I had announced it a year ago

The Frente Renovador celebrates the presidential candidacy of its boss, Sergio Massa

Karin Silvina Hiebaum – International Press

The troops always pushed the minister into the fight for the Casa Rosada. «He’s the best candidate,» said Eslaiman from Buenos Aires and pondered Agustín Rossi, a running mate.

Massa-Rossi is the unity formula of Peronism, Scioli and Wado went down

The formula emerged after a meeting of Massa with Cristina in the Senate. It was possible to re-establish the dialogue with Alberto who stayed with the vice and two deputies.

Massa left Congress where his candidacy for president was closed.

Open, Simultaneous and Compulsory Primaries (PASO) was the main premise of Union for the Homeland since the pre-candidacies began to be discussed. The arguments ranged from the need for Peronism to have the most voted candidate, to the fact that an internal fight could generate blows that the economy could not stand.

Massa-Rossi, the formula of unity in Union for the Homeland

Union for the Fatherland announced it at 20:49: there is a list of unity of Union for the Fatherland with the Minister of Economy as a pre-candidate for President and Agustín Rossi as a candidate for the vice presidency.

«Because of institutional, political and social responsibility, our space has decided to form a list of unity that will represent us in the next elections,» the post says and announces: «Our candidate for president will be Sergio Massa and will accompany him as a candidate for vice president Agustin Rossi.»

«We recognize the companions Wado de Pedro and Daniel Scioli, who bet on the unity of Peronism by putting the collective before the individual,» the communication closes.

It is a formula free of pure Kirchnerism that emerged from a summit held by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the Minister of Economy.

Sergio Massa managed to prevail in the final sprint and will be the candidate for president of Peronism. After a defining meeting with Cristina Kirchner in the Senate, the «unity formula» led by the Minister of Economy and taking the albertista Agustín Rossi as a candidate for vice president was announced.

Alberto Fernández re-established the dialogue with the vice president after months of fierce confrontation and agreed to lower the list of Daniel Scioli, who was left with nothing. Victoria Tolosa Paz and Santiago Cafiero will go to the list of deputies, in second and fifth place. Alberto stayed like this with the candidate for vice president and two deputies of those who enter. It’s no small feat.

In the Congress, in addition to Massa, there were Wado, Máximo Kirchner and Juan Manuel Olmos, who was key in the agreement. The deputy head of the Cabinet went and came several times by car from Congress to meet with Alberto.

The governors ask to rearm the formula and Massa ordered total silence

The definition came to order the confusing Wado-Manzur formula that Cristina Kirchner illuminated on Thursday and put Peronism in violent emotion. After the heavy silence of Massa and the irruption of the governors asking for a list of unity (a euphemism not to say Massa), this resolution was reached.

In the middle, another key movement occurred: Alberto let go of Scioli’s hand, offended because the former motor user chose Alberto Pérez as the first candidate for deputy instead of Cafiero, as he had asked. Then Scioli promised that place to Hugo Moyano, to finance the campaign. The truck driver was also left with nothing.

«Scioli is not my candidate, my candidates are Victoria and Cafiero,» Alberto told governors Jalil and Zamora at the three-hour lunch they shared at the Casa Rosada.

Cristina corrected on the limit a first unfortunate move that was seen by the majority of Peronism as a passport to a historic defeat.

Cristina thus corrected on the limit a first unfortunate move that was seen by the majority of Peronism as a passport to a historic defeat. «If you have already arranged, let me know, I am not going to accompany this ten-point formula,» bellowed one of the governors who pushed the reformulation of the formula when he found out about the Wado-Manzur binomial.

The united reached also shows an important level of generosity of the vice president that does not place any of her own in the presidential binomial. For the first time in twenty years, Kirchnerism will not be present in the presidential formula.

The irruption of Santa Fe’s Rossi confirms the worst fears of Governor Omar Perotti, his questioned leadership in Santa Fe’s Peronism faces an existential risk, as LPO revealed.

The chaotic way in which the formula was defined left situations to remember, such as the ghost photo of Wado and Manzur in the C Complex of Chacarita or the part-time resignation of Juan Grabois, who went down in the afternoon but after the tweet of Union for the Fatherland announced that he will compete against Massa in the PASO.

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