Mauricio Macri adjusts his international agenda to favor his presidential campaign

Mauricio Macri monitors the national economy around the clock and plans his presidential reelection. He no longer thinks about his travels abroad and he is now in Asia, it is because of a personal commitment that he could not avoid. In early December 2018, Macri received the first Narendra Modi in Olivos, where they agreed to an official visit to deepen the trade and political relations between Argentina and India .

In the future, the president plans a brief tour in France and Belgium and will then travel to Japan to attend the G20 summit. He does not want to go to the United Nations General Assembly in September and has already resolved to abide by his entire geopolitical agenda from Buenos Aires.If the situation in Venezuela, the EU-Mercosur agreement or a summit with Donald Trump do not change his decision to focus efforts on a campaign that evolves with the complex economic situation.

For Argentina's trading partners and Macri's international allies – Xi Jinping, Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, Jair Bolsonaro and Trump – the head of state is a lame duck who disputes his stay in Balcarce 50 with a potential candidate who does not make statements and is accused of systematic corruption. In this context, overseas tours enhance personal ties between state leaders, but do not involve a single private company in favor of Argentina. There will not be a dollar from abroad until the result of the vote is known.

In the red circle, They blamed Macri for inviting Graciela Camaño and Agustín Rossi to tour Asia. when we know the position of these members in relation to the economic program that adjusts to achieve the objectives set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, the invitation of the president had a political objective that had escaped the attention of the protagonists of the local establishment: I needed to show outside that there was a political harmony inside, despite the fierce presidential campaign. He failed in his attempt: Camaño and Rossi said no.

Macri has always thought of his international tours to open markets, secure investments and improve personal relationships with different world leaders. This goal was achieved during the first three years of the mandate and the President decided to suspend his travels and focus on the election campaign. Macri hates being questioned about Cristina Kirchner when she travels abroad to carry out an ordinary protocol program millions of light years away from her real concerns.

After his tour of Asia, where he will travel to India, Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates, the president will visit France and Belgium. The political tension of the European tour will be concentrated at its bilateral meeting with Macron. If negotiations proceed, a political announcement in Brussels on the bilateral agreement between the EU and Mercosur is not to be ruled out. For the moment, Macri would arrive in the capital of Belgium during a courtesy visit: the technical differences between the two regional blocks persist and should not be resolved in the coming weeks.

On June 22, we will officially know if Cristina will participate in the presidential campaign. This day is the deadline for submission of pre-candidate lists for the OSP, and three days later, Macri will board for Japan to participate in the G20 summit. The president intends to do a little trick, but it is a requirement of impossible conformity: the deliberations will take place in Osaka and will last formally two days. It is necessary to arrive before, to prepare the bilateral agenda and it is not excluded that the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, proposes a bilateral meeting in Tokyo before the G20 in Osaka.

At this time of the year, Macri will think only about CFK and its electoral strategy. There will be four months before the first presidential run.
In the middle of last year, the president had decided not to travel to New York to participate in the UN General Assembly. He had already sent Gabriela Michetti in 2017 and planned to repeat the same political decision in 2018. But the economic crisis and the conclusion of the second consecutive agreement with the IMF forced a sudden change in plans and Macri went to Manhattan to defend its economic policy.

A day after Macri's speech to the UN and the resignation of Luis Caputo from the Central Bank, Nicolás Dujovne and Christine Lagarde announced the disbursement of 57,000 million dollars paid by the IMF to the accounts of the IMF. Argentina. At that time, the president had returned to Buenos Aires.

In the middle of an election campaign, Macri does not want to go to the UN and, if he does, it is at Trump's request to deal with the political and social situation in Venezuela. Nicolás Maduro still supports the White House's global diplomacy badault and does not rule out that Trump is using the UN badembly to reinforce his offensive against the socialist dictatorship. Macri is a key player in the Venezuelan crisis and will have no choice but to suspend the campaign and travel to New York.

A month after the first presidential turn.