translated from Spanish: Massa’s emotional letter to Meoni: “One of the good ones is gone”

The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Massa, fired Mario Meoni with a heartfelt letter that went up to his Instagram account along with several photographs of them two sharing political spaces and personal moments.

The officials were great friends. Meoni was one of the figures of the Renewing Front, a Peronist-oriented political party founded by Massa himself who joined the Front of All to form the coalition that won last presidential election.

“Dear friend: You’re not there anymore. Fate played a bad trick on you. But it’s quiet. I saw Laura whole and your friends next to her. I saw the Melli repeating your phrases, always optimistic about what’s to come. And I told all three of them I’m going to be the way you were by my side,” the Argentine lawyer and politician began.

He also recalled his beginnings in politics when he met Meoni and they entered into a deep relationship of mutual affection: “Remembering those hours that as little ones, you by UCR I for the PJ expected sessions in the legislature being the youngest in that 2000 bravo. I’m going to accompany yours as you accompanied me in every one we faced. Battles won, battles lost. Always friends,” the president of the lower house continued.

This afternoon the remains of the Minister of Transport were in his hometown. In addition to Massa, the president and several national officials attended: “I saw Junín on the street crying to you. You can feel pride. I saw your Sarmiento fire you. That Sarmiento you made me put the scarf on. A cold day. I saw respect. commotion. pain. But I saw, above all, gratitude,” he added and mentioned to Club Atlético Sarmiento that Meoni was a swell.

“I saw her in the President and your cabinetmates, because you shone. I saw it in our FR companions, who weep that your firmness and humility will no longer be present. I saw her in the eyes of that chick who, in a corner of your Junín, in courtship yelled at me in tears: “One of the good ones left,” she recalled about the ceremony that took place this Saturday after the minister’s death last night as a result of a traffic accident.

“I’m on the road, the one who played you the wrong time and I just get to cry and say, thank you, buddy. Because you were a loyal man as a real friend. Good friends in the bad and the silent in the good. Chau Mario Andrés, Sergio Tomás sends you a kiss. YOUR FRIEND,” Massa closed and uploaded a photograph of the route on which Meoni suffered the fateful accident.

Original source in Spanish