The Minister of Public Works of the Nation, Gabriel Katopodis, affirmed that the principle of agreement reached with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) it will not affect the investment in infrastructure planned for this year. “The decision is that it remains one of the pillars,” she said.
As he explained, the assertion that the agreement with the organism “will not affect investment in public works” was born from the decision of the President of the Nation, Alberto Fernández, “not to deliver the public work”. In this line, he warned that it is what the opposition wanted and the IMF.
“The conviction that there is a strategy to expand income, strengthen the recovery and also to generate new financing channels is key”remarked the official regarding the position of the national government regarding the negotiations with the IMF.
As for the opposition, more specifically Together for Change, he pointed out that he still hopes that they “make a self-criticism” because they were “the ones who generated this situation” by having gone to the entity at the time “They have to take charge and put aside the electoral calendar”he concluded.
Source: (Public Television)
The position of the opposition
The president of the PRO, Patricia Bullrich, anticipated that her space “is not going to deny the financing” that the national government needs today to agree with the IMF. “We took charge of our agreement and this government has to take charge of theirs,” he added.
In that sense, he indicated that the position is due to the fact that “the goals that are proposed with the agreement are different from those that Guzmán’s budget proposed in September.” Likewise, he clarified that they must explain how these objectives of lowering the deficit, emission and subsidies.
In turn, during her interview with Radio Miter, the former Security Minister made a “self-criticism” for having taken the loan of 44 million dollars: “If we had made the changes in the first two years of management, perhaps we would not have reached ask”.
However, he also tried to justify the decision that Mauricio Macri finally made: “Now having to take it, the best thing was to go to the Fund. It is the same thing that this government is doing: they took a loan of the same amount of money as the Cambiemos administration.”
