The session of the Senate in which the Government’s agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) This followingnoon he had some high-voltage passages and Chicanas between the blocs of the ruling party and the opposition. From the “sympathy” of Cristina Kirchner by Russia, going through the “flight of capital” during the administration of Mauricio Macri and arriving at the safe deposit box in the name of Florence Kirchner ironically cataloged as “formation of foreign assets”, the parliamentary debate was crossed by the classic political mischief creole
Before the formal start of the debate on the debt, the Riojan senator Julio Martinez asked to be invited to the President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, to speak before the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies regarding the war in his country. But Cristina Kirchnerwho was presiding over the session, practically did not listen to him, more interested in whispering with the parliamentary secretary Marcelo Fuentes and the administrative secretary, Maria Luz Alonso.
“It would be very good to listen to the president of Ukraine as he is doing in different parliaments of the world, that of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom. A similar initiative the head of the block of radical deputies, Mario Negri. This is not a project that pretends to be one more at such a relevant moment; For this reason, it would be important for our people to be able to listen first-hand to the president of Ukraine, his experiences, his needs. If there are people who do not sympathize with Ukraine or have some kind of sympathy with Russiathat it does not hinder this initiative, that it allows it. I hope you are listening to me, Madam President.”, spurred the Riojan.
Cristina Kirchner interrupted him. “You are exceeding your time, Mr. Senator”, Told him. Martínez, who was Minister of Defense during Mauricio Macri’s administration, continued for a few more minutes. Shortly following, at 2:30 p.m., when the debate on the debt began, Cristina Kirchner left the premises. The provisional president of the Senate took the post, Claudia Abdala de Zamora.
Martínez’s request made Cristina Kirchner uncomfortable and was made in a context in which the ukrainian president is appearing before different parliaments while his country tries to resist the invasion of Russian troops.
At the formal start of the debate, the president of the Senate Budget Committee, the official Richard Wardenounced that In “the same period” in which the 44.5 billion dollars sent to the IMF between 2018 and 2019 entered the country, “45.1 billion dollars” left Argentina. The informant member of the Frente de Todos thus quantified “the dimension of capital flight during the government of Mauricio Macri.”
Another tense moment of the session was recorded when Senator Martin Lousteau. “When one withdraws deposits from the bank and puts them in a box in dollars, that is also flight. Like other Argentines when they have mistrust in economic policy. Look what they say, look what happens. Page Note 12: Cristina Kirchner explained that due to distrust of Macri’s economic policy, he decided to transfer his savings of almost 66 million to dollars and obtained 4,600,000 million that were deposited in a savings account in the name of his daughter florence. That too is leaking,” she warned.
