For years, to Sergio Massa His ears must have burned: the word “traitor” was the only one they pronounced in Kirchnerism when they remembered him. But that is history, after the surprising victory that he achieved this Sunday, the “traitor” became the savior of all Peronism. And he now has a good part of the ballot to be the next president.
Massa, 51, was almost everything you can be in politics, both in positions and ideology. As a young man he embraced the liberal faith as a member of the Democratic Center Union, as a young adult he was a bishop of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, to become in 2013 the brake on the president’s ambitions for political eternity. Ten years later she became Cristina’s resigned bet and an unexpected winner of this Sunday’s presidential elections.
It is true that Massa has yet to win the second round, also that his was the worst presidential election in the history of Peronism. But the ability of the former president of the Chamber of Deputies is undeniable. It was he who He inflated Milei’s candidacy behind the scenes giving it political support and electoral oversight. It was believed that the experiment had gotten out of hand, but the truth is that Milei helped Massa to bankrupt Together for Change, which until a couple of months ago he believed he had won the election.
A handball goalkeeper in his youth, Massa grew up knowing how to deflect the multiple attacks that any politician suffers on the front line. First as mayor of Tigre, then as head of the pension system, head of the Cabinet of Ministers and third authority of the State from the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies.
“Massa would make a mistake if he believed that the votes he received were his. Most of them are out of fear,” the analyst highlighted. Alejandro Catterberg. The fear, the fear of Milei, will undoubtedly be the axis of the campaign that begins ahead of the second round on November 19.