Guido Carelli Lynch
05/14/2021 6:56 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/14/2021 6:56 PM
After the underground war between
La Cámpora
and
Martín Guzmán
over tariffs, which sowed doubts about the real power and the future of the Minister of Economy, the main shareholders of the Frente de Todos closed ranks behind the strategy of the head of the economic portfolio to reach to an agreement with the IMF. “The minister will be the one to report on any agreement. If not, you will have to continue working, it
depends on Guzmán's times.
"They said in the most important offices of the Casa Rosada, the same day that the specialized agency Bloomberg reported that there would be an agreement in principle between Argentina and the Paris Club to postpone maturities and thus avoid default. The ecumenical support for Guzmán only reaches, for now, his responsibilities in terms of debt.
The versions of an agreement to defer payments again had their counterpart in the markets where Argentine bonds rebounded. The general balance of the President's tour disguised the
internal differences of the Government in economic matters
, which were again made explicit on Thursday, when the Senate approved
Oscar Parrilli's
draft declaration
. The text devised by the president of the
Instituto Patria
urges the Executive so that the disbursement of the International Monetary Fund for the special drawing rights - estimated at
US $ 4350 million
- be used to "alleviate the pandemic" and not to pay "debt or interest. ".
Although the project is nothing more than declarative and non-binding, the most trusted officials of the President - closer to the vision of Minister Guzmán than to that of
Cristina Kirchner
- argued that the end is the same. “There was a debate. It is appropriate that they be resources to strengthen reserves and all the policies for Argentina to emerge from the pandemic ”, they insisted.
Although the referents of La Cámpora in Fernández's Cabinet minimized the interpretations of the
statement released by the Buenos Aires PJ
against the rates on Wednesday, they also did not give the green light for a new increase in electricity, as Guzmán intended. In private, Interior Minister Wado de Pedro argued before his collaborators that he supported the government's action on tariff matters, but avoided commenting on the need for a second increase.
"The decision to increase 15 or 30 is an economic policy decision," they
reconstructed from their environment.
They also denied that this text from the PJ Bonaerense - even led by Merlo's mayor
Gustavo Menéndez
, formally, but with clear influence from the successor Máximo Kirchner - was a response to Guzmán's sayings last Friday in the Council against Hunger, when he argued that the
current subsidy scheme is "pro-rich
", a shot for elevation to politics inaugurated by Cristina Kirchner. "Due to a gossip - in reference to the war between Guzmán and Undersecretary
Federico Basualdo
- an important government decision was covered up," they pointed out in reference to the freezing of rates. In fact, it should be remembered, that gossip was paid from the highest levels of the Casa Rosada, the Ministry of Economy and La Cámpora.
The Ministers of Economy and the Interior, Martín Guzmán and Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro, together with the Governor of Entre Ríos Gustavo Bordet, when they made their joint tours.
Photo: Presidency
In the same way that in De Pedro he privately underestimated the criticisms of Guzmán, the Chief of Staff Santiago Cafiero defended the project that
Máximo Kirchner
presented
in Congress
to cut gas rates in different regions of the country.
"It is a project of the entire Frente de Todos," they said about the Chief of Staff, who remained in permanent contact by phone with the President.
The top delegates of the President and the vice president in the Cabinet, Cafiero and Pedro, try to transmit unity after the indisputable internal short-circuits. They transmit messages together to journalists and this week they traveled together to Chaco and Tucumán. "When things get complicated, they turn back to back and 'albertean' it," a collaborator of the Interior Minister graphed with a curious syllogism. De Pedro used to undertake
similar trips with Guzmán
, in the past, to discuss debt. The tours of that society were interrupted in the heat of inflation and the postponement of an agreement.
The balance of the Fernández administration is also moving at this time to the geopolitical plane.
Hours before the President showed up with the head of the Washington State Department John Kerry,
Máximo Kirchner and Sergio Massa
zoomed in on the support of the Chinese Parliament in the negotiations with the IMF.
Mauricio Macri was the bridge of the unit in 2019 and he is the computer to ward off the noises in the face of what is coming.
“The debt with the IMF is a stocks for development.
It is an inherited problem that Macri brought and turned his back on the Argentines, ”they repeat from all sectors of the Frente de Todos.
After meeting with the director of the IMF in Rome, the President insisted that the official will is to agree as soon as possible with the credit organization. "The vocation is to find
an agreement as quickly as possible,
" said Fernández in the Italian capital. His collaborators in Buenos Aires admit that there are no scheduled times and that the minister - who ignored the requests of the economic leaders of the opposition - has already achieved In its own time, saving the State $ 37 billion in private debt restructuring by 2020.
