2023-10-05 00:38:00
Days before the elections, President Alberto Fernández closed the opening day of the 59th Colloquium of the Institute for Business Development of Argentina (IDEA), held in the city of Mar del Plata and took stock of his management. The president maintained today that “being with the BRICS, working with China, does not mean that one cannot work with the United States or Europe,” which is why he asked to “de-ideologize” the analyzes on Argentina’s incorporation into that trade bloc.
The traditional business event was convened under the motto “Argentines: Let’s get excited once more. Let’s make it worth it”, inspired by the triumph of the Argentine soccer team in the World Cup in Qatar in 2022 and to commemorate 40 years of democracy.
Firstly, the president referred to the judicial reform promoted by his government: “They always thought that the judicial reforms that we proposed were intended to benefit someone. And the truth is that we lost that media fight because all the newspapers were there. , all the media once morest it. We were able to see in Lago Escondido what the relationship between the media and the judges is like. And we were not able to carry out judicial reform. Now every day I am more convinced that if democracy has a debt in 40 years, it is doing a judicial reform that makes justice work correctly. “Justice definitely works poorly.”
“All the attempts we made to improve the quality of justice failed because Argentine justice is colonized,” he added.
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Alberto Fernández spoke regarding Argentina’s incorporation into the BRICS
On the other hand, he spoke regarding globalization: “At the time, businessmen took advantage of cheap labor in China. Now they are taking them out of China and putting them back in their countries of origin. And they are generating a new globalization of the most important thing, it is not the country, it is not the nation, it is the regions. Then the African Union and the European Union flourish, which has enormous difficulties to maintain itself because the fragility of the European Union, which began with Brexit, now has a critical moment, which is the war between Russia and Ukraine.”
Furthermore, he referred to the BRICS: “In their ideas they continue to believe that there is communism and capitalism in the world, and the truth is that this no longer exists in the world. There are autocratic governments that follow capitalist models, but communism as such does not exist anymore. And many think that the BRICS is a communist model. The truth is that the BRICS is a group of countries that met and that when those five member countries are added, and Argentina is included, it represents 44% of the world’s population. And it also represents 36% of the Global Gross Product. Nobody represents that. When I say nobody represents that, I mean the G7. The G7 moved to second place. Now, what characteristics do those five countries have? They are basically energy producers.”
“The BRICS also have a seasoning that has a lot to do with this time, which is the time of multilateralism. Being in the BRICS working with China does not mean that one cannot work with the United States or Europe. And there is no impediment in that matter,” he said.
Along the same lines, he assured: “In this time of globalization, what we have to do is integrate into regions, make Mercosur stronger, more effective. Things will have to be corrected but we have to maintain it, sustain it and promote it. We were talking with Lula to see if we cans before the end of the year sign the agreement for the European Union”
Finally, “the European Union began to understand many of our demands and changed many of the things that were originally signed. In truth, what most complicated the agreement with the European Union is that the European Union, following having signed the pact with Mercosur created a green pact that sets conditions for agricultural and livestock production that no country in the region can meet,” he explained.
“The truth is that the agreement can be an axis that in some way does not allow the commercial bipolarity between China and the United States to materialize and that this axis can further favor multilateralism,” he added.
The President took stock of management in his last IDEA colloquium
Likewise, Fernández took stock of some economic issues of his administration: “When we came to government, construction had 267,000 workers and the number today grows to 530.000. Tourism and gastronomy have been creating jobs for 24 consecutive months. And it was the sector that we supported the most in the pandemic with the ATP, which many companies received, and that we did precisely so that there was no drop in work.”
“Mining, which is the new star of the Argentine economy, has generated 39,000 jobs. There are provinces like Catamarca, where unemployment has practically disappeared. And these data are also to get out of that feeling that we are definitely very bad, because some speculate with the dollar and complicate things for us. And it is clear, we are short of dollars, everyone knows it. But these results are also the product of what you do in your companies.”
“We established a mechanism to recover income but we saw that wages were not growing as much as we expected them to grow. So, we wanted to make fewer and fewer workers pay profits. Today less than a million salaried people are paying profits.”he added.
Also, he considered that the agribusiness law should have been passed. “Argentina basically exports food so that others can process it and turn it into food for human beings, but what it exports is food that is consumed by animals and not human beings, and what we have to do is add value to that primary production and for that “The agribusiness law is central. They did not address it during our mandate, I hope they address it in the next one, but that they do not delay it, because it is a unique opportunity that Argentina has,” said the president.
Finally, he considered: “If we want Argentina to advance, we have to leave sterile debates. I feel that sometimes we are discussing things that I don’t even know why we are discussing them. It is simply to oppose. “Those who announced lowering the income tax for those who work, the day they have the law, reconsider whether they have to vote for it or not.”
“The crack has been very unhealthy for Argentina. When I talk regarding a crack, I am saying that we fully respect the rule of law. I believe that the rule of law in Argentina is not at risk. I do not believe that democracy is at risk in the year in which we turn 40. What I believe is that democracy is indebted to many things for its citizens. For a better democracy to be possible, what we have to improve is democratic coexistence,” he concluded.
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