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Live: Santiago Cafiero exposes in the Chamber of Deputies with criticism of "hate speeches"

2020-07-30T20:43:21.626Z


The chief of staff exposes in the lower house. He rejected the questions against the quarantine and those who promote "coup against a government classified as a dictatorship", alluding to Venezuela.


07/30/2020 - 15:00

  • Clarín.com
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The head of the Cabinet, Santiago Cafiero, appears this Thursday in the Chamber of Deputies to provide his first management report to that body and answer the questions of the legislators, especially related to the health and economic emergency that the country is going through in the coronavirus pandemic.

The coordinating minister began his exposition criticizing the "hate speech" that, he denounced, " tells people that there is no need to be careful anymore; it tells people that it is possible to divide provinces, that it is possible to incite coup against a government cataloged as a dictatorship and was legitimately elected by its people. "

Although without specifying, he thus rejected the questions regarding the effects of the quarantine against the coronavirus, the idea of ​​the deputy and head of radicalism Alfredo Cornejo to "make independence" of Mendoza and the constant denunciations of the situation in Venezuela. 

" The necessary transformations are nullified by any hate speech, " he added. I don't know

Regarding the crisis, Cafiero stressed that the situation "is caused by the coronavirus pandemic and not the quarantine ", and asked "not to enter into false dichotomies" because, he assured, the official actions jointly consider the issue of health and the economy .

After reviewing and defending the actions that the Alberto Fernández government implemented to face the economic crisis that was aggravated by the coronavirus, the chief of staff spoke about the post-pandemic scenario .

" Where is he going to find us and what is he going to find us doing is part of the page that has not been written yet . How is society going to be at that moment, permeable to what discussion, what debate, what proposal, is part of the task that we all have to build. Today we have the possibility of working on the aspects that the crisis exposed, such as inequalities that we cannot tolerate, "he said.

In this regard, and after noting that "we are in a crisis that is mounted on a previous crisis," he called for "focusing on inclusive growth . " He added that it will be necessary to determine "what the most relevant records will be when it comes to directing public resources."

"Surely the investment in infrastructure is one, surely the investment is another, but also the technological one and the investment in environmental sustainability," he added.

He received some applause when he stated that "as militants of the national and popular camp we are prepared to fight this battle." "A Peronist does not know what it is to give up hope, a Peronist in law is going to put his chest and he is going to take the country forward."

"I am sure, when Alberto Fernández, that he is going to instruct all his officials that they are up to the occasion. Keep in mind that surely we will do it under our doctrine and under our eyes on the world, we are a political movement that has spirit, look and history that some do not like, "he clarified.

At the end of his introduction, the first deputy to speak was Mendoza Omar Bruno de Marchi (PRO), who did not contain his criticism: "You have had a message full of hatred. How do you feel? Are you nervous? If you had complied with the Constitution he would be more acclimatized and would be the eighth time to come to account. However, it is the first time he has visited us. We know that he never liked the controls. "

Even the opposition legislator warned him that " liars and corrupt people can only be acquitted by a friendly judge, but history will sooner or later condemn them ."

Jorge Enriquez, from PRO for the Federal Capital, also took advantage of his presentation to question Cafiero's proposals. "I could see that his literary resources in the tweets are quite modest. I thought that his oratory resources were superior, but without this being an ad hominem disqualification , without also being homeopathic." 

After 16, the information session began with the presence of 222 deputies (40 in person), in which the official will give details of the Government's management, as established in Article 101 of the National Constitution.

The Head of Cabinet received more than 1,651 questions from the deputies, most of them related to the health and economic emergency as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, as reported.

This is the second report that Cafiero will provide before Congress, since the first was done in the Senate on June 18 last.

During the session chaired by the head of the lower house, Sergio Massa, the official will present his report, which will be based, according to official sources, on the economic measures promoted by the national government for the post-pandemic, after which he will answer the questions of each block. parliamentary.

Some answers advanced by Cafiero

The chief of staff sent him on Wednesday night the answers to the 1,651 questions asked in writing by the blocks.

In them, Cafiero assured that "the monetary issue for the rest of the year will depend on the economic and financial conditions that must be faced and on how the BCRA adapts its policies to these conditions, always respecting article 20 of the BCRA Organic Charter, that imposes limits on transfers to the National Treasury through transitory advances. "

Responding to a query from the Civic Coalition, the official reported that "the BCRA has monetary regulation instruments to manage the extraordinary expansion of liquidity associated with financing the fiscal measures implemented in the framework of the pandemic, without access to international credit and in the process of restructuring external liabilities, so that it is compatible with the needs of the economy. "

Regarding aid to SMEs, Cafiero pointed out that the Ministry of Productive Development launched "a series of concrete assistance measures to preserve the work and production of SMEs" and mentioned the freezing of rents, suspension of evictions, the temporary suspension of the cut of services for lack of payment, indicated parliamentary sources.

"A comprehensive package of measures has been worked out, which continues to be permanently modified. This atypical, historical and global crisis urges permanent dialogue with different sectors to see how measures are adopted according to the circumstances," he added.

Cafiero also pointed out that since the emergency began, "there is currently no evidence of an excessive increase in prices, as a price freeze currently governs in the framework of Resolutions 100/2020 and 200/2020. From these , inspections began to be carried out throughout the country with the objective of controlling compliance with the aforementioned regulations. "

Regarding the Emergency Family Income, Cafiero noted that "it is one of the measures with the greatest impact in terms of beneficiaries: it reached almost 9 million people and two payments of $ 10,000 were arranged so far, meaning a disbursement of almost 180,000 million pesos. "

"Of the total of IFE holders, approximately 27% correspond to holders of Universal Allowances for Child or Pregnancy for Social Protection, 8% to monotributistas of lower categories and 2% to people with income from other compatible social programs or private house workers, "he said.

In terms of tourism, he said that the area ministry "is working in full coordination with the private sector in the assembly and execution of all programs, since the articulated work between the public and private sectors is a fundamental part of the National Law of Tourism and one of the strategic objectives against the health emergency ".

"At the same time, the Argentine Chamber of Tourism made public its support for the bill that the Ministry of Tourism and Sports carried out with multiple projects to face the crisis in the sector," the official said.

In response to a consultation proposing the suspension of the collection of the PAIS tax, he clarified that "it is not the responsibility of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports to decide on the tax to be paid" and that "however, it is important to bear in mind that a percentage of the proceeds "from this tax" finance the development of national tourism ".

"Regarding 2020, 1,400,000,000 pesos were received for tourist infrastructure works in the 24 provinces of the country," he said.

On the Malvinas issue, meanwhile, he said that "the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that despite the fact that more than half a century has passed since the adoption of resolution 2065 of the United Nations General Assembly, which recognizes the sovereignty dispute over the In the Falkland Islands issue, the United Kingdom continues to reject the call for the resumption of sovereignty negotiations between the two States, disregarding their obligations under international law. "

"The Argentine government permanently expresses its will to resume negotiations and highlights to the United Kingdom its obligation to fulfill the mandate of the United Nations General Assembly in this regard," he continued.

Cafiero remarked that "within this framework, the national government is promoting a broad strategy in order to promote Argentina's position in the dispute. First, it intends to reinforce the search for international support for Argentine sovereign rights, both bilaterally and in multilateral forums "

Another of the topics of consultation was that of connectivity in the pandemic, to which Cafiero replied: "Enacom guaranteed that the educational portal 'We continue to educate' does not consume mobile data, so it ensured that it was free to use for part of the students, students and teachers ".

"It also reached a commitment with the companies that provide telephony and internet services to free up the use of mobile data in student access to the educational platforms of the 57 national universities," he added.

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Source: clarin

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