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Santiago Cafiero: 'We do not want to be opinions or therapeutic companions of inflation, we want to solve it'

2021-02-13T17:10:22.629Z


The chief of staff said that the government will promote dialogue on prices, but that it wants "concrete results."


02/13/2021 1:51 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Economy

Updated 02/13/2021 1:51 PM

After the meeting between the Government and businessmen to establish agreements on inflationary expectations for the year (which the Minister of Economy Martín Guzmán set at 29%), the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, said this Saturday that the national government "will always to promote dialogue ", but wants

" concrete results "

.

"For this to be the last crisis we have to generate agreements. Because if these eternal bids are not, all they do is put winners and losers permanently in bid, and it is part of a society that can never advance. All that growth that sometimes it is generated, which we are seeing now, if we do not do it based on agreements, 

that growth will go to four alive and it will not be distributed,

"said Santiago Cafiero. 

In turn, he referred to the objective of the meeting with the businessmen that he had the day before the meeting with trade unionists.

"We need to lay the foundations to align expectations between prices and wages, that wages beat inflation and that there is a real recovery in wages. For that to happen we need to generate sustained agreements over time," added Cafiero in dialogue with the program. "It arrived on Saturday" of Radio 10.

The Chief of Cabinet, Santiago Cafiero;

and the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán;

once again they were the hosts of the second meeting for the price and wage pact.

On the other hand, Cafiero insisted on the economic growth of 2021. "This year we have the possibility of growth, let's discuss where that growth is going. We are

going to promote roundtables

, which is what we have been doing, but we want concrete results. We have tools to channel those expectations of profitability and put them in a framework in which the economic growth that we are going to have this year is not taken away by four alive, "he repeated.

"That is what we need, that the effort of the Argentineans does not go through the gutter of prices and inflation. We have shown employers and workers that Argentina when it grows is when salaries and pensions beat the prices, "added the Chief of Cabinet of Ministers.

And on the other hand, he tested a theory about inflation in the country: "The blame for inflation must be found in different levels: macroeconomic and monetary issues, the exchange rate; fiscal issues, the collection ratio, of what it collects and it spends; and then the distributive bid, and therefore these tables of expectations alignment. The sectors that see that they have the possibility of recovering re

ntability and workers who see the possibility of recovering wages in real terms.

All these kinds of things are chained with some speculation and that's where

we have to be adamant

. "

"What we least want is to be

opinionated or therapeutic companions

of inflation, we want to solve it, that is why we generate public policies with m

those in agreement and specific tools such as Care Prices, Maximum Prices, agreement with meat, the Gondolas Law, "Cafiero listed.

At the meeting of the Social Agreement were Santiago Cafiero, Cecilia Todesca, Martín Guzmán and the head of the CGT, Héctor Daer.

And he concluded: "This week we had more than

140 sanctions and closings

of businesses because they were not respecting prices. In the context in which inflation is playing."

Changes in Earnings

In addition to prices and inflation, the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers also referred to the official proposal of the change in the non-taxable minimum of the Income Tax to raise it to $ 150 thousand.

"It is part of a discussion that real wages beat inflation because 1,200,000 people are going to stop paying income tax and [that money] is going to be used for consumption. There is

no speculative capital

there. the possibility of accessing one more good, one more consumer service. We have ordered the extension of the extraordinary period so that the project can be treated, "said Cafiero, adding:" The expectation is that it be approved as soon as possible. " .

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Source: clarin

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