Cecilia Todesca: 'There are businessmen who do better with our Government, but they still vote for something else'

09/03/2021 10:36

• Clarín.com

• Economy

Updated 09/03/2021 12:11

The Deputy Chief of Cabinet, Cecilia Todesca Bocco, assured that the Government has "no problem" with the industrial sector, however she pointed out against the businessmen who are better off with the Alberto Fernández government, but still vote for candidates from other parties.

After the Government decided to send second-line officials to the UIA event for Industry Day, Todesca affirmed that in Casa Rosada they have "no problem" with the industry.

"On the contrary, it is where the heart of our policy is," he emphasized. 

But he added: "There are businessmen and women who probably do better today and do better with our government, but they still vote for something else."

"Everyone has the right to vote whatever they want, but

let's be honest about what the policy is, what the model is,

" Todesca questioned in statements to

Futurock.

"There can always be someone alive or someone alive who is not a good businessman or a good businesswoman ... But in general, people when they put their capital to work, put a factory, a business or a shop, what they want to generate is value for himself, employs and that is the wheel that rolls the economy.

no government can be against entrepreneurs can

not withstand much scrutiny

, "he added.

Regarding the absence of almost the entire cabinet, including the President, at the ceremony held at Cerámica Alberdi, a factory of gigantic proportions in the heart of a very humble neighborhood of Jose C. Paz, Todesca argued: "It was decided to hold an act in Chaco and it also seemed important to us to give the signal that not only in the AMBA there is industry. "

He considered that "industry is the sector of the economy that grows, generates quality jobs, good salaries and attracts other activities."

And he insisted: "We have no problem."

Todesca's statements came after criticism from Axel Kicillof, who fired at a sector of industrialists by stating that "they are not businessmen or nationals."

"Sometimes the businessmen that you see on television talking about the economic situation, who say they represent the national industry, are not businessmen or nationals," launched the Buenos Aires governor.

"We were meeting with SME businessmen who work side by side with their laborers every holy day. Those are businessmen, those who invest and think.

Peronists are not against businessmen because we know that we need a productive, thriving province and that grow,

"added Kicillof, who at the time of the Industry Day event in José C. Paz was in a factory in General Rodríguez.

The Government planted the UIA

To mark distance with the current leadership of the UIA, the Casa Rosada sent second-line officials to the event for Industry Day.

The Government appeared in parallel events, with absences that contrasted the attitude when the entity was led by Miguel Acevedo, who brought together almost the entire cabinet and the President himself.

This Thursday they sent Ariel Shale and Paula Español, Secretary of Industry and Secretary of Internal Commerce respectively.

In response, the UIA filled it with businessmen of the stature of Paolo Rocca and with the leadership of the CGT headed by Gerardo Martínez and Antonio Caló.

"

There are tensions that threaten the meat packing industry

, we want an Argentina with productive investment and business growth but we are concerned about tax matters, that we all pay reasonably," said Daniel Funes de Rioja, president of the UIA.

He was preceded by Shale's speech which lasted for an hour.

"You spoke of certainty; we want agreement with the flag of the industry," Funes told the Secretary of Industry.

"We want an Argentina that promotes private investment," he remarked.

Meat restrictions

In another section of the radio interview he gave this Friday, Todesca defended the restrictions imposed on the export of meat.

"We had an inflationary rebound process, we talked with the sector for months looking for alternatives ... What we say is that they can export one part and the other they have to dump to the domestic market.

It cannot be, the roast increased 100% in a year,

"he acknowledged.

"When international prices go up, they sell it high abroad in dollars and they want the same price in the domestic market. Outside prices drag down inside prices.

The withholdings are not to punish anyone: they are to lower prices.

", I consider.

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