2023-06-14 03:02:00
Silvina Batakis recalled the circumstances in which she had to take over as Economy Minister following the resignation of Martín Guzmán, on whom she considered that she wanted to position herself “as a possible Nobel Prize” in 15 to 20 years.
In addition, the current president of Banco Nación stated that in her 24 days at the helm of the Economy Ministry she had to “discover a bomb and put it on the table”in relation to the handling of dollars for imports in the management of his predecessor.
In recent days, the Prime Minister of the Economy Alberto Fernández began to sound like a member of the electoral arm of the ambassador in Brazil, Daniel Scioli, for which the current president of Banco Nación questioned his administration of foreign exchange for the accumulation of reserves.
Batakis said that for every point that the Argentine GDP grows, the economy demands three points of imports and that during the Guzmán administration “He went to six points. That’s the answer to where the $60 billion dollars went trade surplus,” he added in statements to AM530.
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For the former minister, “by decision or lack of decision, Both things are serious, because you have to know that the great Argentine crises were due to a lack of dollars”.
“As soon as you can manage the reserves to make a mattress, you squandered it”sentenced the former Minister of Economy.
Batakis recalled that in his brief tenure at the head of the Treasury “what we did from a technical point of view at the Ministry of Economy in that month It was discovering the bomb (that Martín Guzmán left behind) and putting it on the table”.
Distribution of pesos and dollars
“You have to manage the pesos and the dollars and that was what did not happen. He had a team that should manage international trade and gave authorizations, they did not stop anywhere Or they were done together. If it had managed well, it would have had a surplus of US$60 billion,” he expressed.
According to Batakis, Guzmán’s economic team had to find a way to refinance the private debt, coordinated by the Ministry of Economy, “which You have to plan how many dollars you are going to need two years from now.”
Regarding the “festival of imports” that Cristina Kirchner pointed out in reference to the management of Martín Guzmán, Batakis said that it had to do with precautionary measures from the Justice “but many with authorizations from the Ministry of Economy.”
Guzman Nobel Prize
Regarding his assumption as head of the Economy, Batakis recalled that “the way Guzmán left the Economy Minister was a very strong blow.”There was no other minister who has come out like this. The departure of a Minister of Economy is always very stressful, but always with a transition,” he said.
“In this case it was very untimely and a very weak institutional and political situation was seen. Mine was more a contribution from the patriotic than from the technical”he added.
On the ambitions of Martín Guzmán, he indicated: “I think he had a perspective of making a career in debt that positions him 15 to 20 years from now as a possible Nobel Prize”.
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