The resignation of Finance Minister Nicolas Dujovne in the midst of an economic crisis that swelled after this week’s sharp devaluation is a fact. This afternoon, President Mauricio Macri urgently summoned Hernán Lacunza, the economy minister of María Eugenia Vidal, who will replace him. The official bonaerense, who enjoyed his vacation in Neuquén, traveled to Buenos Aires and met Macri in the fifth Los Abrojos, in los Polvorines, in the match of Malvinas Argentinas, the resting place of the president.
The meeting took place after a week of altered markets, devaluation of the peso and doubts as to a new disbursement of the International Monetary Fund, whose technicians planned to travel to Argentina shortly, a mission that could be postponed. Dujovne had been left in the crosshairs of officials of the government itself, being noted as one of the responsible for the official defeat in the PASO, as well as the Chief of Staff, Marcos Peña. The owner of the Treasury did not make any of the announcements of the measures taken to try to cushion the impact of the devaluation and refused to make a statement at the press’ insistence.
“As you well know, I put everything of myself, both personally and professionally, to contribute to the construction of a different Argentina, modern, integrated into the world, plural and with the macroeconomic balances necessary for sustainable development,” he wrote Dujovne in his resignation letter addressed to Macri.
Dujovne’s resignation letter.
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