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Defined the electoral formulas and with the campaign in a frenzied race to show who is most faithful to the wishes of the electorate, just four days after the confirmation of the candidates, a verse begins rearrangements in speeches.
Maybe sergio masa and Horacio Rodriguez Larreta be the clearest example of how they had to begin to adapt their statements and enunciations in the last four days to seduce the toughest sectors of their own troops.
For Kirchnerism, human rights and the rejection of International Monetary Fund (IMF) They are flags that are not prepared to go down in any way. And Massa knows it. However, in 2014, the current Unión por la Patria candidate said: “I believe that Argentina has to close the stage of human rights, but we cannot stop looking at the fact that in the country there were thirty thousand disappeared. It seems to me that what the government forgot is that there are new human rights”. In those years, the Chief of Staff of Cristina KirchnerJorge Capitanich declared that Massa sought to achieve “impunity” by discrediting the human rights policy.
But in this luck evangelism that Kirchnerism has achieved with the candidate, a few days ago, there was a different gesture and speech than nine years ago. Together with the vice president, Massa participated in an act for the recovery of a plane from the “flights of death” during the last civil-military dictatorship and said: “For a generation raised in democracy, there is nothing more important than the defense of value democratic based on memory, truth and justice. If something allows us this plane that is nothing more than a symbol of the darkness of Argentina. Having it here, it came to the museum, showing it to the Argentines, to the world, and to continue making visible the idea that in Argentina we can never go through the dark pages of our history again, it will allow us to consolidate the democratic path”.
The candidate of Union for the Homeland He also did not miss the opportunity to talk about the link that Argentina has with the IMF. This Tuesday, June 27, in an act of the Argentine Chamber of Construction together with businessmen, Massa seemed to bring Néstor Kirchner’s speech when he paid the entire debt to the IMF in 2006. “Do you know what it is to go ask A loan to the Fund?” Massa asked. “It is giving up the autonomy of the country, assuming goals, commitments and obligations that act as an anchor against development. For this reason, it is necessary to think about an export program, to be able to get the foreign currency, pay it and get the IMF out of the country as soon as possible, so as to never have it here again“, he emphasized. The auction had a Kirchnerist tone: “The reconstruction of Argentina is with the people inside.”
There is no doubt, at this point in the electoral year, that last Monday the Kirchner-Massa partnership was sealed, which had already become closer in the assumption of the Tigrense to the Ministry of Economy. In her gestures and words, the former president had already shown her support for “Sergio” and she also kept strict silence with the adjustments that Massa made with the IMF as an observer. Her former chief of staff repaid that support, forgetting the old criticisms of yesteryear that differentiated him and among which he had said that with Kirchnerism “he would not even go to the corner.”
discursive mutations
On the other side of the counter is Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, who in his internal battle against Patricia Bullrich transformed the unionist phrase “we must end the crack” by “there is an end to kircherismo”.
The moderation of the head of government of the city of Buenos Aires was transformed into just four days of campaign. The one who proclaimed to end the division of the Argentines, knows that in order not to lose ground against the hawks of Together for Change, he has to endure his speech to attract the hard voter and not be relegated to the internal with the former Minister of Security.
In 2022, Larreta said: “We have to put an end to the antinomies, we have to put an end to the rift. We have to put an end to this that the one who thinks differently is an enemy. That has led us to the failure of Argentina in the last 100 years. We have been fighting for 100 years, of antinomy, of discussions, of rifts. Enough”. Two years later he says: “We seek to end Kirchnerism forever“. These words were issued last Tuesday while presenting various government proposals with his running mate, Gerardo Morales.
Part of this Larretista radicalization was fueled by the announcement of the governor of Jujuy and president of the Radical Civic Union as a member of his pairing. It was in the same week that the northern police repressed protesters who stoned the legislature and set it on fire. However, it was not the only source of conflict, since teacher protests demanding decent wages from the president were also combined.
Just on the day where the Human Rights Secretariat criminally denounced the state of Jujuy for police violence, Larreta said about Morales: “Gerardo is a guy who is the bank. We all saw it last week, when he banked with a lot of mettle, balance and dialogue. He also bankrolled when he imprisoned Milagro Sala and Tupac Amaru, who had a parallel government. That is the model we represent.”
The truth is that both Kirchnerism and the “hard” of Together for Change managed in a short time to convey their political convictions and evangelize two of their candidates who, like chameleons, adapt to the electorate so as not to lose in this battle to reach the Rivadavia armchair. Because, as Groucho Marx said: “These are my principles, but if you don’t like them, I have others.“
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