Serge Massa knew how to have a good relationship with Mauricio Macri. One night, during the 2015 presidential campaign (a race in which the Tigrense was a favorite but began to lose ground until he was out of the ballotage), the PRO invited him to eat at his house with Juliana Awada. Massa went with his wife Malena Galmarini.
The austere menu was milanese with salad. The Tigrenses, accustomed to Peronist gatherings in which food abounds, were surprised by how frugal the menu was. When saying goodbye, before going to sleep, They passed by a local McDonald’s because they were hungry.
In Together they thanked the end of that year for the position of Massa, dividing peronism and allowing Macri, by a narrow margin, was imposed on Daniel Scioli (today ambassador to Brazil again after his brief stint at the Ministry of Development, another revenge for Massa) at the polls to become president.
And at the beginning of the Macri era, the relationship was good. Massa accompanied him to the Swiss summit in Davos, and was shown as a moderate opponent. Over time, Macri began to dislike the Tigrense’s ambition and nicknamed him “little advantage”: the Tigrense, as seen in recent weeks, “negotiates to the limit and always ask for something more“, they explain in the macrista orbit.
A nickname that still bothers the now superminister: “those who call me little advantage are afraid of me“, he defends himself. At the end of the mandate, Massa was a staunch opponent and his incorporation into the front of all It was key to defeating Macri. In his speeches this week, he confronted the former president who left his term with 55% inflation.
Of course, today he has the mission to deactivate a much worse bomb, in search of his revenge. Private consultants estimate that inflation in 2022 will be above 90%, and some others threaten a triple figure. The economists around Serge MassaSecondly, coincide with many of the recipes of the technicians of Together for Change: an adjustment to curb consumption and the price spiral.
by RN
