“It’s like talking to a wall”: The government responded to Cristina Kirchner about the lack of gas

Through the presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni, the government responded today to Cristina Kirchner for questioning the sustainability of the fiscal surplus boasted by President Javier Milei and criticizing the lack of gas that at the beginning of this week caused the cut of supply to service stations and industries. With a drawn surplus (in my neighborhood they call it a trick) and without gas in the pipe,” wrote the former vice president on her X account, in the midst of the crisis, who also took aim at the government for the “officials who do not work” and the president’s new trip to the United States. On Thursday, the spokesperson defended the government from the former president’s questions. With a drawn surplus (in my neighborhood they call it a trick) and no gas in the pipe. During the government of the Frente de Todos, in online self-criticism, I mentioned as a problem that of civil servants who did not work. With the current government, the problem of civil servants who are not either…— Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) May 29, 2024 “What she says is on her, about the surplus she has already referred to and we have explained more than once the numbers, which are also public. There’s an obsession that since they didn’t do it, neither can we. Let him go and see the numbers, I don’t know on what basis he says that. I don’t know what numerical support he is using to assert that,” he said. Regarding the lack of gas, which the Casa Rosada considered solved by Wednesday night, he said: “The Secretary of Energy (Eduardo Rodríguez Chirilo) has given a magnificent explanation. Sometimes you waste your time explaining things to someone who doesn’t care about that explanation, doesn’t care, and it doesn’t add up to anything because when you talk to a wall, it’s a waste of time.” The government considered the lack of gas to be remedied by the early hours of Wednesday night, after the unloading of an LNG dam at the Escobar regasification terminal was approved.However, industry leaders said that the normalization of supply could take a few days and warned that the situation could repeat itself in the coming months. due to the increase in residential consumption in the face of a winter that is expected to be very harsh.

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