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To get out of Olivosgate, the Government rushes the 'economic agenda' and talks about recovery

2021-08-31T19:12:18.030Z


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Guido Carelli Lynch

08/31/2021 2:08 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 08/31/2021 3:41 PM

"If the debt problem is solved,

Argentina's takeoff is going to be fantastic,

" predicted President Alberto Fernández in June 2020, during a ceremony in Neuquén.

Fifteen months later, although "the debt problem" was not resolved,

the Government seeks to install twelve days before PASO the idea that the economy has already taken flight.

"We want to make Argentina grow so that it can stand up permanently, with more employment and production. Now the time for growth has come," roared the President from the stage, the only speaker at the event in Tecnópolis this Tuesday at noon, while He was heard by all the ministers, 50 mayors and all the governors of the PJ and pro-government candidates from all over the country via zoom.

There they were, to pay the official thesis, the LED screens in colors and with economic figures that are repeated, on the sides of the stage (and that in the previous one are mixed with the new spot against Macri and Vidal and the vaccination campaign) while the head of state spoke.

The economic plates that illustrated the President's speech are 6 in total,

almost all with arrows that marked a growth in activity compared to 2019, when Mauricio Macri ruled:

estimated growth (8%), public works (68%), industrial production (11.7%

), construction (5.5%), record exports (the highest in 11 years), use of installed capacity (17%).

The exception, the only downward arrow, is the one that marks the reduction of private debt: US $ 42 billion in savings.

For two weeks, the Executive has been trying to install

- with difficulty due to the countless official missteps, from the party in Olivos to the teacher in La Matanza and the Peronist "garche" -

the idea that the recovery has already begun.

Tolosa Paz, Gollán and Wado De Pedro in the act of the Frente de Todos in Tecnópolis.

Photo Andrés D'Elía.

Investments

are announced day by day

, some minimal, others not so much: the installation of

35 stores of the American pizza chain Sbarro

; the creation of 1,200 Mercado Libre jobs; the investment of the sports brand Penalty for more than 26 million dollars; the investment of $ 90 million from the balanced feed company Molino; the US $ 17 million from the German door company Renault; the growth of Argentine unicorns; US $ 50 million from Acabio for the largest ethanol company in the country. 

The President seeks to reinforce the message.

If before he favored his visits to vaccination centers, now he spends more time in industrial plants during his trips to the provinces.

He visited textile plants in San Juan and Catamarca and a metallurgical plant in La Pampa

last week.

Although the Government is at

odds with the Mesa de Enlace

, the economic Cabinet celebrates the

record corn harvest

.

E-commerce sales records and the sale of agricultural machinery are also on the rise, the ruling party maintains.

Months ago, a minister who is stomping in the suburbs questioned the temptation to sell "green shoots"

that the popular sectors cannot verify or take advantage of; another lesson left by Macri's experience. Now, with the injection of liquidity to boost consumption that the Government executed - loans for monotributistas,

reduction of Earnings

, increases in allowances and the minimum wage and the green light to update parity -, they say there is greater tranquility. The

meat consumption

was the highest in the last 12 months. For the officials of the Executive, the attendance to the restaurants of the weekend is one more proof of the reactivation.

In the official economic recovery discourse, the main omission is inflation, whose downward trend for now is too timid. Fernández makes no mention of it. "

The decline in inflation is not what we expected," acknowledged Chief of Staff Santiago Cafiero, weeks ago. 

Consulted by

Clarín

,

the candidates from City and Province spoke about it.

"Inflation is one of the problems that most concern people and that concern us the most. The measures that we have been taking in the short term are going to give results: the improvement of the result, the use of public spending and the change in expectations. When we talk about foreign debt, we talk about this, "said

Leandro Santoro

.

Victoria Tolosa Paz pointed out that in the second semester inflation levels "begin to soften. 

The President is not the only one trying to install economic recovery in the campaign.

Tolosa Paz mentions it whenever he can.

"Starting in September, we are going to climb the steps of recovery two by two," he said in Escobar on Thursday.

With more technical arguments, the Minister of Economy,

Martín Guzmán

;

and that of Productive Development,

Matías Kulfas

;

they tour the provinces and are shown with candidates.

The first will arrive on Wednesday in Córdoba, one of the most difficult districts for the FDT,

to have dinner with local candidates and businessmen.

Last week Guzmán participated in political events in Tucumán and Mendoza.

He attends the requests of the President and the Minister of the Interior Wado de Pedro.

Guzmán resumed his tour of the Conurbano and the provinces that already took him to Salta, Neuquén, Entre Ríos, Chaco and La Pampa, Río Negro and San Juan.

Kulfas takes his productive and management agenda to the districts accompanied by official candidates.

The only minister who spoke before the event is that of Labor,

Claudio Moroni

, who referred to the

meeting of the CGT with the President

on Monday.

"For them, unemployment is not a problem," he said.

The debt problem was not solved, although in some dispatches of the main coalition partners they circulated last week that an agreement had already been reached with the IMF.

For the Government, the takeoff started earlier.

"We still have the debate with the Fund. This agreement cannot be paid by the Argentine people, who have already paid too much," warned the head of state before summoning the

militancy to take to the streets

.

Source: clarin

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