After learning about the 7.3% rise in inflation in the City of Buenos Aires, which in 12 months accumulates a rise of 99.4%, the head of the Buenos Aires Government Horacio Rodríguez Larreta pointed to the national government, in
a tone that exceeded
to what was raised this Tuesday by
his own political space
.
"In the City there was a higher rate increase than in the rest of the country, because the rate increase defined by the national government hits the city more than the rest," he highlighted in a television dialogue with LN+.
Larreta also upped the ante of what was warned by the Juntos por el Cambio national table in the face of the economic situation ("They are leaving an armed bomb for the people," the leaders said in a statement) and directly assured that "
the bomb has already exploded
. " .
"The problem is that it could be worse," he added, questioning the projections of the administration of Economy Minister Sergio Massa.
" 6% inflation
is projected for this month, 40% poverty
. The bomb has actually already exploded. People today do not make ends meet. When you have bread for five hundred mangoes a kilo, the bomb has already exploded," insisted the pre-candidate for president.
Regarding President Alberto Fernández's statements that people "complain because you have to wait two hours" to eat outside, the mayor of Buenos Aires considered the phrase "disrespectful."
"There are people who can't go to restaurants because they don't have money, they can't make ends meet," he continued.
And he again marked the rise in his discursive commitment: "
The bomb has already exploded, the problem is that it could be worse
."
"To finance this [the deficit], the government is taking on debt in pesos and each time it has to take a higher interest rate. That's what's serious. The government that spends more than it collects has to borrow for that," he explained. .
Asked about how his supposed government will curb inflation, Larreta preferred
to avoid binding definitions or precisions about measures
.
"Argentina needs
a comprehensive plan
. If you only dedicate yourself to curbing inflation... Argentina did it in '85 with the Austral and it curbed inflation. Since that was not accompanied by a comprehensive vision for Argentina to return to grow,
a year you had inflation back
. The question is not to take a measure for a specific issue, it is to have a comprehensive plan," he said.
In this regard, he assured that the country lives an opportunity because the world needs what the country produces, such as lithium, energy and food.
"That gives us an opportunity for Argentina to grow. The only way to put an
end to multiple dollars is with more dollars
. That is achieved by exporting and today we have what," he said.
He also defended himself on public spending in the City and justified the tax increase because, he considered, it was when "they took the money from the co-participation."
"
From one day to the next, 8% of the budget
. We lowered half in public works, the level that existed in the first four years of my government could not be sustained with the same intensity. We lowered public spending 4%, that is a lot. Half of the cut was banked by lowering public spending and the other half
was banked with a transitory tax
, "he explained.
Rodríguez Larreta: "I have nothing to do with Massa or Milei"
In the interview he gave on the LN+ signal, the head of the Buenos Aires government was asked a
profile comparison with Massa
-with whom he knew how to have friendly ties-, when asked about the polls, in a presumed scenario in which voters would prefer less moderate positions like those of Javier Milei and Patricia Bullrich, in comparison with him and the current Minister of Economy.
But
Rodríguez Larreta took off instantly
.
"I
have nothing to do with Massa
. He is part of the Kirchner government and I am in the opposition, totally
against what they are doing
. I have nothing to do with it. Just as
I have nothing to do with Milei
, who It is part of another political space," he shot.
"I have nothing to do with Sergio Massa. I am in the opposition, totally against what they are doing," Horacio Rodríguez Larreta said of the Economy Minister.
Photo Reuters/Agustin Marcarian
Regarding the latter, he attacked one of the libertarian's campaign flags and assured that
dollarization "sounds like a magic recipe"
for him .
"It would seem that you dollarize and everyone is solved. If Argentina does not grow and export more, there is no exchange recipe that will work. First the whole thing, first the whole and then the parts," he said.
And he assured that the hardness
is not of speech, but "a matter of firmness in the facts"
.
"I am in a position, as a government, that more than the speeches, what I do matters. In the City we have the lowest crime rate in history. The lowest infant mortality, that is where firmness is at stake.
No I believe in speeches from the rostrum
, let's see who shouts louder", he became emboldened.
And he insisted: "The firmness occurs when we agree that the national government wanted to close the schools and in the City we kept them open. That is
the firmness that counts, the one that solves the problems
of the people."
From Arietto to D'Alessandro and the piqueteros, the details of Rodríguez Larreta
Rodríguez Larreta also referred to the dispute between one of his security advisers,
Florencia Arietto
, who also supports Diego Santilli's candidacy for Buenos Aires governor, and who dedicated darts to Patricia Bullrich: "Turn all the curves to 180".
Florencia Arietto left Patricia Bullrich for Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and raised a storm with criticism.
"
I don't agree with personal qualifications
. I never do it with anyone and I don't endorse that kind of thing. It seems to me that our discussion is with people's problems, not between us leaders. You will never find me questioning or criticizing another Juntos leader for the change", she detached herself from her new official.
He also spoke about the
license of Marcelo D'Alessandro
, Minister of Justice and Security of the City Government, of whom he said that only one month of the three it took has gone: "
We have two more months to talk to him and see how he is doing.
his personal and family situation", he estimated.
Regarding what he is going to do with the pickets - this Tuesday another collapse of the Buenos Aires center is expected -, he reiterated an idea that he has been repeating for some time together with María Eugenia Vidal, which is to "
end the mediation
of social plans".
"There are demonstrations all over the world. Now,
like in Argentina, there is no place
where they are so frequent. These
social organizations that nobody voted for today have the authority to squeeze
the people and summon them to the streets," said the Buenos Aires boss.
And he warned: "We
are willing to put up with whatever comes
. This screws up people's lives. Another measure with the plans is that they are not eternal. It cannot be that they give you a plan forever. The third measure is that when the plans foresee a consideration such as the schooling of the boys... that it is fulfilled".
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