There are only five days left for Argentinians to go to the polls to elect the new President of the Nation and the ruling party is preparing for an intense week in which the central objective will be to obtain the necessary votes to win in the first round or, at least, enter the runoff with the libertarian Javier Milei, whom Massa chose as the candidate to confront in this final sprint. This Tuesday will be the closing of the UxP campaign in the province of Buenos Aires and, on the stage of the Arsenal de Sarandí field, the protagonists will be the candidates for president, Sergio Massa, and for governor, Axel Kicillof. Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will not be present, nor will President Alberto Fernández, who is on tour in China. “The focus is Axel and Sergio because with both of them we are going to win the province and the country,” the vice president’s closest entourage told Página/12.
The ruling party started the week by sharing a video of the presidential candidate with a child with autism, Ian Moche, whom Massa went to visit at his house, along with the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo de Pedro, to “chat about autism and disability.” to build a friendlier society. This Monday, meanwhile, the candidate for President was in San Luis, as part of a federal tour that he undertook last week and that took him, among other provinces, to San Juan and Mendoza. There he participated in the closing ceremony of the provincial campaign.
Over the weekend, Massa dedicated himself to giving television interviews and on Wednesday he will participate in the closure at the City of Buenos Aires level, with Leandro Santoro, at the Luna Park theater. The objective that the ruling party has in mind at the national level for this Sunday will be, at least, to obtain 33 percent of the votes to, in this way, be able to enter the runoff with Milei.
Regarding the closure of the province of Buenos Aires, Kicillof expressed that “the event is very important because it is October 17 and all the expressions of the union movement will be there, also all the candidates and the candidate for president, Sergio Massa and the mayors of the entire province”. Along these lines, he said in dialogue with El Destape that “a closing in the province of Buenos Aires on October 17 with the candidate for President of our space is a very good synthesis and a clean and jerk that gives us a lot of energy.”
He also mentioned CFK’s participation in the campaign. Kicillof said that “everything that is discussed in this campaign, such as the exchange rate regimes, such as what Massa proposes about the government of national unity, among other things, resonates with interventions that CFK had been making.” “She gave decisive conceptual markers to give density to what is being discussed today,” he added and specified that “CFK has a leading role, but when or how it appears is up to her to decide. We are approaching an election with a strengthened unity, that is the important thing.” “.
Mario Secco, mayor of Ensenada, and one of those who was in the organization of the provincial closure along with the host, the mayor of Avellaneda, Jorge Ferraresi, said early Monday that the vice president was not going to participate in the event because “if she appears We started talking about her and not about the candidates. He added that appearing or not “is her decision,” and that “the moment will be seen where she has to get out of it.” Secco stressed that the ruling party reaches October 22 in unity and that that is what is important. “At PASO we arrived confused. Now it’s something else. Sergio has demonstrated his ability to be a candidate and that has gone down very well and people are supporting him,” he indicated.
“We have a president”
From the bunker on Miter Street, in terms of the discursive line, they came out to reinforce the message that Massa “has the profile of the President that Argentina needs at this time of crisis.” They highlight as axes that: “Massa unites, adds, integrates – and they give examples of his sayings about a government of national unity -; that Massa works and resolves – they cite the economic measures he took in this section of the campaign after the STEP–, and that Massa proposes, thinks, imagines, and marks his ideas in the area of security and in the export plan.”
Finally, they highlight that Massa “is the only candidate capable of overcoming the rift.” Along these lines, the official strategy is to confront Milei squarely and say that, unlike the libertarian, the UxP candidate “has stability, seriousness, serenity, firmness and preparation.”
Several pro-government leaders on Monday replicated that campaign message. One of them was the governor of Catamarca Raúl Jalil who expressed that Massa “is the only sensible candidate who has a country project, who really knows the territory and is not a virtual construction of social networks.” With the concept of fully confronting the libertarian, he added: “We cannot have a president with a denialist profile who attacks the provinces.” Jalil said that “it is important to have in the coming years a president who proposes a new time to be able to overcome the rift.”
The senator close to the vice president, Juliana Di Tullio, joined in and, in radio statements, expressed that the candidate for president of Unión por la Patria “has the strength to be a government of national unity, which is what is needed” and assured that “he is going to be the President of the workers, because the salary must be recovered.” “He is the only one who can wear the President’s suit,” she concluded.
2023-10-17 07:40:55
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