A previous career as a tantric sex coach and a GHOST DOG he chats to for advice... the very colorful life of Argentina's new president Javier Milei

Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina Sunday evening, with the extreme-libertarian tantric sex guru who has no political experience likened to Donald Trump.

Earlier this year, DailyMail.com published an in-depth look at the new leader and his very colorful life, which we have reproduced to commemorate Milei's historic win...

There’s never a dull moment with former self-described ‘tantric sex coach’ and now Argentine presidential frontrunner Javier Milei.

Indeed, Milei – who is also a prominent economist and radio chat-show host – has spoken about his preference for threesomes, why he believes poor people should be free to sell their body parts, and how he enjoys communicating via telepathy with his dead dog for political advice.

The far-Right libertarian is also an admirer of Donald Trump – and it certainly shows: the outspoken firebrand has rapidly risen to prominence vowing to ‘kick politicians out on their asses’ and railing against the elite ‘caste’ he says rules Argentina.

The populist showman and daytime TV star, whose frenetic rallies and social media rants also evoke The Donald, dismisses global warming as a ‘socialist lie’ and says he would abolish much of the country’s government right down to its beleaguered central bank.

Argentina has a weakness for extreme leaders, and the country – an economic basket-case where annual inflation rate shockingly stands at over 115 percent – may be about to vote in its wildest yet.

Milei has just pulled off a shock victory in the primary round of voting ahead of next month’s election, in large part due to support from young voters who are so disenchanted with more ‘conventional’ politicians that they have turned to a man whose recent biography was titled El Loco (The Madman).

A political unknown until only three years ago, Milei, 52, was elected to Argentina’s parliament in December 2021 as a member of La Libertad Avanza (‘Freedom Advances’).

He prefers to call himself an anarcho-capitalist, which means he’d like to rip up as much government intervention in people’s lives as he can and leave it all to the free market.

‘If I had to choose between the state and the mafia, I would choose the mafia,’ he once said. ‘Because the mafia has codes, the mafia adapts, the mafia doesn't lie. And above all, the mafia competes.’

His so-called ‘chainsaw plan’ to slash the bloated state includes getting rid of Argentina’s public health and education systems along with shuttering ten out of 18 government departments.

Milei is also so anti-progressive he has repeatedly taken aim – rather bizarrely – at Pope Francis, his compatriot, calling him a ‘f***ing communist’, ‘communist turd’ and the ‘representative of the evil one on Earth’ in brutal social media posts, simply because of his perceived support for ‘social justice’ and policies to help the poor.

‘Jesus didn’t pay taxes,’ Milei memorably tweeted.

His private persona appears to match the public image of an unpredictable eccentric.

At home he keeps four 200lb English Mastiffs. All named after famous right-wing economists – and each one cloned from a fifth, now-dead dog named Conan (after the Barbarian).

A recent biography by journalist Juan Luis González revealed Milei studies telepathy in his spare time and has a medium to ‘communicate’ with Conan, who died in 2017, asking him for advice on political matters.

Astonishingly, Milei hasn’t denied the claims. ‘What I do in my house is my business,’ he told a Spanish newspaper.

Not that he’s usually so secretive.

Milei, who is single and has never married, proudly says he used to be an instructor of tantric sex – a slow, meditative form of intercourse based on Eastern philosophies where the end goal is not orgasm but enjoyment of the process – and could go a full three months without ejaculating.

He’s also talked openly about having threesomes.

Even so, he has called Conan the greatest love of his life, an animal he so cherished that during a financially tough period he survived only on pizza so Conan had enough to eat.

The dog is closely followed in Milei’s affections by his younger sister, Karina, who he has vowed to make his First Lady if he becomes president.

Certainly, it all sounds rather odd – but if anything, Milei revels in the lunacy.

When a political opponent called him ‘a disheveled panelist who screams on a stage and sleeps with eight dogs and his sister’ during a debate, Milei’s only response was to say: ‘I don’t have eight dogs’.

And then there’s his hair…

As a teenager, Milei sang in ‘Everest’, a rock band that knocked out Rolling Stones covers. He still behaves like a wannabe rock star now, strutting around on the election trail in a black leather jacket shaking an unruly mane of thick black hair that is so peculiar it has earned him a nickname: The Wig.

Hardly flattering – but perhaps an improvement on ‘The Madman’, a sobriquet which originated at school.

Milei says he never combs the hairdo and that only his party’s vice president, Lilia Lemoine, a keen cosplayer, is authorized to style it. She also does his makeup: Milei is so vain he refuses to appear in backlit photos as they show up his double chin. Ms Lemoine employs a ‘contouring’ technique similar to the one promoted by the Kardashians.

Milei’s absurdity may have something to do with his unhappy childhood. He grew up in Buenos Aires where his father was a bus driver and later a transport sector businessman. Milei claims his parents, Norberto and Alicia, physically and verbally abused him when he was young. As an adult, he didn’t speak to them for a decade. ‘They are dead to me,’ he has said.

At school, he reportedly had no friends, and often boiled over in notorious angry outbursts.

He later studied to be an economist but found the dry life of academia wasn’t for him.

Then, around five years ago, he suddenly tried his luck on Argentina’s beloved daytime TV chat shows – and producers quickly realized viewers couldn’t get enough of his demented claims about his sexual stamina and his brazen political opinions.

Raised a Catholic and now said to be converting to Judaism, his views on abortion are extreme: wanting to ban terminations in every case except when a mother’s life is in danger.

Though, while he may be staunchly opposed to pro-choice views when it comes to pregnancy, he's proposed a controversial 'market mechanisms' to deal with long waiting lists for transplants, arguing that organs are a person’s property to sell as they choose.

He wants to see Argentina ditch the peso and adopt the US dollar as its national currency, slash taxes, privatize state-owned companies and scrap subsidies.

As for foreign policy, he believes his natural allies would be the US and Israel, saying: ‘I don’t want to have anything to do with the communists of Cuba, China and North Korea.’

On the ever thorny question of the Falkland Islands, which Argentina unsuccessfully tried to grab from Britain in 1982 during the prime ministership of Margaret Thatcher, one of his icons, Milei proposes copying the UK’s transfer of Hong Kong to China in 1997.

‘It has to be a solution that satisfies [the UK], that satisfies Argentina and that satisfies those who live on the islands,’ he told the El Pais newspaper.

That sounds refreshingly reasonable compared to the cynical saber-rattling of previous Argentine presidents - though given Falkland Islanders overwhelmingly say they want to remain a British overseas territory, a Hong Kong-style handover seems most unlikely.

Falkland Islanders may then be safe from rule under Milei - but what of their neighboring Argentines?

Perhaps only a seance with the all-knowing canine spirit of Conan the Barbarian can answer that.