The President feels extorted and the Fund delays the agreement until it knows political definitions. "If Alberto insists on the PASO plan, Sergio leaves," they say in Massa's entourage.

Massa will be the closing speaker of the party congress of the Frente Renovar on Saturday. The slogan will be #CreoenArgentina, a hashtag that has been used in the networks and is not part of the official communication of the government. In a new campaign spot he compares Argentina to the "raging sea" in which he lost his arm.