Former President Mauricio Macri responded Thursday to criticism from Vice President Cristina Kirchner for the lack of dollars and the debt contracted with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2018.
"And now?", Macri responded on Twitter quoting the message of economist Fernando Marull with the following sentence: "When they tell you that dollars are missing because of 'the debt with the IMF', just send this graph, with a 'Besis'".
The bar chart shows values from December 2019, when Alberto Fernández took office, to May 2023. In green, agricultural dollars: 110 billion. In light blue, payments made to the Monetary Fund: 825 million. And in dark blue, the loss of net reserves of the Central Bank: 13,500 million dollars.
At the entrance to the last section of her speech, Cristina Kirchner casually made a criticism of the government of Alberto Fernández. "I want to be absolutely honest and say things head-on march, because some reality commentators must be saying 'now how are we,'" the vice president said.
And he distanced himself from Alberto F. "Everyone knows the differences I have had and have, that it is not necessary to explain them because I already said it," he continued.
The vice president said in Plaza de Mayo that "growth is being taken alive by four," after recalling that she had warned in December of last year, and said that the current government is "infinitely better than another of Mauricio Macri."
"I said there was going to be growth, but if we did not take care of the prices of the economy, growth was going to be taken by four alive," he said, and affirmed that "now growth is being taken by four alive."
However, the only time he named the referent of Together for Change was with praise for the current administration of Fernández: he assured that "despite the errors and differences" in the ruling party itself "this Government is infinitely better than it would have been another of Mauricio Macri".
He had alluded to Macri, without naming him, in other passages. As when he compared the state of the country in December 2015, when he left the presidency after "the Plaza de la calabaza" (as he baptized the demonstration of Kirchnerism to dismiss it on December 9), with the economy of December 2019, when Macri left the Casa Rosada.
"It seems to me that on that day, in 2015, when we gave an account in this Plaza, and we said that we had arrived with the largest defaulted debt and we were going out of debt and with the debt in dollars only at 8% ... The level of indebtedness was not only negligible, typical of a bizarre African economy, they said. Families and businesses were not in debt either," he said.
And he followed with strong criticism of 2019.
"When we returned, Argentina was again indebted in dollars. In 2016 and 2017 we were the country in the world that took the most debt in dollars. And when it could not be paid, what happened happened: the Monetary Fund again. But with an addition: they were no longer more or less normal standby loans. No, no, no. They gave him 57 billion dollars so that he could win the elections, an unprecedented, unusual loan," Cristina said.
Before the crackpots, he said: "It is not the pig's fault, but the one who feeds it."
But he returned to the charge. "If you compare the $650 billion I left them ... No, we left you, it wasn't mine, it was all of you, my bad. My bad. There was $200 billion less GDP and $120 billion more debt. That was done in four years by those who say they want to lead the country again," he redoubled the bet against Together for Change.
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