Sergio Massa was the name of the day. Since early Wednesday, the rumors about his arrival at the cabinet did not stop and, at the end of the day, far from being minimized, they were enlarged: the tigresen is placed at the head of the Ministry of Economy, once Silvina Batakis arrives in the country. The maneuver, they clarify from the ruling party, could come accompanied by other modifications in the structure of the government that Massa would have put as a condition and that could imply movements in the Banco Central – currently leading Miguel Pesce– and in the AFIPled by Mercedes Marco del Pont, among other areas. It is necessary to know what place the now head of the Treasury Palace will occupy, Silvina Batakiswhich he took over a few weeks ago.
In all this turmoil, Massa said that he had not yet received any offer and agreed to “chat” with Alberto Fernández between Friday and Saturday. He also ruled out the versions that accounted for alleged economic projects, explaining that he has been “working in line with the BCRA and the Ministry of Economy.”
To complete, Massa indicated: “when you have something to say or the government decides to announce something, IT WILL BE DONE THROUGH THE CORRESPONDING LANES.”
a hectic day
The novelty, however, is the office in which Massa was expected. It is that in the runrún of Casa Rosada, it was believed that for now the President of Deputies will take charge of the Chief of Staff. The change implied that Manzur would return to his province, in a return to the governorship that, now, seems dissipated, although the possibility of Jorge Capitanich replacing the former Minister of Health also resonates. From the Executive they clarified that the arrival of Massa also “It would open the door to bigger reconfigurations because that’s what happens when a weight figure arrives.”
Who also fueled the rumors was the partner of the leader of the Renovating Front, Malena Galmarini. Aysa’s head shared a suggestive video on social networks of her, from a campaign spot for the 2013 legislative elections, when the then leader of the Renovator Front he ran for national deputy, facing Kirchnerism.
“Trapped by insomnia, I set out to order the audiovisual library on my phone… I came across this “little pearl”, Aysa’s owner wrote in a Twitter post, which closed with an eloquent phrase: “Everything comes back, everything happens, everything arrives. A shirt that says”.
The spot, with the theme “Everything returns” by Axel, had as its campaign motto: “If we want to change the future, let’s start today. At a time when everyone is subtracted, he comes to propose something crazy: adding”.
The images refer to the legislative elections of 2013, whose results implied a victory for Massa (43%) against the candidate of the Front for Victory, Martin Insaurralde (31%) in the province of Buenos Aires.
Photo with the governors and something else
The possible changes in the Cabinet were also part of the menu that characterized Alberto Fernández’s summit with 13 provincial chiefs that make up the League of Governors. “We informed him of our vision of the economic situation as a result of the exchange rate run. The President conveyed that he is working to take the pertinent measures,” explained the governor of Santa Cruz, Alicia Kirchner, once she concluded the meeting.
“We told him that the governors have to be participants and protagonists of the decisions that affect our provinces. The country is made up of 23 provinces, if we are not minimally consulted it will be difficult,” he commented in dialogue with Page 12 another of the provincial leaders who participated in the meeting.
The meeting with Fernández was not in the plans of the governors, even from Casa Rosada they commented that the invitation was to have lunch, but the provincial leaders had already had lunch at the Federal Investment Council (CFI). At the end of the meeting in the Eva Perón Room of the Government House, those present left without making any kind of statement to the press and, after a few hours, they began to publish limited messages on their social networks that said, in their great majority, that “the President told us that work is being done to move forward with measures to respond to this situation that we are going through”.
News in development.