02/02/2020 - 17:16
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The support of the deputies of Together for the Change to the framework project to move forward with debt restructuring was not enough to suture the crack: the new head of the lower house Finance Commission, Fernanda Vallejos, anticipated that they will seek to move forward with the Bicameral Commission for Monitoring External Debt to, among other things, investigate the performance of macrismo on the issue .
"It is in our best interest to put the commission into operation so that society knows what happened , how we got here, and that this discussion we are having and this need to restructure a debt is not repeated again," said Vallejos in radio statements that he later replied on Twitter.
The economist, who surprised in 2017 by being elected by Cristina Kirchner to head the Deputies ballot in the province of Buenos Aires - with the former president in the Senate section -, fulfills another family mandate K. It was Máximo Kirchner who in His last speech encouraged the idea of reviving the bicameral.
The head of the K block actually responded to a complaint from his pair of Together for Change , the radical Mario Negri, who anticipated the request to reactivate the commission. Political Chicanas for the economy: in the midst of the crisis and doubts in the face of the ghost of a new default, Kirchnerism and Macrismo have been blaming each other's responsibility on the unpaid indebtedness.
"I very much agree that the Bicameral debt will be launched, whenever they want, we will start it to know how the debt process and the traceability of the debt was to know how the economy works in Argentina," said Máximo Kirchner when he had to close with his speech.
The Bicameral External Debt Monitoring Commission was created in March 2016 and has to settle for 10 deputies and 10 senators. Among its powers, "may request information, documentation or data from national, provincial or municipal, centralized, decentralized or autonomous agencies as well as national and international, private or public financial institutions; and any other body that is necessary for the fulfillment of their duties. "
But, according to official records, it only had periodic activity in 2018 , the year it came to meet five times. The last meeting scheduled on the Deputies page is March last year.
In the dispute of numbers on who is more responsible for the external indebtedness, Vallejos disseminated a work of "Economic Project" - a team of economists led by her -, based on official data, in which she assures that the external public debt " It went from representing less than 14% of GDP in 2015 (accounting for the debt pending restructuring) to exceed 45% in 2019, with which the public external debt, as a percentage of the product, more than tripled within four years "
