Buenos Aires, November 10, 2025 – Total News Agency (TNA) – A new evangelical figure is advancing with strength within the government of Javier Milei. According to official spokespeople, her loyalty to Javier and Karina Milei makes her an 'absolutely trustworthy, hardworking, and loyal piece,' in contrast to Vice President Victoria Villarruel, who is increasingly being sidelined from the presidential decision-making core. The eventual appointment of Márquez to a position of such magnitude would confirm the expansion of a new power actor: the evangelical movement, which has moved from the temples to official offices, and from religious preaching to direct political dispute. Márquez's arrival would represent the triumph of an evangelical bloc that, for the first time, forcefully penetrates the most sensitive spaces of power. However, the elected senator faces judicial inquiries into her past. This is Neuquén's Nadia Márquez, a national deputy and daughter of the vice president of the Christian Alliance of Evangelical Churches of the Republic of Argentina (Aciera), whose influence is growing vertiginously in the ruling party. All share a marked ideological affinity and absolute loyalty to the leadership of the Milei brothers. Márquez's family and religious structure has also prospered in her province. Her mother, Silvia Stekar, is the general director of the three educational levels. If her appointment to the Senate is confirmed, Márquez's figure would symbolize the consolidation of the most conservative wing of Mileism, a sector that combines religious discourse, political pragmatism, and growing influence in the state structure. Márquez has rejected these interpretations and maintains that her judicial situation is completely resolved. Beyond that precedent, the advance of evangelical power within the ruling party is visible. This statement reflects the weight that the religious movement has acquired as a privileged interlocutor of the Casa Rosada. Pastor Gabriel Ballerini, a leader of the sector known as 'blue handkerchiefs' and collaborator of philosopher Agustín Laje on the technopolitea.com platform, stated that they represent 'the conservative side of Milei's libertarianism.' Advisors to the head of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem, admit that her eventual appointment to the Senate would give her national projection and position her to dispute the governorship of Neuquén in 2027. Márquez's possible appointment would imply displacing the current head of the provisional presidency of the Senate, Bartolomé Abadala, who had skillfully navigated the internal tensions between the President and his Vice, Victoria Villarruel. Her name is strongly sounded to occupy the provisional presidency of the Senate, a key post in the line of succession and in the parliamentary dynamics of the Executive Branch. The article indicates that the evangelical landing in the presidential environment responds to an ideological turn promoted by Karina Milei, the influential Secretary General of the Presidency. Her electoral victory in Neuquén surprised even the strategists of Karina Milei, and she now profiles herself as a leader of absolute loyalty to the President and his sister. The Jesús Rey Church —directed by the senator's parents— and her husband, Matías Riffo, who serves as a pastor and teacher, also depend on this structure. This current attempts to reconcile economic liberalism with conservative social morality, a political experiment unprecedented in the country, according to Antonio D'Eramo in iProfesional. In this context, Nadia Márquez embodies the figure of the new religious power within La Libertad Avanza. Sources close to Karina Milei recognize that 'for the Government, a meeting with Aciera is more important than a meeting with the Argentine Industrial Union.' In Congress, a group of legislators identified with this movement has already consolidated: Gastón Riesco and Soledad Monda for Neuquén, María Frías for Chubut, Mónica Becerra for San Luis, and Miguel Rodríguez for Tierra del Fuego. Although she benefited from the suspension of the trial on probation and was acquitted in 2016, the existence of that cause could complicate her provincial ambitions, since in Neuquén the 'Clean Slate Law' is in effect. Since 1989, the Neuquén Evangelical Mutual Association (AMEN) and the Baptist College dependent on that mutual have received state funds in the form of subsidies for teaching staff. Between 1999 and 2004, she was investigated for issuing false titles in two tertiary institutes in Neuquén.
