Sergio Massa defeated Javier Milei in the last televised debate between the two candidates for the presidency of Argentina, whose elections will take place on the 19th, according to the main newspapers in Buenos Aires. the candidate of the coalition Unión Por La Patria and current Minister of Economy ‘tame the lion’, the nickname that the leader of the coalition La Libertad Avanza, a right-wing libertarian, imposed on himself.
“Massa gained an advantage over a Milei who did not take advantage of the enormous crisis and left the government,” headlined Clarín, a newspaper that criticized the current director of Alberto Fernández, of which Massa is a prominent figure, but also ideas described as “anarcho”. -capitalist”. by Milei. “The traps and cross-attacks prevailed over the proposals and the government candidate constantly asked for answers from the opponent, who practically did not counterattack,” the newspaper continues. In an editorial, he states that Massa has proven “to be a professional politician”, but he wonders whether this “adds or takes away voters”.
The daily La Nación asked eleven analysts for their opinion and the eleven gave Massa, 51 years old, the victory over the 53-year-old Milei, observing such things as argumentative solidity, political reflexes, gestures and, above all, strategy. Well prepared, the Minister of Economy asked the economist and television commentator to tell him “why they did not extend his internship at the Central Bank”, implying that his rival had failed the psychotechnical exams. “Tell us, tell us, Javier,” Massa insisted. “That’s why you want to close the Central Bank? Because at some point you felt rejected,” he concluded, in what the press labeled the moment of the night.
However, ‘The tamed lion’ is the headline of Página12, a newspaper associated with the left and therefore with a pro-mass bias. “The Unión Por La Patria candidate focused on exposing his rival’s inconsistencies and consolidating the foundations of his national unity project.”
“We won the three points,” Massa’s team summarized. Milei published on social media that “on the one hand was a lying, cynical, arrogant, arrogant politician who thinks the state belongs to him (…) and on the other hand a group of citizens who got involved in the dirt of politics to to change a reality decadence for which Minister Massa is responsible.”
Source: DN
