02/17/2020 - 14:59
- Clarín.com
- Politics
After the head of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, warned that the agency cannot grant debt relief as Cristina Kirchner requested, President Alberto Fernández returned to support the vice president's request.
"What Cristina said is of an absolutely valid rational analysis ," Fernandez said, and recalled that, during the presidential campaign, he had already warned that "the IMF had failed its statutory obligations" by lending the money to Argentina.
"The IMF has failed to provide its obligations by lending money to a compulsive credit taker, who everyone knew it was to finance the flight of foreign currency," the president questioned, pointing to former President Mauricio Macri.
And he extended his claim to the international credit agency: "If he was able to do that, he could reflect and take this into account."
Fernandez also criticized that "part of the reality of Argentina is to show Cristina and me all day confronting" and added: "If they knew how we understand Cristina, they would not waste time anymore, because they go astray there."
What the IMF head said
The head of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva , warned in the last hours that the agency has a “legal formulation” that prevents it from granting debtor countries removals.
Thus, the official confirmed the position of the agency, which days ago had rejected the sayings of Vice President Cristina Kirchner, who had claimed from Cuba a take away from the Argentine debt.
"Our legal formulation is such that we cannot take measures that may be possible for others without this great global responsibility," Georgieva said during an interview with Bloomberg on Sunday.