The latest indicators provided by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) were not positive for Alberto Fernandez. The president found that poverty rose, inflation reached 94.8% per year and the blue dollar exceeded $380. This caught the attention of Pope Franciscowho from the Vatican lamented the social situation in Argentina.
«In the year 55, when I finished my secondary school, the poverty level was 5%, today poverty is at 52%. What happened? Bad management, bad policies. Argentina at this time, and I don’t do politics, I read the data, it has an impressive level of inflation,” the Supreme Pontiff questioned in an interview with the Associated Press news agency. Given this, from Casa Rosada they did not sit idly by and responded to him.
Alberto Fernández himself took the post and replied: «What I must say is that while Perón governed another was the Argentine reality“said the head of state. However, this does not respond to the statements of Pope Francis, who questioned the social present of the country and not a political situation that happened many years ago.
“When dictatorial governments began to follow one anotheralways governed by liberal and conservative logic, they generated what they generated“, argued the leader of the Justicialista Party in dialogue with Radio La Red. In this way, the fault of poverty, for the first time in a long time, was not Mauricio Macri but of military dictatorships.
Gabriela Cerutti too
The leader closest to the president is Gabriela Cerutti, spokesperson for the presidency, who in the afternoon also charged against the supreme pontiff. «When the Pope says that politics made the economy as we all know, It was the product of these four years in which we are still tracing what happened in the macrismo“, he asserted.