"Ask in front
," assured a close presidential collaborator who, late in the afternoon, left Casa Rosada and pointed to the Palace of Finance.
A while before, the president of the Central Bank,
Miguel Ángel Pesce
, had been meeting for a long time with
Alberto Fernández
in another day of strong tension with the markets that led the dollar to rise by $20 and close around $460.
"Pesce continues, of course
," added the collaborator of the head of state when the presence of the president of the Central had already motivated a wave of rumors about the future of the official, who maintains a strained relationship with the Minister of Economy, Sergio
Massa
.
In the midst of the exchange crisis, the
Government once again opted for silence this Monday
: neither Fernández nor Massa, nor
Cristina Kirchner
, alluded in these last hours to the new rise in the blue dollar that once again filled official offices with anxiety, three days after the President's announcement to exclude himself from the re-election search and in the midst of reports that, despite the results, insist on the presidential candidacy of the Minister of Economy.
"There is a phrase that says that
God summons his best soldiers for the most difficult battles
," Massa had said earlier in the CCK, in the announcement of the works plan for the Edesur intervention, surrounded by mayors from Buenos Aires, a phrase with the one that he praised himself and that he used to refer to Jorge Ferraresi, the mayor of Avellaneda designated for that task.
"They taught us that
in the face of problems you have to go forward, never back
," the leader of the Renewal Front added.
These were the only allusions by the minister that can fit in with the exchange crisis that is shaking the Government: Massa
has not talked about the dollar
for a while.
Nor inflation
: when INDEC published the CPI index for March ten days ago, at 7.7%, only Matías Tombolini, the Secretary of Commerce, rehearsed a press conference.
He had no choice.
In massismo they are aware that the shortage of dollars is serious.
"It is a very difficult issue, I don't know how we are going to get there
," a leader who orbits in the massista universe acknowledged to this newspaper.
Due to exchange rate volatility and the drought, the results of the implementation of the soybean dollar so far have not been as expected.
In this context, Massa seeks
to be hyperactive
: In addition to the act for the plan around Edesur, this Monday
he met with Chinese companies
for an investment of 520 million dollars for the construction of dams in the south of the country.
This
Tuesday
, he will have lunch at IDEA and announce the disbursement of 380 million dollars from multilateral organizations.
On
Wednesday
he has four public activities on the agenda, one of them promoted as "saving dollars" for operations with yuan for about 700 million.
On Thursday, according to the Treasury schedule, 680 million dollars from CAF will be made official by June 30, an event in Montevideo.
It is the first time that Economy has circulated such a detailed weekly agenda
.
Due to this activity in Uruguay, the minister will be one of those absent from the act that the former President will lead this Thursday at the "beloved and restored" Teatro Argentino de La Plata to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 2003 election that ended with Néstor Kirchner in The presidency.
This was announced by the vice president in a tweet that she published this Monday, although she has remained silent and hermetic for weeks regarding the political scenario and the delicate economic situation.
In Kirchnerism, anxiety is growing: Fernández down for re-election, now they want
Cristina Kirchner to provide certainty about the electoral strategy
.
If she is not a candidate for president, as is envisioned, let her point out plan B.
In the theater where she was launched for the Presidency in 2007, the vice president will give a master class entitled
"Circular Argentina: the IMF and its historical recipe for inflation and recession"
.
Within massismo they assure that the "rebalancing" of the economic program with the Monetary Fund that is being negotiated these days between Buenos Aires and Washington is essential to have at least a minimal electoral hope.
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