Sergio Massa He came as the great savior. And in a way, he was. The mayor of Avellaneda, Jorge Ferraresi, came to say that if he had not arrived at the government, in a couple of days the helicopter scene would have been repeated. But he arrived and was buying time, it was even thought that if his bet could make up the financial situation of the State a little better, he could be a presidential candidate. Today, with 7.7% of inflationWhat he is looking for are the culprits and the way to withdraw from the government without causing an institutional cataclysm.
It is that for businessmen and for “the market”, What Alberto Fernández gave Sergio was not a ministry, it was the government. If he withdraws, a situation of fictional headlessness occurs.
But the former mayor of Tigre, like the minister of the same portfolio of the Cristina government, Hernán Lorenzino, repeats to his intimates without ceasing: “I want to go.” Although in terms of external financing and reconstruction of the complex Argentine debt system, he has achieved some low-impact victories, and in addition, he has achieved build a network of personal contacts in multilateral credit organizations that they can be very useful to you in the future; In the domestic economy, spiraling inflation destroys its already bad public image and sticks it to the failure of the government.
“Sergio is looking for a way to get out of here without this causing Alberto to have to advance the elections, he does not want to be responsible for the fall of the government, which, without him, seems indefectible. Notice that he is governing, Alberto is going to teaching, says the odd inconsistency from time to time and that’s it, this is Massa’s government”, they say around them.
However, they also explain that “what happens is that what he grabbed is unmanageable, now we have to let go, because we entered the cemetery with this guy (by President Fernández).” And if. His numbers indicate that the image of the former super-minister would be even more negative than that of the president himself. “It’s not on time, it’s late, but It’s more time than in the middle of a hyper“, says in reference to an escape from the Palace of Finance, one of the men who usually advises Massa.
Malena Galmarini, wife of the crestfallen minister, has already begun to operate some issues that may act as an excuse in the short term: “the operations against Sergio come from the government itself,” she said publicly. In reality, very few operations are seen, in fact, less criticism is heard than any portfolio holder would suffer in the current inflationary conditions, but denouncing that there are, and that they come from the government itself, is good preparation for a exit in anger
Today Massa, with 7.7% inflation, what he is looking for are guilty and withdraw from the government without causing a cataclysm
Massa and inflation: are there expectations of reduction?
Sources from the Palacio de Hacienda assure that Massa had the inflation number the day before his new trip to the United States, and that the insults were heard from the Plaza de Mayo. Never imagined such a high inflation number. In fact, his objective was to be, at that point, between 3% and 4%, seeking to be in a position so that the presidential operative outcry was for him and not for Cristina. If it had happened, the Tigrense had not decided whether to run or not, but without a doubt he would have been highly positioned as a leader of Peronism and an expectant candidate for 2027.
But the numbers are giving double and without any expectation of reductionsome believe, in their own environment, that the trend is upward and uncontrollable, something that also happens with the free dollar, which does not stop rising and drags all market prices with it.
“Blue is cheap. I would tell you, it should be worth 70% more. If a friend asks me, I tell him to buy. We are cutting it off but who knows how long. But you think: if Sergio resigns, naturally he will go to hell and Naturally, the president is a lame duck, he will be singled out as responsible. But if he does not leave and everything goes out of control as it seems, he is also sunk with these people, “they explain very close to Massa.
In short, the head of the Palacio de Hacienda is looking for the exit door, but for now he cannot find it, at least not to generate a less traumatic rupture that does not mark him as responsible for an abrupt debacle.
“And if I tell you that Cristina has also considered resigning as vice president?” adds a high-ranking leader of Kirchnerism, surprising the chronicler who asks what would happen if Massa left. The vice president also wants to make a lethal gesture that will permanently differentiate her from Alberto, and her resignation could be a huge coup.
Looks like it’s time to jump ship. The selection of the moment and the mode is a matter of tactical design, but, except for Buenos Aires Peronism, which knows that these are its last months and that it will probably never return to power, all the others are looking for a way to detach themselves.
Inflation reached 104% per year and the blue dollar is already at 400 pesos
“Look at it as an anomaly. Beyond the influence and weight of Christianity, a good part of this management was handled by a version of Peronism that never won an electionthe PJ of the Capital is the pariah version of Peronism and ended up in the government”, explains a peronologist of the trajectory and shaft.
Regardless of the analysis, the sustainability of the government is in Massa’s hands and, in turn, Massa’s future seems to be related to how much is involved in this inflationary disaster that he cannot control. No one doubts that Sergio naturally tends to preserve himself above any collective construction, so it is a matter of time before he finds the door to freedom.
