Jasmine Bullorini
05/13/2021 21:02
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/13/2021 9:02 PM
A day before President Alberto Fernández and the Minister of Economy Martín Guzmán meet the head of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, in Rome, the official Senate bloc approved the draft declaration by Oscar Parrilli that urges the Executive to Disbursement of the International Monetary Fund for the special drawing rights - estimated at
4350 million dollars
- is used to "alleviate the pandemic" and not to pay "debt or interest."
The initiative obtained
37 votes in favor and 25 against
, from Together for Change and other opponents.
As it is a draft declaration, and not a law, it is not binding.
It does not become an obligation for the minister.
It is, mainly, a political sentence of the block that responds to Vice President Cristina Kirchner.
The initiative, presented last month, was read as a new chapter in the fight between Kirchnerism and Guzmán after the frustrated departure of the Undersecretary of Electric Power,
Federico Basualdo
;
a fact that Parrilli sought to deny during the session.
"The media and the opposition say that it is an internal one. They said the same when this bloc sent a note to the IMF listing the abnormalities of the credit that the organization gave to President (Mauricio) Macri but the Fund agreed with us," he began. saying the former head of the AFI.
And he continued: "What we are doing is precisely supporting and collaborating with our Government and with the Minister of Economy to achieve the best possible negotiation and relationship with the current authorities.
The recipient of this project is the International Monetary Fund, which with We humbly tell him that he has to change the demands for the debtor countries
. "
From Together for Change they rejected the theory.
"This project is unnecessary and is abstract because the IMF did not say that this money had to be used to pay debt. The project never tells the Fund anything, it tells Guzmán what to use the money for and what not.
The only reason is to mark the field for the Minister of Finance, "
declared the radical Julio Martínez and regretted that the minister had not attended the commission to explain what he thought of the text.
Along the same lines, Martín Lousteau expressed himself: "Why do we deal with this now that the minister is out with the President? It is easier to call the Minister who is from his political space by phone and ask him to discuss it with him.
They should have his number of whatsapp
".
Senator Jorge Taiana replied: "
It has to be done now when they are in Europe because they are talking about restructuring the debt with the IMF, the debt with the Paris Club and we have to achieve better conditions.
Don't tell us how to defend our government,
we do so by questioning those spokesmen for the financial system who want to change the destination of the funds. "
The session began after 2 p.m.
without the presence of Cristina Kirchner
, who is replacing the President in his absence.
At the beginning - and after a debate loaded with crosses over the handling of the pandemic - the Frente de Todos ratified the three restriction decrees issued by Alberto Fernández during April.
Among them, the one that suspended presence in schools and the Supreme Court considered invalid for "violating the autonomy" of the City.
They do not contribute a single propositional idea, they promote hatred and that citizens do not respect health care.
They exacerbate that anguish, they
make a kind of carancho politics with the motto of the worse the better
.
That pathetic and erratic way of doing politics seems crazy to me ", shot the Christian Anabel Fernández Sagasti.
Then, the Buenos Aires senator Together for Change, Guadalupe Tagliaferri retorted: "The ruling party
will approve a declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court decree the Senate can not reinterpret the constitution and the failure of the highest body to interpret it
..
Thus it is, they believe that they are on the provinces, on the Constitution and on the Court
".
The ruling party also gave the green light to a project to reject the resolution of the National Chamber of Criminal and Correctional Appeals, against two of those DNUs;
and an initiative to establish September 10 as the
"National Day for the Sovereign Restructuring of the Debt of the States"
, in homage to former Foreign Minister
Héctor Timerman
.
