvements in soup kitchens.
“If women can have control over their bodies, why not everyone else?” she also stated.
He also says he has no problem with sex work being legal, previously saying: “I don’t see anything wrong with paying for sex.” It’s a free transaction.’
Earlier this month he reiterated Argentina’s “unbreakable claim” to the Falkland Islands while attending a ceremony to mark the 42nd anniversary of his country’s failed invasion of the United Kingdom’s South Atlantic territory.
He promised to draw up a diplomatic “roadmap” for the UK to hand over sovereignty and harshly criticized his predecessors for “mere words in international forums with no impact on reality”.