Horacio Rodriguez Larreta stated this Monday in LN+ that the “bomb has already exploded” in the country and pointed out that it is necessary to implement a “plan integral” to solve the serious economic problems of the country, among which he pointed out the lack of foreign currency as one of the most relevant to solve. He said that the country must grow and gave his opinion regarding a eventual dollarization.
“We have to make Argentina grow once more. Today the world needs the products that the country has. Food in the pampas, lithium in the north and energy in Vaca Muerta. There is a huge opportunity for Argentina to increase exports”, remarked the head of the Buenos Aires Government in statements to the program Nation+.
“The only way to end the problem of multiple dollars is with more dollars and that is achieved by exporting, and today we have what to do with it”he added.
The Pro leader distanced himself from an eventual currency exchange to combat inflation and price depreciation. He maintained that this is a “tool” and emphasized that the most important thing is “a plan.” “If we manage to make Argentina grow once more, what is the economic and exchange instrument is the least important thing,” he said in the cycle led by Luis Majul and Pablo Rossi.
In this sense, he opposed an eventual dollarizationas raised by certain libertarian sectors in comparison with the convertibility applied in the 90s. “Dollarization sounds like a magic recipe to me. It seems that you make dollars and everything is solved”, he indicated. And he added: “You cannot equate currencies when there is 100% inflation.”
Thus, the head of the Buenos Aires government ruled out that there is only one tool to deal with the rise in prices. He mentioned for instance the launch of the Plan Austral that temporarily stopped the rise in inflation in 1985 during the government of Raúl Alfonsín. “Since this was not accompanied by a comprehensive vision for Argentina, so that the country grows once more, a year there was inflation back”, said. “The question is not to take a measure for a specific issue,” she insisted.
Rodríguez Larreta maintained that people are already suffering from economic problems: “People cannot foresee 15 days of vacation.” He also complained that a kilo of apples cost $700 and criticized the declaration of President Alberto Fernández on the long queues at restaurants. “That’s a lack of respect. there are many people who do not have money to go out to eat, ”she said.
“That bomb has already exploded, but the problem is that it might be worse,” he asserted. He criticized the government’s high public spending and the lack of measures to contain the inflationary spiral. “To finance this, the government takes more and more debt in pesos, each time it has to take a higher interest rate,” he said.
“If every month inflation stands at 6%, if there is more poverty and an Argentina that does not invest, clearly the situation might get worse”, he remarked.
Rodríguez Larreta alluded to the inmates in the opposition and rejected the association that some sectors make with Sergio Massa by attributing a similar moderate speech to him, according to what the journalist Pablo Rossi explained to him. “I have nothing to do with Massa, beyond the fact that I know him personally “answered.
“I have nothing to do with Massa. To be clear. He is part of the Kirchner government and I am in the opposition, totally once morest what they are doing,” he said. “You made me an association that has nothing to dohe added, visibly upset.
Along these lines, he alluded to the differences between the sectors known as doves and hawks, within Together for Change. “It is not part of a subject of hardness in the speeches, but of hard facts“, said. “More than the speeches, what is important is what I do,” she added.
In the midst of the debates in Juntos por el Cambio, the head of the Buenos Aires government declared himself in favor of a competition in the PASO. “It seems good to me that there is an internal one, that the candidate is chosen by the people through an internal one. It is the most democratic way for ideas to be contrasted,” he said.
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