The official candidate for president Argentina, Sergio Massacurrent Minister of Economy, insisted this Thursday, the last day of the electoral campaign, that if he is elected president in the second round next Sunday, on December 10 “a new stage begins” in the South American country.
Massa reiterated in this way that he is also a candidate who represents “the change”, like his contender, the far-right Javier Mileiin a speech to the businessmen of the Inter-American Council of Commerce and Production at a lunch organized at a hotel in Buenos Aires.
The candidate of Unión por la Patria (Peronism) is the current Minister of Economy of a country that last October reached 142.7% year-on-year inflation and suffers from more than 40% poverty.
Massa He is the leader of the ruling party, but seeks to distance himself from the lackluster management of Alberto Fernández and the figure of former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015), current vice president.
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“On December 10, I want to be the president who buryes the (ideological) rift,” Massa closed his speech, a president who “sits” businessmen at the table to “open more markets,” to “generate more work,” who “inaugurate a new stage in which dialogue is the brand” and “end the idea of the enemy friend”, of having to choose between the countryside and the industry, the interior or the city and understand that “the past is no longer discussed ”.
The minister will face the leader of Freedom Advancesan ‘outsider’ who calls for a choice between “continuity or change” and who, after reaching the runoff, obtained the support of former president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) and former presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich, third in the October general elections.
Massa He acknowledged that “after so many years of public life,” some people “may have doubts” about him and his ideas.
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Before being Minister of Economy (since July 2022), he was president of the Chamber of Deputies since 2019, national deputy between 2013 and 2017, mayor of the town of Tigre, in the province of Buenos Aires (2007-2008 and 2009- 2013); Chief of Staff of Cristina Fernández in 2008, and head of the social security organization -Anses- between 2002 and 2007, among other positions.
“It is key to have a country and a government that defends the industry,” that defends “participation in the markets and increases them,” Massa emphasized to the businessmen.
And he stressed that the “risks” of choosing Mileia candidate who proposes that the State not relate to “communist” countries, such as Brazil and China, Argentina’s two main trading partners, is the loss of activity and employment.
