Politics and economics, against the clock. Sergio Massa invited the deputy and head of La Cámpora, Máximo Kirchner, to his imminent tour to China. The Minister of Economy will travel to the Asian giant on May 28 and return on June 5. It is not just another trip, the leader of the Renewal Front will go in search of getting the green light to be able to use more yuan of the swap.
The almost 30 hours shared with the son of the Vice President at 10,<> feet leave time for the political thread when the countdown to the definition of the lists of candidates of the Frente de Todos for the next elections accelerates.
Massa will attend the meeting of the New Development Bank (NDB), the credit agency of the BRICS, the group of five emerging economies that make up Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa that Argentina wants to join.
Another central point is the expansion of the availability of the swap use that Argentina signed with China. With Massa's shadow foreign minister, Undersecretary for Latin America Gustavo Pandiani, heading to the Mercosur and Unasur Summit, INDEC chief Marco Lavagna is in charge of organizing the trip. He worked side by side with the Secretary of International Economic Relations of the Foreign Ministry, Cecilia Todesca. From China, the supervision was in charge of Ambassador Sabino Vaca Narvaja, who responds politically to Cristina Kirchner.
In Economy insist that they do not intend to add more yuan to the equivalent $ 18 billion that Beijing has already lent to Argentina, but to expand the availability of that loan that has already gone from US $ 5 billion to US $ 10 billion. At the same time, the FR leader does not lose hope of adding US$ <> billion in advance from the IMF.
3x1. Wado de Pedro with Máximo Kirchner and Sergio Massa in 2021. Photo Lucia Merle
As reported by Noticias, Massa transmitted the invitation to Maximo Kirchner. "Sergio extended the invitation to Maxi. In these days it is confirmed if it goes, "they said before the consultation of Clarín in the environment of the former head of the bloc of pro-government deputies, who on Tuesday met in his office with a delegation of the Evita Movement.
Maximo does not know China. He did not travel in 2004 with his father when the former president was excited and oversold the expectations of an investment of US $ 20 billion from China in Argentina (an illusion that Alberto Fernández also reissued in February 2022). Kirchner Jr. also did not join his mother's presidential entourages, in 2010 and in 2015, when he was already officiating as head of La Cámpora.
Massa and Kirchner do not see with bad eyes the idea of a unified candidacy so as not to disperse the vote of the ruling party. The leader of La Cámpora, however, bets on the electoral power of Axel Kicillof, a way to free that space to Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro or Martín Insaurralde.
The head of La Cámpora, however, made it known that he would accept internal competition if the other contenders Daniel Scioli or Agustín Rossi present candidates in all sections of the ballot, a difficult undertaking.
In the team of the Minister of Economy, on the other hand, they consider that the Buenos Aires governor is too polarizing and does not retain all the votes of Cristina Kirchner. They prefer a more moderate candidate, more like Massa.
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Cecilia Moreau, Massa's political bishop, still defines the list of invited legislators who, like Kirchner, could join the tour. Eduardo Valdés, with dialogue with the Fernandezes, is the president of the Foreign Relations Committee of Deputies.
Kirchner will not be the only guest with his own political weight. The economy minister also participated with the Deputy Chief of Cabinet, Juan Manuel Olmos, with whom he maintains a more than oiled dialogue.
The president's former chief adviser also did not confirm his presence yet, but intends to travel. He is one of the men that the president listens to the most and one of the preferred interlocutors when the envoys of La Cámpora and Christianity want to send him a message. Tension with the group of Kirchner by the armed porteño.
Olmos is also legal representative of the PJ, which last week delegated the signature to sign its alliances in the pen of Formosa Governor Gildo Insfrán, who on Tuesday met with Cristina Kirchner, spoke with Massa and visited the president at the Casa Rosada.
In one of those corridors of Balcarce 50 he also talked hurriedly with Olmos. Insfrán promised the president that he will enable internal competition, but those who frequent him point out that at the end of the road, he will favor the majority opinion of Peronism and the governors.
The Renewal Front demanded that the PJ convene its allies and on June 10 will hold its own party congress. Close to Massa they hope that, in the middle, the negotiation between the parties will take place. The dialogue may begin in China at 10,<> feet.
Massa plans to attend Cristina Kirchner's event in Plaza de Mayo on Thursday, and the FR will mobilize its troops, as agreed by Kirchner in a meeting with delegates of the minister.
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