Massa and a meeting with a view to the STEP. /Photo: Pablo Añeli.
The Minister of Economy and presidential candidate for Union for the Homeland (UxP), Sergio Massa; the chief of staff and candidate for vice president, Agustín Rossi, and the minister of the Interior and candidate for national senator, Eduardo ‘Wado’ de Pedro, have been meeting since 1:40 p.m. with the governors of the ruling party, to analyze the electoral campaign for the open, simultaneous and mandatory primaries (PASO) on August 13.
The appointment is at the Federal Investment Council (CFI), located at San Martín 871, in downtown Buenos Aires, and will serve to diagram the campaign for the primaries.
At the meeting, which was scheduled for 1:00 p.m. but was delayed due to an act by the Minister of Economy in Tigre, lThe Peronist governors and allied forces will seek to dialogue with the UxP candidates on “the methodology of the campaign in the provinces” and the possibility of “continuing firmly with public works” in those districts, they said from the official coalition.
“We come to this meeting with the same expectations that we always have when we meet with our governors, mainly to analyze the execution of the national government’s public policies in each of the provinces,” Rossi said upon entering the CFI.
“The governors have had a more than important role in what was the birth of this synthesis formula with supportor majority of all our political space”Rossi stressed.
Photo: Pablo Añeli.
The governors present
Among the leaders present are: Axel Kicillof (Buenos Aires), Gustavo Melella (Tierra del Fuego), Mariano Arcioni (Chubut), Oscar Herrera Ahuad (Misiones), Ricardo Quintela (La Rioja) and Alicia Kirchner (Santa Cruz).
The list is completed by Juan Manzur (Tucumán), Gildo Insfran (Formosa), Gerardo Zamora (Santiago), Raúl Jalil (Catamarca), Sergio Ziliotto (La Pampa), Gustavo Bordet (Entre Ríos) and the vice-governors Osvaldo Jaldo (Tucumán), Antonio Morocco (Salta) and Analía Rach Quiroga (Chaco), among others.
The governors had met in that same compound on June 7, prior to the closing of the lists, to demand a list of unity on the pro-government front.
