2023-04-18 12:55:00
He President Alberto Fernandez He assured on Monday that the Government’s objective is to find a solution for the “issues that remain unresolved and cause concern”, referring to the problem of inflationand also claimed the role of “public sector companies” such as the Arsat satellite, to later assess that these days are “30 consecutive months of registered job growth.”
The head of state also highlighted that if “the economic conditions” of the program with the IMF “are not met for reasons beyond the control of Argentine politics, then we will have to rethink it, and that is the enormous work that Sergio (Massa )”, pondered when leading the launch of the federal program “My Connected Town” from the Buenos Aires town of Benavídez.
Inflation: “It costs to go to the supermarket and pay the rent”
On the economic situation, Fernández recognized on the other hand “what it costs to go to the supermarket and pay the rent”a problem that, he stressed, the national State aims to “solve”, while vindicating the role of the State as the tool to work for social “equality”.
The president made these definitions following referring to what the initiative that progressively promotes access to satellite connectivity and digital resources in local governments means, for which the Nation will invest 761,129,032 pesos, it was officially reported.
In the act, the President referred to “some statement” that indicated that Argentines are “very disappointed in the last 8 years because politics does not respond” and, in this sense, marked differences between the four years of Mauricio Macri and the time that he has been in charge of the Executive as of December 10, 2019.
“The disappointment must have been very different. The disappointment of the four years that preceded our Government has to do with times in which unemployment grew, where inflation reached 54%, where the country got into debt in a way that it had not gotten into debt, where 23,000 fled million dollars in two months”, he pointed out. He did not mention that during his government inflation soared above 100% and the debt increased by 74,000 million dollars.
And to contrast with the present, he remarked: “The disappointment of the present has to do with the fact that 600,000 registered jobs have been created.”
However, he later acknowledged that despite these “30 consecutive months of registered job growth” there are “issues that remain to be resolved and that concern us”, in reference to inflation and the debt with multilateral organizations.
“Although we had to assume the debt issue, we were awake enough to tell the Fund to put a clause: if the economic conditions that this program projects are not met for reasons beyond the control of Argentine politics, then we will have to rethink it. And that is the enormous work that Sergio (Massa) is doing today”, the President then stressed.
Then he reiterated the importance of the State and warned that other political forces think that “the State is superfluous.”
He then asked for a “democratic reaffirmation every day” to “value the word of the people”, which consists, he said, “not only of letting society speak” but “attend to what the people need”.
Alberto Fernández, inflation, war and Oxford Street
The president recalled that in addition to the problems caused by the drought, “we also had an episode totally unconnected to the Argentine economy called war (Russia-Ukraine) and that had an impact on the whole world and how it impacted fundamentally on the increase in energy prices and at the moment of food prices”.
“It is a problem where in Argentina it is strengthened because we started with 54 points of inflation and therefore this problem becomes much more serious now it is a problem for the entire world.”
He then launched a comparison with London. “Days ago I sent the images to the chancellor, I sent them to Agustín (Rossi) too, the images of Oxford Street in London. The number of people living and sleeping on the streets because the state left them homeless. Argentina has another logic and our government has another logic. That is why I always say that these comparisons are sometimes hateful because not all of us believe the same in politics. We are different we are very different some some think that the State is superfluous”.
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