2023-04-23 19:11:00
The Argentine director before the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Sergio Chodos, affirmed this Sunday that three economists from the “previous government” asked officials of the multilateral organization to do not provide assistance to Argentina until a new administration takes over.
in dialogue with THAT, Chodos did not disclose the names of those allegedly involved, but assured that they worked during the management of Mauricio Macri. According to him, the economists spoke with members of the IMF “to ask that they not give Argentina a front load (advances) or disbursementsunder the argument that if they wait, they will negotiate a new program with them”.
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“One who has his director’s wife doing trading, one suspected of laundering and one who declared default with a flirtatious name, they called different IMF officials to ask that they not give money to Argentina in this government“, explained the official.
Added to this, described the situation as “sad” and the economists as “unpatriotic” for his actions. “Sad because the debt we have was taken by them and by anti-patrias because the debt belongs to Argentina because of them and it was contracted to rescue private debt holders in many related cases and to finance asset flight,” he said.
And he remarked: “It’s sad and anti-patria also considering that the entire relationship framework with the IMF began to be discussed in the face of society, having passed through Congress, and not closed behind the back of the people and once morest their interests”.
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He also recalled that there were “internal irregularities” when the agreement was signed with the organization “behind the backs of Congress and society” during Macri’s administration. “This conduct also refreshes and can be linked to the opinion of the General Audit of the Nation that marks the internal irregularities of the agreement that the government signed in 2018 behind the back of Congress and society,” he stressed.
in dialogue with telam, the official added that “it would be necessary to have a little responsibility, especially following having passed through Congress and having the law that says that this has passed through Congress.” “The programs with the IMF involve all of Argentina, not a sector, having a factional idea and that we have to wait for this to be renegotiated with them, is totally irresponsible and disrespectful to the people and to the entire society,” he emphasized.
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“You also have to understand what it means to ask the IMF not to carry out the disbursements according to what is programmed and within what is foreseen in the financial program in the total number of possible disbursements, when faced with an issue such as the drought that is unprecedented in the last 70 years and that generates special stress on Argentina and the external sector“, he pointed out.
The Argentine delegate before the multilateral organization concluded that “Asking the IMF to disburse to Argentina is asking the IMF to force Argentina to default on the IMF. It is not understood how Argentines benefit from this type of behavior.”
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