Former President Mauricio Macri questioned the national government on Sunday for the escalation of inflation, after the dissemination of the new INDEC data for April that was 8.4%.
"They never wanted to lower inflation," is the title of the text that the president published on social networks where he criticized the management of President Alberto Fernández and his Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa.
"It is inaccurate to say that the government of the Fernandezes and Sergio Massa is failing in its fight against inflation. Because they're not even trying. They did not take a single measure in these years to lower inflation. Neither price controls nor parapolice patrols in supermarkets are useless," argues the former president.
The full text
It is inaccurate to say that the government of the Fernandezes and Sergio Massa is failing in its fight against inflation. Because they're not even trying. They did not take a single measure in these years to lower inflation. Neither price controls nor parapolice patrols in supermarkets are of any use.
The only thing that serves is to be ordered. Order the public accounts and that the Central Bank never ever print banknotes to finance the State, for example. This is what the countries of South America did that also suffered hyperinflations like us and today have less inflation in a year than we do in a month.
But to do that they refuse. Because their political culture is based on not taking charge of anything and because they have wrong, old and marginal ideas about why inflation exists. They insist on the "lack of dollars", the "external restriction" or "multicausal inflation", all concepts that no one outside the country uses anymore (perhaps only in Venezuela).
That's why, with misconceptions and political cowardice, they were never going to do well with inflation. Every month they are surprised by the INDEC data, as if it were a matter of magic. And they don't realize that they're doing nothing, absolutely nothing, to bring it down. Quite the other way around: spending continues to increase, for politics and for a few. It is the government's own actions that pull it up.
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