Ignacio Ortelli
10/23/2020 19:09
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 10/23/2020 19:09
On Thursday night, when only security personnel and a handful of officials remained at the Casa Rosada,
Martín Guzmán
took the opportunity to go unnoticed and cross without being recognized by the Ministry of Economy.
Accompanied by some of his advisers, the official who was
empowered
this week by Alberto Fernández explained, before a small group of officials of extreme confidence of the President and
communication strategists
, the keys to the direction he foresees for the economy and presented a much more vision. Encouraging than the one warned by economists and opposition leaders in the media.
The decision, at the end of that summit, was to
go out to give the communication battle
to try to stop the wave of speculation that multiplied in the last hours.
Inside doors, Guzmán fluently defended the latest economic measures, which tend to reverse the mistrust generated by the restrictions promoted by the head of the Central Bank,
Miguel Pesce
.
He stressed that there is a trade surplus, said that the noise of the markets and the expectation of devaluation are not explained in the macroeconomic situation.
In other words, a speech similar to the one he made on Friday morning on radio and in the afternoon on TV.
"We have to tell about this," they asked between the Secretary of Public Communication,
Juan Pablo Biondi
, and the Secretary of the Media,
Francisco Meritello
; who quickly reviewed the list of interviews requested with the minister. In this context, the
media raid
of Guzmán, who resisted raising his profile even when he reached an agreement with the bondholders and the Government even had his image measured in order to evaluate the possibility of a candidacy.
After the notes granted to Ernesto Tenembaum and Reynaldo Sietecase, and in the afternoon to Alejandro Fantino, despite the fact that the dollar continued to rise, the Government made a
positive balance
of the appearance of Guzmán.
"We have to give the debate, but that place (media) is occupied by another", is the reasoning of one of the communication strategists.
In Guzmán's environment, they agreed to the request, apart from the fact that the analysis made on the need to find a balance in their appearances did not change.
"The economy is a hyper sensitive issue. It is not about giving a note. Everything you say has to have a motive, that it beats the argument of others," they state.
And they warn that
an oversight or a misinterpretation can have an irreparable impact
: "That the Minister of Economy speaks is not the same as if a deputy or a mayor is wrong", they reflect.
Likewise, with Alberto F. on a tour of Misiones, the return received by the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero;
and the rest of the first line of the Government was positive.
Even from businessmen who did not spare criticism of the course.
