For the first time since taking office, the president Javier Milei will be godfather of a seventh male child. The baby’s name is Noah Portillo and was born on Tuesday at the Regional Hospital of Gallegos River.
The mother, Mirta Portil, native of Missions, He had moved 20 years ago to the capital of Santa Cruz because the dry climate helped cure her first son’s respiratory problems, Adam, who is 18 years old today.
Adam was born in Misiones, but the rest of his siblings were born in Patagonia: Ivan, of 16, Tiago of 12, Aaron, out of 10, Ezel, of 8, and David, of 2.
The doctors at the health center informed him Portil which, according to the provisions of the Presidential Patronage Acthas the power to request that the president be the godfather of his sonhence The institution has already initiated the corresponding procedures.
“I was told that they are making contact with the President, so he could be the godson.”said the 41-year-old woman in statements to a radio station in Misiones.
And she added with a laugh: “We didn’t expect it to be all boys. I could say that we reached seven children looking for a little sister for them.. But that’s it, I already realized that I’m not for the girl.”
In the event of agreeing to go to the baptism, Milei, who cannot refuse to be the child’s godfather, must travel to the city of Santa Cruz.
Javier Milei will sponsor a seventh son: what the law says
From 1983 to the present, Presidents never attended the baptisms of their godchildren, although there are some exceptions. For example, on October 26, 1996, Mateo Cagliari was baptized at the Quinta de Olivos and it was then-President Carlos Menem who offered himself to the family as godfather, months before the baby was born.
Law 20.843 on “Presidential Sponsorship” includes a scholarship to assist the godson’s studies until the end of the university period. “From the promulgation of this law, every person, regardless of age, who has been sponsored by the head of the Executive Branch, will have the right to have the national State guarantee free completion of primary, secondary, university or special level studies that they take in public educational establishments,” the law states.
In this regard, it instructs the Executive to invest “the annual sum necessary for the Granting of scholarships instituted by the previous article”, which must contemplate “the provision of books and supplies and everything that is inherent to the scholarship holder’s accommodation, food and recreation“.
According to the regulations, the Scholarships “will be made effective monthlywith imputation to the specific credits that are opportunely determined in the General Budget of the National Public Administration.”
In addition, according to tradition, he will be awarded a commemorative gold medal. And the candidates to receive the Presidential Godfather/Godmother will have the right to the benefit, even when the baptism religious was not Catholic.
Likewise, the head of the National Executive Branch “may designate the official who will represent him/her at the religious ceremony of baptism. The parents of the godson/goddaughter may propose another person from their family or close friend to represent him/her, without this preventing him/her from receiving the benefits of Presidential Godfather/Godmother.”
Source: Ambito
