Lilia Lemoine
Lilia Adela Bolukalo Lemoine (born 7 November 1980) is an Argentinian politician, cosplayer and makeup artist. She has served since 2023 as a National Deputy of Argentina elected as a member of La Libertad Avanza representing Buenos Aires Province.
Biography
[edit]Lemoine was born in José León Suárez city, San Martín, into a middle-class family and worked in many companies in costumer support before starting as a cosplayer and makeup artist at the age of 29.[1]
She was a candidate for the Argentinian Congress for the first time in 2019 supporting José Luis Espert, but she was not elected at that time. She met Javier Milei through his sister Karina and started helping Milei in his presentations on TV and theater. She dated him for a short period. She was elected as a deputy to the National Congress on the 2023 Argentine general election.[2]
She is against the legalization of abortion in Argentina. On that issue, she said that she wanted to make a draft of a law to allow all men to renounce paternity obligations since women can abort. This statement was widely criticized and denounced as unconstitutional. She made a TV pilot about conspiracy theories and has endorsed various conspiracy theories, including anti-vaccination, Flat Earth, that the Apollo landings were fake, and that US Navy admiral Richard E. Byrd was taken into the center of the Hollow Earth by aliens in 1947.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Third party, far-right candidates in Argentina shake up the status quo: cosplayer Lilia Lemoine is at the center of it all". Orato. 27 October 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ "Lilia Lemoine confesó que tuvo un romance con Javier Milei: "Me enamoró su inteligencia"". Perfil. 5 March 2024. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ "Quién es Lilia Lemoine, la candidata a diputada de Milei que propuso un controvertido proyecto sobre la paternidad". La Nación. 18 October 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ "Lilia Lemoine asumió como secretaria de la Comisión de Ciencias: el video que se viralizó para criticar su nombramiento". La Nación. 8 May 2024. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
- 1980 births
- 21st-century Argentine women politicians
- 21st-century Argentine politicians
- Anti-vaccination activists
- Argentine conspiracy theorists
- Argentine YouTubers
- Cosplayers
- Living people
- Make-up artists
- Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Province
- Moon landing conspiracy theorists
- Flat Earth proponents
- Spanish-language YouTubers