{"id":46946,"date":"2023-08-10T17:52:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T21:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/markets\/everyones-playing-dirty-in-argentinas-paso-primaries\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T17:52:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T21:52:44","slug":"everyones-playing-dirty-in-argentinas-paso-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=46946","title":{"rendered":"Everyone\u2019s Playing Dirty In Argentina\u2019s PASO Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Politics has always been a dirty game, but in Argentina&#8217;sPASO primaries the mischief came to the fore. The deisgnation of Sergio Massa as the frontrunner of the Uni\u00f3n por la Patria ticket was fraught with Roman-style betrayal. Things are getting serious and the political system is showing its true colors. Massa\u2019s antics \u2013 both to secure the nomination at the expense of his rivals and in the municipality of Tigre \u2013 act as a harbinger of things to come, revealing the level of his ambition and thirst for power. Ultra-liberal economist Javier Milei, in the eye of the storm for allegedly offering up places on his party\u2019s ticket for cold hard cash, comes as his star begun to wane in opinion polls. The libertarian still retains a healthy portion of the voting intention figures, which suggest he will have a say in the election and, in some respect, in the coming administration\u2019s capacity to govern. For Juntos por el Cambio, the opposition alliance that thought they had the election in the bag, the schism between Horacio Rodr\u00edguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich has threatened coalition unity, to the point where the Uni\u00f3n C\u00edvica Radical (UCR) entered into bitter disputes with Mauricio Macri\u2019s PRO party, historically a <em>primus inter pares<\/em>. The primaries are essentially a first-round vote and will set the stage for a much disputed general election where every player still has chances, much more so given the expectation of a run-off vote in November.<\/p>\n<p>Massa has a lot of detractors and has been identified as an ambitious opportunist by those who dislike him (it was Macri who previously dubbed him \u201c<em>ventajita<\/em>\u201d or \u201cpetty advantage.\u201d). Despite having once been a flaming anti-Kirchnerite who promised to end the corruption perpetrated by La C\u00e1mpora \u2014 the Kirchnerite political organization led by M\u00e1ximo Kirchner \u2014 he has ended up becoming Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner\u2019s leading candidate for president. The Frente Renovador leader worked hard to sabotage the aspirations of both Interior Minister Eduardo \u2018Wado\u2019 De Pedro \u2014 CFK\u2019s political prot\u00e9g\u00e9 \u2014 and Daniel Scioli, the former Buenos Aires Province governor who was also N\u00e9stor Kirchner\u2019s vice-president and lost the 2015 presidential run-off to Macri. Whatever he actually did, Massa secured the blessings from Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner and President Alberto Fern\u00e1ndez, along with the key support of provincial governors, probably in exchange for key concessions in every case. His allies appear to have been left off of some of the key spots on the congressional tickets with M\u00e1ximo leading the lists in the Chamber of Deputies and Wado in the Senate, and didn\u2019t managed to secure a \u201cunity\u201d candidacy with leftist social leader Juan Grabois desisting from having desisted from his bid. Grabois is much more palatable for the more purist Kirchnerites than Massa, a man with ties to the political establishment in the United States and the private sector in Argentina, but the economy minister could absorb a potentially tough electoral defeat without draining the Kirchners\u2019 political capital all that much.<\/p>\n<p>According to a leading economist who met with Massa when he took over the economy portfolio in the midst of a tough run on the currency last year, the Tigre leader never intended to put in place a stability plan that included a fierce devaluation. The official version of this tale was that he wasn\u2019t allowed to do this, given Kirchnerite pressure. If this is so, then it isn\u2019t clear what economic plan Massa could bring to the table, particularly given his personal involvement with the IMF deal. If he were indeed deceiving the electorate \u2013 which generally consider him a business-friendly candidate that will push forth with much-needed structural reform \u2013 he <em>could<\/em> have the chance of being electorally competitive, which <em>could<\/em> grant the pan-Peronist coalition a substantial portion of power, including CFK and her acolytes. Massa\u2019s voracity appears to be in play in Tigre too, the municipality where he became a strongman and where his wife, Malena Galmarini, is looking to compete for the mayorship against his successor, Julio Zamora. According to the current mayor, Massa\u2019s people aggressively pressured the incumbent and members of his cabinet, forcing resignations and attempting to get him to desist from competing in order to pave the way for Malena. Ultimately, Zamora managed to earn the right to run for re-election but the behind-the-scenes altercations point to an aggressive way of exerting political power.<\/p>\n<p>With Milei, the worst of the usual bad inclinations of Argentina\u2019s political system appear to be the norm, much to the distaste of a candidate whose main campaign promise is to eliminate the political caste. The man who promises to drain the swamp has been accused of selling spots on his tickets throughout the whole country, allegedly asking for anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000 in order to bear his emblem and run in his party, La Libertad Avanza. The main perpetrators are supposed to be high-ranking political organizers who were eventually laid-off, and Milei\u2019s team suggests the accusations are nothing more than the angry rants of those who didn\u2019t make it onto the lists. At the same time, he\u2019s allied himself with provincial leaders that are pure expressions of the \u201ccaste\u201d and is even being accused of teaming up with the Peronists in the Buenos Aires Province, both in terms of financing and in the make-up of his candidate lists. All of this is ocurred as the eccentric economist slid in the polls, putting him apparently below the Peronists and potentially out of the expected run-off.<\/p>\n<p><fbs-ad position=\"inread\" progressive=\"\" ad-id=\"article-0-inread\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\"><\/fbs-ad><\/p>\n<p>Things aren\u2019t going so well for Juntos por el Cambio either. Despite leading voting intention figures since pollsters began speculating over the election, they\u2019ve lost ground. Rodr\u00edguez Larreta has faced fierce opposition, particularly in the form of his rival, Patricia Bullrich, who has been leading a majority of opinion polls in a hotly contested primary. Antagonism between the duo has grown, calling into question whether the loser will actively collaborate with the winner, and help drag his or her votes over. Furthermore, there is also an explicit deal between sectors of PRO (to which Macri, Rodr\u00edguez Larreta, and Bullrich belong), and the UCR, the historic party currently led by the mayor\u2019s running-mate, Gerardo Morales. They had pursued an aggressive strategy to block Jorge Macri\u2019s bid for the mayorship, with Mart\u00edn Lousteau trying to get an upper hand. Rodr\u00edguez Larreta publicly claimed Jorge Macri is his candidate, but has played in Lousteau\u2019s favor. The cause could be a bitter dispute with Mauricio Macri, his former mentor turned opponent who has supported Bullrich\u2019s candidacy to the point where it she has become the front-runner.<\/p>\n<p>The relative parity in terms of voting intention makes it difficult to predict what could happen. Immediately after Massa\u2019s confirmation several surveys showed him potentially as the single most-voted-for candidate, an honor that had been Milei\u2019s until then. Beyond the usual suspicion that Argentine polls deserve, Juntos por el Cambio is still looking like it should take the election with the sum of the votes of its two candidates, while Milei and Uni\u00f3n por la Patria will have to battle it out for the second place, all within a very tight range. At this point, the PASO primaries are up for grabs and the way things are going, the quickest, meanest, and baddest candidate will prevail.<\/p>\n<p><em>This <\/em><em data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.batimes.com.ar\/news\/opinion-and-analysis\/only-the-quickest-the-meanest-and-baddest-will-prevail.phtml\">piece <\/em><em>was originally published in the <\/em><em data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.batimes.com.ar\/\">Buenos Aires Times<\/em><em>, Argentina&#8217;s only English-language newspaper.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/afontevecchia\/2023\/08\/10\/everyones-playing-dirty-in-argentinas-paso-primaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics has always been a dirty game, but in Argentina&#8217;sPASO primaries the mischief came to the fore. The deisgnation of Sergio Massa as the frontrunner of the Uni\u00f3n por la Patria ticket was fraught with Roman-style betrayal. Things are getting serious and the political system is showing its true colors. Massa\u2019s antics \u2013 both to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-46946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-markets","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Everyone\u2019s Playing Dirty In Argentina\u2019s PASO Primaries | iFintechWorld<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Politics has always been a dirty game, but in Argentina&#039;sPASO primaries the mischief came to the fore. 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