Massa, two weeks before the runoff: “A country is not built by selling organs, but with heart”

In the final stretch of the campaign for the runoff, Sergio Massa, current Minister of Economy and presidential candidate for the Union for the Homeland (UxP), spoke with residents of San Fernando this Sunday and pointed a clear message against Javier Milei, candidate of La Libertad Avanza (LLA). Tell them that a country is not built by selling organs, but by heart. The Argentina that is coming is built with the heart,” Massa shouted in front of a crowd gathered in the northern town of Buenos Aires. In a country where they want to privatize health, what we tell them is that we want health care to be free so that they can live and be cared for, those who can pay a prepaid plan, but also those who cannot pay and trust the public health system,” he added later. In this sense, the presidential candidate pointed out the battle of ideals that will define the destiny of the country in the second round. “Article 19 defines very important things, it defines whether workers are entitled to paid holidays or not, whether workers are entitled to compensation or not, whether workers have a collective bargaining agreement or not. We defend work with rights, we don’t want slaves in Argentina, we want well-paid workers,” he said. “We want better pensions, more medicines, more protection for our retirees, who are the ones who worked all their lives in the retirement system of our country,” he remarked at the time. Likewise, the Minister of Economy emphasized equal opportunities as one of the main rights at stake in the upcoming elections. “If there is something that makes Argentina great, it is equal opportunities, it is that the son of a laborer or an unemployed person can dream of being an engineer, a lawyer or president,” he said. Finally, he spoke about the Argentine government’s claim to the Malvinas Islands and the position of the Milei space in this regard. “I want to tell you something very important: they want to privatize trains, they want to privatize water and sewers, they want to privatize the asphalting of the streets. But also, even worse, they want to hand over our Falklands. The blood of our veterans and our fallen is not negotiable, the Malvinas were, are and will be Argentine,” Massa added.

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