“We have a lot at stake here. Not only the next four years, but this is a path that we have been doing with Sergio for 10 years.” The speaker is a history of massism, who has accompanied the current Minister of Economy since 2013. In this tense wait, the last hours pass before the first official results are known.
But in the government bunker in the Chacarita neighborhood there is a certain expectation. The first comments, which they make with the recorder turned off, are that Sergio Massa and Javier Milei would be fighting for first place inch by inch. From La Libertad Avanza the signs are similar. They talk about the libertarian being first, with some advantage, but not enough to win in the first round.
The signs seen in the official environment speak to the fact that there is more faith in the environment than what happened in the PASO. The first representatives of the government (Matías Lammens and Paula Penacca) spoke at 6 p.m., well before what happened in August. And for a while before, people have been seen around Cultural Complex C, much more than what had happened in the primary elections. The noises of the militancy and the drums reach inside the bunker.
