2023-11-13 04:11:00
Massa is smarter than Milei, but he also prepared better. During years. The tone of the debate is the one left by the first block, with Massa putting Milei once morest the ropes, Bennie Briscoe’s overhand right on the chin of Monzón, who was looking at the clock waiting for the bell to ring. Milei appeared disoriented in that passage, with his emotions at the limit of control, hopeless in front of a version of Massa. killer. The second leg of the debate was balanced and the cost was for the show. Milei was encouraged to dispute the center of the ring and even placed some accurate hands, but she never fully hit Massa’s weak point: the crisis that is suffocating us. The show lost its tension and the idea of drama. Massa won the debate, without a doubt. But Patricia Bullrich had also won it on October 15. The casuistry tells us that this result indicates nothing regarding what is to come.
Massa, was he pretending? a mocking laugh as she watched Milei take all the baits. Imagine the face of a fish out of water. The libertarian showed the most amateur side of him in politics when he accepted the rules that Massa imposed on him. By nature, a politician never answers a question without making a long detour, while he finds a way to regain the initiative and return the kindness. That Milei ignored him in a debate is surprising, or not so much.
The lowest point for the La Libertad Avanza candidate was during the segment in which economics, his specialty, was discussed. Milei must have stated things that she probably would have wanted to avoid. “Yes or no?” the Minister (of Economy) fired regarding the elimination of subsidies, the privatization of Vaca Muerta, dollarization or the liquidation of the Central Bank.
Who won the presidential debate between Sergio Massa and Javier Milei?
Mandaba Massa. Milei worked hard to get out of trouble, but she barely managed it. She stumbled as she expounded on the disempowerment of wages that, she said, “fell 33%.” “About what they had already lost with Macri!” The engineer and former president, unconditional ally (as Milei recently said) of the candidate, was not present in the auditorium of the Faculty of Law. Strictly speaking, No relevant figure from Together for Change was there.. In the last few hours, there was a lot of talk (and writing) regarding the discomfort of a sector of LLA due to the alliance with Macrismo and the oversight responsibilities assigned to some of the members of their entourage. A libertarian source, with access to Milei, confirmed this to this reporter this Friday.
Massa put his finger there and dug. He remembered Milei’s differences with her ally. Patricia Bullrich, when they were adversaries, days ago. He was going to do it other times, with the aim of hitting Milei with Macri and detaching himself from the other leadership that hegemonized Argentine politics in the last 20 years. “This is not between Macri and Cristina. They already had their chance. This is between you and me, Javier.”
Milei accused Massa of lying several times. Without a doubt it might be attested that the minister has abused that resource throughout his career. It might be said, piously, that he has changed his mind frequently. “If you were Pinocchio, you would have poked me by now,” said the candidate. In that exchange they gave life (it really seemed like they didn’t know that she was dead) a character from the past, who many of both of their voters would barely recognize: Margaret Thatcher. It was while they were discussing Malvinas, that object of Argentine desire, increasingly distant, and the disturbing initiatives of Mrs. Mondino, Milei’s eventual chancellor. They jumped to relations with Brazil and China, of which it was discussed above all who was lying. Low flight for two crucial links for the export complex and the entry of dollars to Argentina from manufacturing production and agriculture. “Those who abandoned you today in this room led you to harsh criticism,” said Massa, in a new allusion to Macri.
The Minister of Economy surprised with a complaint. He demanded that Milei explain the origin of “the apartments, money and properties” that Milei’s family would have in the United States. Declared? It seemed like an inopportune shelving in the midst of the espionage scandal that is shaking Kirchnerism. Milei denied everything. The closest Massa came to bringing Milei’s emotional imbalance to the stage was with a question full of malice and, one might say, insidious. “Tell why the Central Bank did not renew your internship… Tell it, Javier”. We will have to find out. Or ask Massa more in depth.
Milei managed to reach Massa when the topic of Education appeared. The minister once once more boasted regarding the creation of universities in the Peronist governments and promised – he had already done so – to bring spending on Education to 8%. The libertarian brought it down to earth with the high school dropout figures, with which poverty reaches two-thirds of the children, who do not eat as they should. “Are you going to pay universities fees?”: Massa’s question no longer had the same effect.
It remains mysterious how Massa can get through the economic fire with his pressed suit. Milei, as has been said, barely bothered him with the devastating consequences that a chronic crisis is having, from which the political class cannot escape and for which the libertarian is presented as an alternative.
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He second leg of the debate lost in intensity. The Production and Work segment showed Massa closer than ever to a liberal agenda, with a proposal for zero taxes on incremental exports and regional economies, tax reform, reduction of social charges and the “Nestorist” imprint: fiscal surplus and commercial, reduction of exchange rates and accumulation of reserves.
“You don’t even understand the numbers. I failed when I tried to teach you”, responded a somewhat more composed Milei. “If you had set foot in a company, not your friends’, you would understand…” An interesting exchange followed regarding their relationship with the business world, centered around the figure of Eduardo Eurnekian, for whom – as is known – Milei worked for several years. “I don’t have business friends,” Massa dared to say.
Was coincidences in relation to the topic of insecurity. They both talked regarding Rudolph Giuliani, former mayor of New York and whom Massa approached during his years as mayor in Tigre. Milei seemed to ignore the fact when she mentioned it when characterizing the situation in Argentina as “a bloodbath.” “He prefaced my book regarding combating insecurity,” Massa reminded him.
“It’s funny to hear you talk regarding democratic coexistence,” Milei said during that episode. He improvised a list of Kirchnerism scandals: the pact with Iran, the death of prosecutor Nisman, the deaths in the pandemic, the most recent and controversial Court trial promoted by the most unsound Kirchnerism and on which Massa never properly pronounces himself. Not this time either.
The libertarian relaxed. In a space for common interventions, he unusually asked Massa to question him. “I gave you the floor,” the minister replied. “And I give it to you.” The debate languished.
We had a show. Massa – it has been said – showed that he is a professional with years in politics, in which he has won and has had resounding failures, as he acknowledged tonight. He was fortunate that his adversaries until now did not know how to expose in front of him the disaster of the economy he manages. The account of the last months of campaign and easy money will be difficult to raise for whoever arrives. Milei showed the known limitations of him. He was on the verge of an emotional breakdown, but he managed to get out. You have to choose. Or not.
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