Global Courant
None of the campaign commandos of the forces competing for the presidency believe that the presidential debate that will take place this Sunday in Santiago del Estero can be the deciding factor. However, Javier Milei, Sergio Massa, Patricia Bullrich, Juan Schiaretti and Myriam Bregman do not want to leave any detail to chance. They are all trying to avoid the mistake and have repeated the rehearsals before the production in the forum in the last few days.
The revelations and denials surrounding the mental health of Javier Milei, PASO’s most elected member, fueled the morbidity. The La Libertad Avanza candidate shared the flight to Santiago del Estero with Bregman. The libertarian economist, who targeted JxC based on rumors, will be the second speaker after the Left Front candidate who will be responsible for breaking the ice.
At least in their cases, their location on the stage corresponds to their position in the ideological arc. Bregman will be on the left and Milei on the right. The rest of the candidates will be in the middle. Twenty leaders from each room will accompany them in the auditorium. Like football players, they were expected to explore space individually.
The thematic axes of the first debate will be three: economy, education and human rights as well as democratic coexistence. Next Sunday there will be a rematch between the candidates at the UBA Law School, which will focus on safety, labor and production as well as human development, housing and environmental protection.
Milei believes he has the most to lose due to his favorite status, which all polls show he has maintained since the day after the primaries. The economist is not afraid. He believes he was schooled by his repeated visits to television, where he gained the popularity that led him into politics.
The Libertarian candidate will be able to rely on his notes (bullets, as he calls them), a request that he made through his delegate Santiago Caputo at the meeting of the Electoral Chamber with representatives of other forces and which Massa opposed.
Victoria Villarruel’s experience in the vice debate will be a beacon for the economist. If he is asked about the supposed denialism of his political force, he will be able to bring up the accusations against César Milani or, as he has already done, recall Bullrich’s past close to Montoneros. His later chief of staff and future Minister of Human Capital Sandra Pettovello and the ever-present Karina Milei helped prepare the candidate.
Unlike what Agustín Rossi did with Villarruel in the TN studios, there will be no aggressive or personal reactions from Massa to Milei. The Peronist candidate intends to value his opponent’s ideas and bring them to the level of reality to highlight their untenability.
This Saturday, already installed in Santiago del Estero, he completed the third rehearsal of the week in which he will try to be proactive and moderating. In the preview, Cecilia Moreau had to play Bullrich and Gustavo Sáenz from Salta played Milei.
Massa, who has experience in the 2015 debates, will try to defend his management at the top of the economy, a safe target for the remaining candidates, which the minister wants to counteract with the profit reform and measures to mitigate the effects of the devaluation. The economy minister will use the last block to raise the banner of a future government of national unity, a slogan that Milei does not believe in and which does not seem likely in the Bullrich case.
With the help of economist Martín Siracusa and the owners of her space, Juan Pablo Arenaza and Hernán Lombardi, as well as consultant Derek Hampton, the JxC candidate wants to make the debate a turning point that will secure her a place in the runoff.
The former security minister intensified the training last week with daily two-hour days. Her team believes that the debate will serve to test the new discursive strategy with which the candidate aims her weapons against Massa, but also against Milei. The president (graduate) of the PRO trusts more in the replicas that the debate allows than in the government plan that the candidate can describe. His employees are eager to show their true character before taking any action.
In Santiago del Estero, Schiaretti will once again propose to spread the Córdoba model to the rest of the country. The governor of the third electoral district knows that Milei and Bullrich attract much of the attention of opposition voters. For this reason, Hacemos por Nuestro País believes that Florencio Randazzo’s vice president has everything it takes to win. After flirting with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta before the closure of the lists, the outgoing governor of Córdoba will repeat an anti-rift speech with a federal tone and capitalize on the attrition that Massa is suffering at the hands of management.
They also practiced on the left side. Bregman prepared his strategy with a focus on potential overlap with the rest of the candidates and on differentiating his profile from the rest of his competitors. “Myriam has experience in previous debates, although this one has a specific format, but she also has spontaneity, solvency and the solidity of our ideas and she will propose that everyone wants to pay the IMF, except the Left Front candidate.”, the candidate summarized. to deputy Christian Castillo, who took part in the rehearsals. Bregman goes in search of the votes of Juan Grabois in PASO and the young voters who supported Milei against the establishment but disagree with the libertarian’s ideological background.
