Campaign strategies in Argentina cover everything and candidates from all political spaces have a hectic agenda to collect votes. However, what Sergio Massarepresentative of Unión por la Patria, exceeds all types of limits because he assured that he met with the Father Bachia village priest from La Matanza, who died in 2020 due to Covid-19.
The one who exposed the Minister of Economy was Carlos Pagni in his LN+ editorial, where he shared a fragment of an interview they conducted with the candidate. There he tries to humanize himself and to demonstrate that he reaches all sectors of society he stated that “he was drinking mate with Toto and with several of the priests, with Tano, Bach and with Pepe too”
«It’s for a joke because Father Bachi was resurrected because he died in a pandemic, in the villages they mourn him and he died from covid. “All for appropriating the discourse of social justice,” the journalist criticized after showing that fragment of the interview. However, Sergio Massa’s lie was exposed and, as if that were not enough, his space colleagues also left him in a bad light.
Even his wife and head of AySA, Malena Galmarini, made it clear that they were not with Bachi. “We shared with @SergioMassa and @gkatopodis a beautiful afternoon of mates with Father Pepe, Toto, Charly, Tano, Tonga and Leo at Villa 21-24, Zabaleta,” the official reported on her social networks on September 10 .
Messages for Father Bachi
On August 29, 2020, the death of the priest was announced, which moved the inhabitants of Villa Palito, in La Matanza. Furthermore, due to his relevance, he was honored on repeated occasions, to the point that even Cristina Kichner sent him her condolences through social networks: «This morning Father Bachi passed away. “He had COVID-19 and was hospitalized for more than a month,” he lamented.
“In the photo he is receiving Néstor in Villa Palito, when he announced his urbanization in 2004. Please, take good care of yourselves… For yourselves, for your loved ones and for your neighbors as well,” wished the former president of Argentina, just as Sergio did. Berni, Santiago Cafiero, Veronica Magario and other leaders of the ruling party.
