Sergio Massa insists that if he is president “a new stage begins in Argentina”

The official candidate for president Argentina, Sergio Massacurrent Minister of Economy, insisted this Thursday, the last day of the electoral campaign, that if he is elected president in the second round next Sunday, December 10 “a new stage begins” in the South American country.

Massa reiterated in this way that he is also a candidate who represents “the change”, like his challenger, the far-right Javier Milei, in a speech to the businessmen of the Inter-American Council of Commerce and Production at a lunch organized at a hotel in Buenos Aires.

The candidate of Union for the Homeland (Peronism) is the current Minister of Economy of a country that last October reached 142.7% year-on-year inflation and suffers from more than 40% poverty.

Massa is the leader of the ruling party, but seeks to distance himself from the lackluster management of Alberto Fernández and the figure of former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015), current vice president.

“On December 10, I want to be the president who buries the (ideological) rift.”Massa closed his harangue, a president who “feel” businessmen at the table to “open more markets”for “generate more work”, that “inaugurate a new stage in which dialogue is the brand” and “end the frenemy idea”of having to choose between the countryside and the industry, the interior or the city and understanding that “The past is no longer discussed.”

The minister will face the leader of Freedom Advancesa ‘outsider’ that calls to choose between “continuity or change” and that, after reaching the runoff, he obtained the support of former president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) and former presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich, third in the October general elections.

Massa acknowledged that “after so many years of public life,” some people “they may have doubts” about him and his ideas.

Before being Minister of Economy (since July 2022), he was president of the Chamber of Deputies since 2019, national deputy between 2013 and 2017, mayor of the town of Tigre, in the province of Buenos Aires (2007-2008 and 2009- 2013); Chief of Staff of Cristina Fernández in 2008, and head of the social security organization -Anses- between 2002 and 2007, among other positions.

“It is key to have a country and a government that defends the industry,” that defend “participation in markets and increasing them”Massa emphasized to the businessmen.

And he highlighted that the “risks” to choose Mileia candidate who proposes that the State not relate to countries “communists”like Brazil and China, the two main trading partners of Argentinais the loss of activity and employment.