05/10/2021 12:42 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/10/2021 12:42 AM
Axel Kicillof came out this Sunday to
calm the waters
within the harsh internal within the national government that had its epicenter in the request for the resignation of Martín Guzmán and Alberto Fernández to
Federico Basualdo
, undersecretary of Electric Energy, which was not materialized by Cristina's decision Kirchner and La Cámpora.
"
I gave
Martín
a note
yesterday
, he returned a comment, there is no problem. I don't feel that he is wrong with Martín Guzmán, he seems to me to be
a good Minister
of Economy," he said in a television interview with
A24
.
The Buenos Aires governor had gotten fully into the dispute when he assured that
Basualdo "is an excellent official"
, at the same time that he criticized Guzmán's intention to increase
the electricity rate
again
by
around 6%.
With the current minister on a tour of Europe with the President, whoever was the head of the same portfolio during the government of Cristina Kirchner now lowered his tone, although he admitted that within the Frente de Todos there are "differences" and assured that he is not " a factor that unbalances the economy. "
"There may be differences, but they
are made internally
and the decisions are made by the President. I can have an opinion, but the resolution is not mine," he clarified.
He insisted that "in terms of orientation, there is a very strong unity. With
nuances, but in unity
."
"
I do not want to get into discussing the economy
. I am the governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, I have enough. I speak with Alberto, with Martín, with Cristina, with Sergio Massa, with Máximo Kirchner and with the opposition as well, but about the economic interests of the Province, "he emphasized.
In that sense, beyond having relativized his criticisms, he repeated the same arguments that he had used against a possible increase in rates, today slowed down after the crosses of the last week.
For Kicillof, it is not the time to think about raising, since the pandemic "affects the economy, social humor", and citizens are not in a position to take another blow to the pocket.
In his public reappearance, a few days ago, Guzmán had criticized the subsidy system that Kirchnerism, of which Kicillof was minister, always supported.
“We have to be self-critical.
Energy subsidies are pro-rich
in a country with 57 percent child poverty.
We are spending electricity and gas subsidies in a sector that is not a priority, in neighborhoods where high-income people live ”, he had stated.
This Sunday, who held that same position between 2013 and 2015, relativized the internal ones and indicated that "the Front allows diverse ideas to appear."
"Tarifazo a la Macri nobody ever spoke about it. Three thousand percent raised the rates with Macri," he took the opportunity to throw the ball the other way.
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