Nestor Kirchner he predicted it back in 2008. “You are going to arrive, because you have ambition, friends with money and, above all, because you are a son of a bitch,” he told him while inviting him to try the comfort of Rivadavia’s chair for a while in the main office of the Casa Rosada. He saw pasta Serge Massawho was in his mid-thirties and had just taken over as head of Cabinet of Cristina Kirchnerand that he did not want to stop until he became President, as his host.
Kirchner had achieved it a few years before, almost of carom, when nobody bet a peso for him and very few knew him. But he had what it took, ambition. He convinced Duhalde to accept him as his dolphin, he got 22 percent against Menem in the first lap and finished in the pink House when the Riojan got off the second. He was an almost unknown president, but at the same time a fearsome power animal.
Massa also bets to arrive by carom, with a push of chance. He has just taken the government almost by storm, pushed by the need of the rest of the members of the Peronist coalition, and shows himself to be the last bullet in the face of the unstoppable crisis. The logical thing would be that, with an economy in a tailspin and a dollar through the roof, his chances would end in nothing, and in that case, so would his career. But what if he does well? Nestor’s prophecy, if luck helps and the savior’s suit is not too big for him, could end up materializing.
Massa arrives at his new superministerial position like a firefighter in the middle of the flames. For the first time, Cristina Kirchner and Alberto Fernandez they decide to hand over the rudder to him.
by RN
