Whoever wins wins… the initiative. The government appears to have regained the center of the political scene on the day the Inflation data and the week, the axis of which was JxC’s victory in Santa Fe sequence of displays, -Today there is one at 7 p.m.- the minister Sergio Massa found the touchstone for something that now resembles a government party’s election campaign.
It is well known that everywhere in the world, a government seeking re-election uses what it has at its disposal – and there is a lot of it – to seduce the electorate. In general, the axis is established in management, both past and present. However, this scheme is uncomfortable for candidate Massa. This weakness condemned him to be unable to write a future history, or more precisely the election promise.
Recalculation
But some of that changed this week. Therefore, two quick elements that should be mentioned:
One. Candidate Massa appears to have sufficient financial resources to show that he can start doing what he promises under his future government. Bonus for pensioners, agreement on prices and salaries, profit reform, advertisements for monotributists and the self-employed etc.
Of. The promise appeared in a political key, the expectation of a change, a resource that could not be deployed in the previous one, perhaps because it had to remain “inconspicuous” so as not to arouse the wrath of the IMF before the disbursement of 7500 million US -Dollar.
The dollars are coming
With the dollars in the BCRA and a million open fronts at the financial and liquidity levels, Massa realized that this is the only way to attract the attention of society – to be enchanted by Milei’s Tik-Tok and at the same time achieve ever higher prices in the Gondola to pay Supporting the pockets.
Improve the purchasing power of income by all possible means, through decrees, tax cuts, the granting of bonuses, the reopening of joint ventures. Deep down, Massa is suspicious that the Milei voter believes that when the time comes, the “Chainsaw” and the benefit of dollarization serves not only to facilitate León del Abasto’s rise to power.
Closer it disappears
In summary: beyond inflation inertia, the internal dictates of the governing coalition and the objections of the leading organization Kristalina Georgieva, The resource of strengthening purchasing power – albeit in the short term – becomes a powerful argument, since the rest of the opposition does not seem to stop at this approach when it comes to macro discussions – deficit reduction, dollarization, bimonetarism, caste – that they represent are moving away , the closer the election gets, almost like a baglining ray.
For Massa, it is crucial that the electorate – those of the Union por la Patria and those who could still identify with that coalition but did not vote in PASO – begin to recognize something of what the writer Cormac McCarthy used to say: “If you can keep a small promise, you can certainly keep a big promise.” With short-term resources committed and an agenda of progressive reforms that will swamp votes in Congress, Massa already has his 15-day strategy.
