Tweets emerge from Silvia Lospennato supporting Sergio Massa in 2016: 'Massa is the PRO'

In recent hours, old posts by Silvia Lospennato, current candidate of PRO, have resurfaced on social media, showing a political relationship closer than she admits today with the former Kirchnerist Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa.

Among the messages that came to light is a 2013 tweet in which Lospennato shared statements from a Peronist leader stating that "in Tandil and many cities in the Province of Buenos Aires, Massa is PRO." The message now circulates as evidence of a time when part of Macrism saw the former mayor of Tigre as an ally.

However, the most striking post dates back to 2016, with Mauricio Macri already in the presidency and Lospennato established as a PRO figure in Congress. At that time, she wrote: "What a pride to see the republican leadership united for Northern Argentina," tagging then-President Macri, Gerardo Morales, Sergio Massa, Juan Manuel Urtubey, and José Cano in the post.

The contrast with Lospennato's current attitude, now one of the main critics of Massism, is a clear display of her hypocrisy. In the 2023 campaign and the following months, the deputy accused the former minister of representing "the worst of the past," ignoring her own shows of support in previous years.

This type of contradiction is not new in Argentine politics, but it becomes relevant again in a context of party realignments, where many leaders must answer for their past connections. Lospennato, for now, hasn't come forward to comment on the recovered messages.

Silvia Lospennato supported the Kirchnerist Leandro Santoro

Amid these posts by Lospennato, and just days before the legislative elections in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the PRO candidate expressed yesterday a strong support for the radical Kirchnerist candidate Leandro Santoro, representative of the Es Ahora Buenos Aires list, the list promoted by the convicted for corruption Cristina Kirchner.

During an interview on the A24 media outlet, Lospennato stated: "I know him, Santoro is not the problem with that list, the problem is the list, not Santoro," avoiding directly attacking the Kirchnerist candidate and directing her criticisms solely at the composition of the Kirchnerist list.

Lospennato's words, a prominent figure of PRO and backed by Mauricio Macri, are once again surprising in a campaign context marked by polarization between the national government, represented by La Libertad Avanza with Manuel Adorni, and the opposing forces, including the Buenos Aires Kirchnerism.