The president of the nation, Alberto Fernández, spoke publicly after the settlement reached by the country with private creditors to restructure the foreign debt, which exceeded $66 billion. In that context, Fernandez highlighted the idea of appointing Martín Guzmán as Minister of Economy: “He was able to clearly interpret my political demand that it is time for people to stop paying the debt and a very successful strategy was given,” he said.
The representative also recalled those who criticized the minister during the seven months of the negotiation for saying “a Columbia college student and what experience he has.” In his interview with C5N, Fernández referred to the economic plan that part of the establishment asks to show a roadmap: “The last two economic plans I heard were prat Gay and Dujovne,” he began.
I want each and every one, to think as he thinks, to feel part of what we achieve. We are all needed in the reconstruction of Argentina.We are indebted to many Argentines and we will start paying it off. The best time is the one we can build from today. — Alberto Fernández (@alferdez)
August 4, 2020
He added: “Prat Gay said it was going to come out of the trap and the dollar wasn’t going to move, and the dollar rose and we didn’t get back from inflation. And Dujovne’s rectifying an approved budget a week earlier where inflation targets were totally distorted.” In another tranche of the interview, the president referred to the situation with the IMF, with whom he will have to negotiate under the Stand By agreement in which the agency disbursed 44 billion during the presidency of Mauricio Macri.
“At some point in the negotiation I got tough and two people said ‘look at the context and soften up’: Cristina and Roberto Lavagna”
“Within all the bad, thank God in the Fund was Georgieva,” Fernandez said, and recalled her first conversation with the Fund’s executive director, who said ‘they’ll do better if they let us do things the way we want to do.’ “The Pope (Francisco) told me that Georgieva ‘saw poverty in his childhood very closely and understands what poverty is,’ he argued in dialogue with C5N.
