03/29/2021 10:37 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/29/2021 10:50
Sergio Massa, president of the Chamber of Deputies, joined Cristina Kirchner's request to the International Monetary Fund and
asked to reach a "payable" agreement for Argentina.
"What Argentina needs is to agree to an agreement that is sustainable, payable," he said in a dialogue with
CNN in Spanish
.
At the same time, he criticized Cambiemos' management and Mauricio Macri for having put the country into a kind of "game", which leads to paying "insolvent promissory notes."
On Wednesday, during the ceremony in Las Flores for the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, the vice president warned the international credit organization that the country "cannot pay the debt."
These statements generated that the securities traded on Wall Street fell as much as 3% and hit the prices of financial dollars, which fell 1%.
At the same time, country risk rose 4% and was close to 1,600 basis points.
President Alberto Fernández agreed with Cristina Kirchner that the country cannot pay its debt to the IMF.
However, four days later, President Alberto Fernández said that the vice president is right and that there is "no possibility" of paying the IMF in 2022.
and he stressed that the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, is working hard with the objective of "obtaining greater advantages" to negotiate with the Fund.
This Monday, the head of the lower house joined this position of the Executive regarding the negotiation with the international credit entity and said that "the most serious thing is the unsustainability of the agreement."
In that sense, he pointed to the government of Cambiemos and recalled that during the visit that an IMF mission made to him in November 2020 to Congress, he was told that technically the agreement they gave to Macri was unfeasible, "but that it was a decision." of the political staff of the Fund at that time. "
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