“Sergio is very downcast. They threw him the Senate. But he is very bad, ”said a reference from the Renewal Front close to the Minister of Economy last night. Sergio Massa he had played his cards until the last moment to be a candidate for president. Raúl Jalil and Gerardo Zamorawho visited the president Alberto Fernandez to ask him to mediate to lower the candidacy of Daniel Scioli in pursuit of a unity candidacy for Massa, they bounced with both the president and the vice president.
Cristina Kirchner preferred to anoint Wado de Pedro, in whom he trusts, one chance of a victory with Massa president. “Inflation is going to go down, and the gap too. But not because of his management, ”says the same reference from the economic cabinet. Massa was convinced that he had a chance. He had insisted to Cristina that with him, Unión por la Patria could even be the space with the most votes in the PASO. His team held, with a high degree of ingenuitythat the formula with Wado de vice was closed since the beginning of the year.
If at any time the vice president and head honcho of space had doubts as to whether enthroning Massa was the best option, this was dissipated with the bad economic results. Finally they offer Massawhom he keeps as an ally anyway, what you think is worth. A seat in the senate for the province of Buenos Aires that he will surely achieve, even if the pro-government front loses the Buenos Aires election. And places on the lists for his court, the management that kept the Renovation Front active in the last hours, where Cecilia Mureau was the protagonist.
Meanwhile, Massa mulled over his own anger, leveraged by Malena Galmarini. The massismo had threaded along with the presidential candidacy, a consolation prize: the vice-government for the wife of the minister. Finally, he will go through the Tigre mayor’s office, in an internship with Julio Zamora. Around the Governor Axel Kicillof They say it was never an option. They strongly prefer Veronica Magario with the votes provided by La Matanza. Massa will have to settle for places on the lists, and go to the bottom with Máximo and Cristina.
The option for the minister is to kick the board. Leaving the super ministry could put Argentina’s fragile economy in danger of bursting. A double-edged threat that would damage the death front, but could end up as an indelible stain on the political career of the referent of the Renovation Front. With pragmatism he will surely accept his lot. The bench in the Senate ensures a relevant place to weave agreements and rebuild itself as interlocutor of a post-Kirchnerist Peronism as it did in 2015.
