The former Minister of Federal Planning, Julio De Vido, did not keep anything and strongly attacked the Minister of the Economy, Martín Guzmán, accusing him of “preparing” the candidates of Together for Change to prevail in the 2023 elections and that in this way there is an alternation “with the right”. In this sense, the controversial former official maintained that the increase in tariffs is “throwing naphtha into the fire” of inflation and cataloged Guzmán as the “campaign manager of the victory of Macrismo”, during a radio interview. In addition, he demanded that the government have more fortitude to “decouple” the costs of local energy production from international prices: “Companies and establishment economists do not want to recognize that energy production has a national cost of its own, workers do not earn in dollars but in pesos.”
“The cost of the cubic meter of gas should be in pesos,” he said, adding that he cannot afford to export “what is needed to satisfy local consumption.” On the other hand, he again took aim at Guzmán by stating that he “publicly acknowledged” that “the government’s economic program is the IMF program” and defined it as “a protocol of delivery.” “He’s a minister because Alberto benches him,” he said. That they do not lie to us, if they are going to increase the rates and do not increase the items that are subsidized, what they are doing is increasing the profitability of the companies,” he said. On the other hand, he blamed Cristina Fernández de Kirchner for electing Alberto Fernández: “He has to take charge of the decisions,” he said, adding: “Alberto was elected by an electoral college with a single member who was Cristina. I voted for him because of that.” He also clarified that Néstor Kirchner was alive, “Alberto would not be President.” “Néstor changed his Minister of Economy (Roberto Lavagna), who was good, when he had to change it,” he recalled and added: “After what happened in August 2008 (conflict with the countryside over the retentions), after having put Martín Lousteau and Graciela Ocaña, Néstor would not have trusted him.” Finally, he referred to the internal of the Frente de Todos and concluded: “I strongly support what Máximo is doing, going out into the territory and military and calling for the struggle. What he is doing seems positive to me, I supported his resignation, which was a concrete gesture.”
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