2023-08-07 03:01:00
The 14 most important definitions of Sergio Massa
The Minister of Economy and candidate for President for Union for the Homeland (UxP), Sergio Massa, touched on various topics in the interview he had in “El Método Rebord”. In this context, he spoke about his beginnings in politics, the break with Kirchnerism and the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
“I want to be president because we are a country with many resources and we have to transform that into wealth for many people”
“I want to be president because I believe that Argentina can sell value-added protein to the world, having quality work for its people; because I believe that in human capital we have an enormous possibility of becoming the brain of the world; because our federal dimension allows us to have a country that can compete from Ushuaia to La Quiaca in different demands at a global level; because we have solar, wind, fossil energy; because we have all the minerals the world needs; because we are the eighth country in the world in size but we still do not have the population density that we could have; because we need to connect; because we have fish richness that other countries do not have; because we are a resilient country, a country that crises do not wear, they make it stronger. I want to be president because we are a country with many resources and we have to transform it into wealth for many people, and not that it accumulates in four or five living”.
“I think we are going to win because Argentina is not going to go back. We are going to get ahead of the crisis, thinking about the future and not going back to the past. The way out is never backwards, because behind are the failed experiences, which also They cause a lot of pain.”
His relationship with the United States
“I get along well with officials and leaders of the United States, officials who occupy important places today, but whom I have known for twenty years. Many years ago they invited us to a conference, later they came and visited the country, we took them to the field of Tigre, we ate a barbecue, it went like this. They are relationships that one has to learn to care for, to cultivate. Among them are Dan Restrepo, former adviser to Obama, or Gregory Meeks, a member of the House of Representatives.”
“In 2024 we are going to strengthen the value of the currency and that will allow us to lower inflation”
“In 2024, Argentina will export 13/14 billion dollars more in energy. Two huge mining projects are starting up, added to the lithium industry, a very good harvest… that will strengthen the value of the currency, which will allow us to lower inflation, and will enable access to credit for the people,” he said.
“Macri’s agreement with the Fund left us a trustee of our economy”
“I think we did not know how to count. Macri left a bolt of 45 thousand sticks. The largest loan in the history of the Fund, they did not even give Ukraine that money for the war. He announced it in a minute and a half and left us tied for 13 years And now they say that they are going to ask for more money. Macri’s agreement with the Fund left us a trustee of our economy. And then came the pandemic, came the drought, “said Massa.
Regarding his double task as minister and candidate, he recounted: “It is a task that combined with the activity of being a candidate is super exhausting, but it seems to me that it is worth it, because we have to restore hope to those who signed an adhesion contract in 2019 with us, to those who invest in the country”.
His view of the opposition: “They are very good for marketing, they are creative, they have actors who disseminate well”
“They have a way of seeing things, believing that they represent a sector of society that has more rights. That’s why they don’t want computers for kids, they reject the policy for subsidies, the flag airline. They are very good at marketing They are creative, they have actors who broadcast well, that’s what they’re good at”
“Macri’s anger with me began with the Money Laundering Law”
“Macri’s anger began with the Money Laundering Law. We prohibit family members from laundering and he called me from Colombia to ask me to remove that article, because he had problems with the Panama Papers, with his cousin, brother, and I don’t know what else. I told him no and from that moment it became a personal issue,” he said about his relationship with former President Mauricio Macri.
“Kicillof was the one who warned me that they were using the subject to get family members to launder. I always joke with Axel that I owe Macri the hatred I owe to him,” he stressed.
His break with Kirchnerism: “I failed to put on the table what was the risk of an eventual division”
“In 2011 I had already raised my differences with Daniel Scioli as governor. I had a different look at how the security issue should be handled, because I believe a lot in the local police. That was a strong difference that I had with Daniel and that was generating a whole process of discussion”.
“We went a long time without talking to Cristina, I would say almost five and a half years. When we got back together, he looked at me and asked me why we had a fight. You went up to give a speech and kicked me out, I reminded him, heh. From those moments we started different paths,” he added.
“At that moment I failed to put on the table what was the risk of an eventual division. I think that sometimes the dynamics that politics is taking calls you to become emboldened in positions from which it is difficult to return later. One has to have humility knowing how to go back when something doesn’t work”, he asserted.
His tenure as the Chief of Staff
“One morning I was in my underpants and a shirt, drinking mate with the radio on, and nine in the morning I heard a last moment on Radio 10 with the resignation of Alberto Fernández. A few minutes later the phone rang, it was Cristina asking me to go to Olivos”, he recalled how his arrival at the Chief of Staff was conceived.
“I arrived and Cristina told me that she wanted me to hold the position. Then Néstor came and the three of us had a talk. The only thing I asked them to do was only go for a year, because he had a commitment to the residents of Tigre, where he was mayor-elect “, he added.
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“As mayor I did very disruptive things”
“I did very disruptive things as a mayor. In 2008 I put in the camera system, the anti-panic buttons, and the other mayors wanted to kill me, because I was doing things from which they always disassociated themselves and charged the provincial government.”
“When I took office, Tigre was the capital of kidnapping with hostage taking, there was an area liberated by the Buenos Aires. We lowered crime by 92%, we did a job that was very marked and that others were repeating.”
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06/08/2023
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On the work of Malena Galmarini: “She loves the daily melee with people”
“There was a moment, when the boys were born, that Malena was more into politics, she was focused on studying and other things, she had told me that two in the house doing politics was too much. But she got involved again when we took the decision decision to fight Tigre, which had been governed for many years by neighborhoodism. She really likes local politics, she loves the daily hand-to-hand with people”, described the work of his wife and president of AySa, Malena Galmarini.
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“Néstor did not want him to go as mayor of Tigre, he wanted him to be a minister in Cristina’s government”
“I am a fan of management. I believe that doing is what distinguishes you, more than speaking. And Néstor was of doing. Obviously, the Anses thing gave us a link, but later, from there, he gave me the possibility of giving an opinion on everything and bringing ideas, I had a very excellent relationship”
“Néstor did not want me to go as mayor of Tigre, he wanted me to be a minister of the government that Cristina was starting. I made the decision to be a candidate and he found out on TV. He called me in the afternoon and asked me what I was doing, he told me that I had to be a minister. Later we had a discussion in Olivos and Cristina and Máximo supported me in the decision.”
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His relationship with Néstor Kirchner: “He defended every cent of his province and the country”
“I met Néstor on top of a campaign bus. He arrived with people from his team and we began to travel a route, he was going to an event in Caleta Oliva. He sat there and we began to talk about how the situation was in the province” , he recalled about his first contact with Néstor Kirchner.
“When Néstor was governor and I was director of Anses I had to negotiate with him. He was rigorous, super-demanding, he looked at the results, he defended every cent of his province and the country. And when he was president, at the first meeting I attended called, I went with my control notes, my route sheet. He took it from me and asked me what each of the items meant. He told me that the presentation was very good and that he wanted to see the same sheet every week. And he called his people to ask them to do something similar with data from the Economy,” he added.
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His first job and his experience as a provincial deputy
“My old man had a construction SME and my first job was with him. I was also a teacher in a vacation camp. And after a graduate trip, I was a student travel coordinator,” he said about his first jobs.
Referring to his time as a provincial deputy, he said: “As a provincial deputy, even though I was a boy, I was quite light, in a Chamber where there were many heavyweights. I raised disruptive things.”
20:25
06/08/2023
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Sergio Massa: “At the age of 18 I joined Peronism and from then on it was all a battle”
“My old account that at the age of eleven I got on a bucket and imitated the politicians who spoke at events on television. There is no rational explanation for my entry into politics, but it happened and I got involved. At 18 years old I joined Peronism, the file was signed by Graciela Camaño, and from then on it was all a battle,” Massa recalled about his first steps in militancy.
“My old people got used to it, my children at first yes, then no, then yes, then no…”, he added about how his family carries out his political activity.
“Moria is a very good mine who lived through everything and speaks to you after having lived a lot. We are an assembled family, as is Unión por la Patria, I’m used to that,” he said about Moria Casán, the current partner of his father-in-law, Fernando Galmarini.
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06/08/2023
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“We Argentines have everything to not be anyone’s beggar, but we have to defend it at the table”
“We Argentines have everything not to be beggars for anyone, but we have to defend it at the table, having a national project that does not go back to cycles in which the financial homeland is prioritized,” said the pre-candidate for president.
“I think the best we can do is have our own country project in terms of development and get out of the logic of financial speculation. Those are the two country models that will be disputed on August 13,” he added.
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06/08/2023
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“With the Fund, the negotiations do not come to blows, but they are very tough”
“With the Fund, the negotiations do not come to blows, but they are hard. They have a very pre-shaped look, they think the same solution for Pakistan as for Argentina, and they are different countries,” added the Minister of Economy in relation to the debt with the Fund and the constant conversations with the organism,
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06/08/2023
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Sergio Massa: “The Government did not know how to tell the people well that we received an Argentina with a default in pesos”
“In this job you are obliged to be connected 24/7, it may be your turn to do a Zoom with the Qataris at dawn or with a team from the Ministry that was in India, in the G20”, Sergio Massa began by telling during his exclusive interview in The Rebord Method, a place where he agreed to go for his son’s requests.
“The government did not know how to tell the people well that we received an Argentina with a default in pesos. I think there was no gymnastics to tell the state of things, Argentina has a 100-year debt because of what Macri did and we already forgot,” noted about the negotiations with the Fund.
19:20
06/08/2023
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Sergio Massa’s Sunday: lunch with neighbors in Ciudad Oculta, act in Ferro and interview on YouTube
Sergio Massa and the candidate for head of the Buenos Aires government, Leandro Santoro, visited this Sunday the Ciudad Oculta neighborhood, in Villa Lugano, where they went to two community kitchens and toured a popular fair. In addition, they had lunch and talked with the neighbors.
In the afternoon, at the Ferro Carril Oeste micro-stadium in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito, he was the main speaker at the meeting convened by the Evita Movement, Somos Barrios de Pie and the Clasista y Combativa Current.
At night, starting at 8:00 p.m., the interview that the minister had with the streamer Tomás Rebord can be seen on YouTube.
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