The Peronist candidate for president of Argentina, Sergio Massa, received statements of support from two left-wing leaders: the acting president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, and the former Uruguayan president José Mujica (2010-2015).
In a video sent to the current Argentine Economy Minister, Sánchez said that Massa and his opponent in the second round on Sunday (19), the libertarian Javier Milei, offer “profoundly different” options and stated that the first “offers a project of unity, of solidarity, with opportunities for all”.
He accused Milei of “stridentity” and said that Massa “represents tolerance and dialogue to build an Argentina with inclusive development, which leaves no one behind”.
Sánchez himself defines his political future this week: this Wednesday (15) and Thursday (16), the Spanish Congress of Deputies will hold debates on whether or not to invest him to continue leading the Executive and will then hold the vote.
The process was marked by large protests against the president of the government of Spain, who reached an agreement to amnesty separatist leaders from Catalonia, convicted or investigated for the illegal referendum to separate the region from Spain in 2017, with the aim of obtaining the necessary votes. in the Congress of Deputies.
Mujica also declared in a video that, if he were Argentine and could vote in the second round of the neighboring country’s presidential elections, he would vote for Massa.
“It seems to me that he is aware, that Argentina does not need a cataclysm, but a backbone. National unity, because that is where it will have the strength to emerge from the drama in which it is immersed,” he stated. (With EFE Agency)
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