The Economist Juan Carlos de Pablo spoke regarding the arrival of Silvina Batakis to the Ministry of Economy – who was appointed in the last few hours as the replacement for Martín Guzmán – and made some warnings prior to her consolidation in the position. “Don’t believe Gardel”remarked in LN +.
During his visit to the Business Community, De Pablo insisted that “we will have to see if the new minister is going to continue to be part of the problem” and added: “You have to give her the benefit of the doubt and be patient. I would also pay special attention to don’t end up believing [Carlos] Gardel, because it might happen”.
“You have two options: go to the Ministry and say ‘I arrived here and I have this plan’that if that happens we sound, or say ‘here the only thing I have to do is avoid greater evils’”.
Along these lines, he considered it important to also take into account that “in a fight between ideology and circumstance, he is going to have to prioritize the hot potato of the economy he receives and not his ideas”. “The work agenda is more decisive in her actions than what she can think of,” explained the economist.
And he completed: “What you have to do, more than ever before, is lower the decibels of the issue. Otherwise, we are in the oven.” After slipping those observations, de Pablo focused on the departure of Martín Guzmán. “What happened to Guzmán on Saturday followingnoon? His balls swelled”summarized.
He then highlighted that what Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner did since the former minister came to the Government was “bullying him”. “Something was going to end up happening. And that day finally came. this guy said ‘take guys, take charge’. And he made a phenomenal mess. They thought they were going to be able to keep hitting him.”
On the figure of Guzmán within the cabinet, he said that “he was never Minister of Economy.” He “he had the position but did not exercise the function. All he did was be a blah blah blah articulator. And the worst thing is that he never knew what he was talking regarding. So how can they criticize the results he got?
As a joke, he said that in the last 3 years the person who has worked in the economic portfolio was “Mandrake”. Finally, in the last stages of the interview, he returned to seriousness and predicted to finish: “From now on, the political crisis of the Fernández Government will be seen more clearly than ever”.
