Pablo de León
02/20/2020 - 19:43
- Clarín.com
- Politics
This Thursday, during an hour and a half of the meeting, they sat around the same table in the Hall of Scientists of the Casa Rosada, the most powerful unions, the main Argentine businessmen and the officials responsible for the economic area of Alberto Fernández.
That appointment was transformed into the first meeting of the Economic and Social Cabinet , where everyone present highlighted the good news of the IMF's statements on the Argentine case and rehearsed, driven by the optimism of the officials led by Santiago Cafiero, a positive reading about the latest news of the economy : a January inflation rate of 2.3%, the lowering of the interest rate by the BCRA, the expansion of the "Care Price" program and the distribution of the Food Cards, which already reached the figure of 500 thousand delivered.
The leaders of the CGT, industrialists with ministers for the joint members met in the Casa Rosada. Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi
In addition to the satisfaction shared by the IMF statement that strengthens the Argentine position in the negotiation that comes with the bondholders, the idea of the Government was to talk about the "real economy."
There, the chief of Cabinet of Ministers headed what will be the first of a series of meetings where they intend to mean the engine of an agreement for the productive development of Argentina, which is "an initial kick to achieve the necessary agreements that allow growth to our country ”based on“ genuine and sincere dialogues like the one we could achieve today, ”Santiago Cafiero later declared.
"The objective of the government is to work on the reduction of inflation rates and the growth of real wages of the different productive sectors, which are in a major crisis and must return to the path of production and growth," he said later. to talk for ninety minutes with the secretary general of the CGT, Héctor Daer and business representatives such as the head of the UIA, Miguel Acevedo, Luis Betnaza, Daniel Funes de Rioja, Guillermo Moretti and Adrián Kaufmann.
Among cadres of Argentine scientists, Carlos Acuña (CGT) moved; Antonio Caló (UOM), Andrés Rodríguez (UPCN), José Luis Lingieri (Sanitary Works) and Armando Cavalieri (Commerce), the last to arrive.
Cafiero was flanked by the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán (in charge of telling the news of the negotiations with the Fund and the bondholders); of Productive Development, Matías Kulfas (with "Care Prices" among its points), of Work; Claudio Moroni (tie with the guilds); the head of AFIP, Mercedes Marcó del Pont; the president of the BCRA, Miguel Ángel Pesce and the vice minister of the cabinet, Cecilia Todesca Bocco, who monitors the numbers and the state bank daily.
The leaders of the CGT, industrialists with ministers for the joint members met in the Casa Rosada. Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi
The officials tried to convince their interlocutors that "the first symptoms of management are already seen", with inflation, "Care Prices" and the latest measures of the BCRA and the AFIP for cards and the visitors were condescending: nobody shows hostile in a first "tête à tête".
The metallurgist Antonio Caló graficó with a phrase, somewhat machirula: "It was the first meeting, where as it happens on the first date with a girl, everything was perfect," he said when he left Rosada.
A fact in which all the sectors coincided was in the salary, where everyone macheted that "fixed amounts are a good option to fight inflation ," one of the assistants told Clarin.
A fact that showed that the appointment was in tune with the current situation of the country, was that on the table, there was only coffee and water , Austeridad a rajatablas.
The leaders of the CGT, industrialists with ministers for the joint members met in the Casa Rosada. Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi