Sergio Massa is of Italian descent (his parents were actually born in Italy) and so is Javier Milei. The official candidate was a goalkeeper in his youth, in Tigre, his favorite club, and the libertarian candidate was also a goalkeeper, but in Chacarita Juniors.
And that’s it: here ends the coincidences between the two competitors to succeed Alberto Fernández as president of Argentina.
Massa is a professional politician, too professional, to the point of being called an opportunist. He has been mayor, provincial deputy, national deputy and leader of the Chamber of Deputies. He was a supporter of Menem, of the center-right, chief of staff of Cristina Kirchner, of the center-left, broke up with her, returned to her arms, ran for president in 2015 but lost and assumed the Ministry of Economy last year. year with inflation that reaches 150% annually.
Massa is a politician. Final point, as summarized by political scientist Carlos De Angelis, from the University of Buenos Aires.
“He is a racial politician, someone who constantly observes the scene, allies and adversaries at the same time.”
But if Massa changes with the wind, deep down he is only obeying the doctrine of Peronism, the political current that is defined precisely because it has no doctrine, as De Angelis points out.
“With a weak doctrine, Peronism has the advantage of being able to adapt…”
Milei, former singer of a rock band and former performer of himself in the play “O Consultório de Milei”, has now entered politics, following the advice beyond the grave, he says, of the deceased dog Conan in 2017. TV, his eccentricities differentiate him from other anti-Kirchnerist, anti-Peronist and anti-state economists.
“Milei stands out because she expresses her opinion in a way, with screams and annoyance, that is aesthetically different.”
This is followed by colossal online support from youth for the libertarian and anarcho-capitalist discourse of the zero state.
“These aggressively expressed opinions, instead of being condemned, made him, on the contrary, stand out from other economists on television, to the point that his ways were subsequently replicated by a spontaneous army of young people on the Internet.”
The choice of Argentines is, therefore, between an external economist who is at least eccentric and a career politician who is at least chameleon-like.
Source: TSF
