10/16/2020 10:56 AM
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Updated 10/16/2020 10:56 AM
The national deputy Alfredo Cornejo, president of the National Committee of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), highlighted this Friday the "self-criticism" of Mauricio Macri and valued that he is not a candidate in the legislative elections of 2021 to obtain parliamentary privileges.
"It seems to me that his statements have a self-critical content, which is positive and clears an important doubt: that he will not be a candidate in these elections, something that had been rumored. He tries to assimilate Cristina Kirchner all the time.
Cristina was candidate to achieve privileges in the midterm election of 2017, so clear that that comes in pretty good,
"said Cornejo.
Asked about the comments that the former president made during his last interview, in which he highlighted the “remarkable and important consolidation” of Cornejo in the face of the intern of Juntos por el Cambio for 2023, the former governor of Mendoza said that it was "a little surprise. "
"
We have had many tensions but loyal, from both parties.
My questions were about the political strategy and influence of Durán Barba in his government, but we had a fairly loyal relationship in terms of telling us things," he said, in dialogue with Eduardo Feinmann in
Rivadavia radio
.
And he added, in that sense: "Self-criticism about the misconduct in his government and economically seems to me a good thing. Objectively, in the Argentine political leadership there were always failures and there is a denial of self-criticism, which seems harmful to me. ".
Macri and Cornejo with the current governor of Mendoza, Rody Suarez, in the 2019 electoral campaign. Photo: Together for Change
On the other hand, the radical leader was very critical of the economic course in the midst of the pandemic and warned that "there is a very great social deterioration."
"There are economic measures that do not make up a plan:
exchange stocks, greater tax pressure, uncontrolled issuance ...
all this is generating anxiety and social deterioration. We entered the pandemic with a bad economy and they have made it absolutely worse. It will be difficult to recover. of the errors of the quarantine. If Alberto Fernández does not swerve, we will not have adequate social results, "he warned.
In that sense, the legislator was "concerned" by the influence of hard Kirchnerism in the Government.
And he analyzed: "
Alberto has accepted the political program of Kirchnerism
: concentration of power in the Executive and having all municipalities and provinces eating out of his hand. As of the pandemic, the same happened in the private sector, with the ATP and the IFE They love that. This political plan is perfectly executed by Alberto Fernández. I don't see any moderation as it was presented in the elections. "
Lastly, regarding the president's statements that he is not going to "touch the deposits or devalue," Cornejo said: "Alberto says what he has to say ...
who is going to encourage from the Government to reach into the deposits or devalue? But sometimes those things happen the same, the hard way.
In fact, he doesn't want to devalue but he is devaluing. Objectively he is devaluing every week. "
And he closed, on the opposition role: "We do not throw fuel on the fire. They have been governing for 10 months and the economic measures they took have worsened the base situation. Every time we are going to have to raise our voices more, showing that the road is the right thing to do. on the contrary: it is not more tax pressure, it is not unbridled public spending, but investment ".
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