Argentina’s newly appointed economy “super minister”, Sergio Massa, 50, is a charismatic lawyer, former football manager and politician who has campaigned for both Peronism and opposition to Peronism since the troubled 1980s.
Massa is head of the House of Representatives by the ruling Frente de Todos (center-left), with whom he unites the power triad with President Alberto Fernández and Deputy Cristina Kirchner.
Like Fernández herself, Massa was chief of staff under Cristina Kirchner between 2008 and 2009, but later became a fierce opponent until she rejoined him to defeat former liberal president Mauricio Macri in the 2019 presidential election. The proverb says: “The most serious victims of inflation are workers, the unemployed, and retirees”.
In his new role, which he will assume after his dismissal from Congress, Massa will be responsible for the areas of Economy, Productive Development and Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, and Relations with International, Bilateral and Multilateral Credit Institutions.
Anti-Peronist start
In his long political career, Massa was mayor of the town of Tigre, located on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. In 2013, she defeated then-president Cristina Kirchner in the by-elections in the province of Buenos Aires, which symbolically suffered a bitter defeat.
The Kirchnerism attributed to him then connects with anti-Peronist Catholic sectors, the US embassy, and economic power. But as everything changed in politics, he allied with Fernández and Cristina against Macri’s re-election in 2019. “When you use anything to stay in power and divide society, you cannot rule,” he once warned.
Massa was the director of the Tigre club, which went to football’s First Division. He is married to another top Peronist official and official, Malena Galmarini, and they have two children.
There are still Peronists who question him for being a militant in the Sindicato de Centro Democrático, one of the largest anti-Peronist groups in history at the beginning of his career. However, he joined the government’s Justice Party (PJ) when right-wing Peronist president Carlos Menem (1989-1999) came to the Executive Power.
In the second decade of the 21st century, he formed the Front for Renewal, a group he still leads, to run for president in 2015 (21.9% of the vote), which he still leads, to oppose the Kirchners. ).
Massa is the son of an Italian immigrant construction entrepreneur and a housewife, both from Sicily.
source: Noticias
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