The former official candidate for the Argentine Presidency, will continue as Minister of Economy and established a transition team to support the president, in his contacts with the elected president, as reported this Monday by official sources.

Sources from the Economy Ministry reported on the meeting that the head of the Treasury Palace He continued this Monday with his closest collaborators to establish a work team to help the Peronist president in his transition with the head of the libertarian Executive who will take office on December 10.

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On the eve, and after acknowledging his defeat against the leader of Freedom Advances (LLA), Massa said he was ending “a stage” from his “political life“, while close sources told EFE that he considered asking for a license, but that he was not going to “make any decision” until “Let Alberto and Milei meet”.

The economic transition team will be headed by the vice minister of Economy, Gabriel Rubinstein; the chief of advisors and interlocutor with the International Monetary Fund, Leonardo Madcur; the Secretary of the Treasury, Raul Rigo; and the president of the Central Bank, Miguel Pesce.

This decision was the result of a meeting in the Buenos Aires town of San Fernando.

The former candidate plans measures to contain possible exchange rate and inflationary pressures when local markets open this Tuesday.

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Hours after the electoral setback in which Javier Milei he took about eleven points over his rival, Sergio Massa asked “responsibility” for what happens this week on an economic level, while the libertarian affirmed that the current Government must respond for the situation in the country until the change of command.

Despite the need to pave a path for the transition that the South American country requires, LLA issued a statement in which they reported that there is no “no meeting planned” between Alberto Fernandez and Milei.

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