President Alberto Fernández said Monday that he is not analyzing the possibility of competing for re-election in next year’s elections and regarding the internal Frente de Todos said that “tensions are not as important as the press presents them,” in the framework of an interview that he gave to France 24 channel from Bali, where you are to participate in the G20. When asked about the 2023 elections, the president said: “I do not think about that, my biggest concern is that Argentina enters a path of growth and better distribution of wealth.” Regarding the internal one in the ruling party, Fernández emphasized: “We have different views on some things, yes. What we are all sure of is the need to continue together to prevent the past from returning to Argentina. It was the past that put us into debt, the one that closed SMEs. We don’t want to go back. And for that we have to be united. We are going to solve things as they are resolved in democracy. My responsibility at this time is to govern and solve inflation, the deterioration of wages.”
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The President’s statement came just before Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s speech scheduled for the day of Militancy in La Plata, and the day after Máximo Kirchner’s interview in the Rebord Method, where the son of the Vice President affirmed that he worked “very well” with Fernández until the PASO of 2019: “The 15 or 20 points advantage maybe affected. Like when you go up the height and you start to sign up a little. Power is complex, it is not for everyone,” said the national deputy. The leader of La Cámpora also referred to the agreement with the IMF, which caused his departure as head of the ruling bloc in the Chamber of Deputies: “The International Monetary Fund with Argentina is criminal. It’s not right what they’re doing, it’s irrational, it’s not practical. When you look at the maturity curve there is no practical issue, it is unpayable, it is made not to pay it and if it is made not to pay it is because they will get more things, more things and more things in each renegotiation. ” During today’s interview, the Head of State referred to the surcharges applied by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which are “unsustainable” and stressed that Argentina claims not to be treated “with a kind of punitive interests.” He also pointed out that the war in Ukraine cost Argentina “5 billion dollars” due to increases in the price of energy, food and fertilizers and, for that reason, affirmed that “the amounts (of surcharges) must be reviewed.” On the war between Russia and Ukraine, the president said: “The war that takes place in the northern hemisphere is suffered by the southern hemisphere. It is also very bloody because there is a continent that is suffering: Europe. That’s why I’m proposing that we sit down to demand that the parties in dispute find a way out.” In other definitions, Fernandez pointed out that the agreement between the European Union and Mercosur is “difficult to implement” because “it does not take into account the asymmetries that exist” between the two continents. “The EU-Mercosur agreement was signed by the governments of Mauricio Macri and Jair Bolsonaro. These are very difficult agreements to implement for Brazil and Argentina. I believe that the link between the EU and Mercosur has to be privileged, but the agreement has to take into account the asymmetries that exist. The emergence of the European automotive industry can be a big problem for the economies of Argentina and Brazil,” said Fernández.
