On his tour of Spain, the president Alberto Fernandez responded today to Cristina Kirchner’s criticism of her managementwhile answering whether he will finish his term and seek re-election in 2023. “Definitely,” summed up the president, in an interview with the Spanish television signal RTVE. In addition, he considered “morally indecent” economic sanctions on Russia for the war with Ukraine.
“Mr. President, do you see yourself with the strength not only to finish your term, but to stand for re-election in 2023?” asked the interviewer. “I am absolutely with all the necessary forces so that Argentina stands up, and I am going to stand up,” replied Alberto Fernández.
At his words, the interviewer continued: “I understand that you said, more or less, yes.
“Definitely, definitely”, emphasized the President, adding: “If something does not happen to us Peronists, it is that we never give up. They killed us a thousand times, persecuted us, disappeared us, overthrew us over and over once more. We don’t know what it is regarding lowering our arms.”
However, earlier in the day, the Madrid newspaper El País broadcast an interview with the president in which the president responded with a vague answer as to whether he would seek re-election. “I have been a soldier since I was 14 years old. I have never come to power to enrich myself. I am the son of a middle class family. I must have been the president with the fewest assets in history. What I needed I had: a house, an office, a car. And I lived comfortably. I valued things that had been left aside. In the Argentina of the present there is no one persecuted, there are no judges visited by spies to persecute someone, there are no tapped phones of opponents or anyone. Intelligence works to know the risks of Argentina in terrorism or drug trafficking. Freedom of the press is absolute, everyone says what they want, even nonsense. That may not be valued yet due to the economic problem, but it was achieved“, Held.
Specifically, on the criticism made by Cristina Kirchner to his management in his talk with The countryFernandez replied: “Cristina’s is a partial, absolutely economic view, which discourages the fact that we are experiencing a pandemic.”
In dialogue with ElDiario.Es, the President also alluded to Russia’s war in Ukraine. When asked regarding the economic sanctions once morest the country led by Vladimir Putin, Fernández spoke out once morest it. “These are sanctions that have very negative repercussions throughout the world,” he said, and continued: “I understand that they seek to economically drown a country that is attacking another. We are not part of it. For me, this tour has the purpose of talking to Europe and raising the concern of Latin America regarding the problems that are arising from this war. Food security and energy security are at stake in Latin America, in Central America, in the Caribbean… We are seeing how this war of the powerful occurs and we have to act asking for this to end, because the damage that is being caused to these societies is enormous. And I cannot watch impassively as they bleed to death looking for foods that reach exorbitant prices because those who contributed 35% of the world’s wheat left. My purpose is to draw Europe’s attention to all this damage. And I also do it feeling that Europe has been locked in a war of two, that it is not Europe, that it is NATO of the United States and it is Russia. And I propose that we do something because this is unforgivable following the pandemic. All these economic sanctions only hurt people more and for the countries of the periphery the damage is immensely greater. It is morally indecent”.
On the first day of his European toura, Fernández made these statements shortly following meeting with the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez. “The debate doesn’t worry me, I’m worried regarding the obstruction of the government. Sometimes the voices become so loud that they do not let reality be seen, ”he said, in another section of the interview. Cristina Kirchner had described as a “debate of ideas” the internal conflict that divides the Front of All.
Thus, the President also followed the same line of responses with The Journal.It, where he marked his differences with his running mate. “We don’t necessarily have the same view on some things,” she said, emphasizing: “There is a point where someone has to decide and it’s up to me to decide. And sometimes those decisions are not exactly the same ones that Cristina would have wanted. And I take full responsibility for those decisions.”.
“I am convinced that what we must do is put common sense into the economy. An economy that subsidizes tariffs for the rich is not a reasonable economy and an economy that lives with a fiscal deficit is not a reasonable economy. And we have to gradually work to correct those things,” Fernández assured.
