The Senate of the Nation will debate tomorrow in an ordinary session the bill promoted by the ruling party to pay the debt of more than 44 billion dollars with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) contracted by the government of former President Mauricio Macri in 2018, with money from Argentine citizens that was fled abroad.
The session was called last night by a Parliamentary Decree signed by the Provisional President of the Senate, Claudia Ledesma Abdala de Zamora, from Santiago, who will lead the parliamentary meeting because Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is in office as President of the Nation as a result of her tour of Europe on President Alberto Fernandez.
The senators were summoned to the session, scheduled for this Thursday at 2:00 p.m., with a agenda agreed with the opposition that includes several issues, including various draft Declarations in homage to the Malvinas deed, on the 40th anniversary of the war in the South Atlantic.
However, the main issue will be the project promoted by the Frente de Todos to pay the debt acquired during Macri’s presidency with the IMF.
The project that creates the National Fund for the Cancellation of Debt with the IMF establishes that it be constituted in foreign currency, US dollars and its resources.
On the agenda, legislators will also seek to approve a project that recognizes the Interprovincial Treaty for the Creation of the Greater Argentine North Region.
In addition, several international agreements were included in the work plan, among which the recognition of higher education degrees in the Mercosur area stands out.
Grabois demanded greater emphasis on the persecution of those who escaped currency
The lawyer and leader of the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE), Juan Grabois, who is part of the Committee of Creditors of the Internal Debt, demanded this Wednesday before senators of the Front of All (FdT) “to lift the secrecy” that exists around those who currency and “greater emphasis” on the persecution of those responsible for these maneuvers escaped.
Grabois demanded in the Senate greater emphasis on the persecution of those who fled currency
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In a meeting in the Blue Room of the Senate with the members of the FdT interbloc led by José Mayans from Formosa, Grabois supported the government’s bill for the creation of a Fund to help pay the debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). ), which will be discussed this Thursday in session in the upper house.
However, the MTE referent stated before the table of senators headed by Mayans, Anabel Fernández Sagasti (FdT-Mendoza), Oscar Parrilli (FdT-Neuquén) and Juliana Di Tullio (FdT-Buenos Aires) his concern about the lack of information about the people who fled money abroad and about the “delays” on the part of Congress in advancing the investigation.
Specifically, Grabois lamented that the Bicameral Commission for Follow-up and Control of the Payment of the Foreign Debt had not yet been formed, recognized that the obstacles to its integration come from the opposition, but considered that the body chaired by Mayans has had “little activity” in the last two years.
The leader explained to the senators that “the nature of the committee he is part of is to clarify some processes that have been delayed” and he believed that “this house is largely responsible” for “not having an official report that says how much was leaked, who, where and how we are going to do to recover” those funds.
“Today the people do not know, they have fragments and that is the responsibility of the Bicameral, I want to say it with all the letters and I told the Mayans directly,” remarked Grabois, who also asked to move forward with rules for lifting bank secrecy for the recovery of the leaked money.
In response, Mayans clarified that the information about those responsible for the flight of currency “is not the property” of the president of the Bicameral, as Grabois maintained, and explained that the particular report on those who committed these crimes “has to be done by a judge after a lawsuit.”
The head of the interbloc of the FdT explained that the Central Bank, the AFIP and the Securities Commission are the organisms that possess this information but that as a consequence of the bank secrecy provided for in the law of financial entities it cannot be made public.
Grabois had stated that there were Bicameral legislators who did not have access to this information due to the existence of “secrecy” around the issue.
The vice president of the interbloc, Fernández Sagasti, warned that the only way to “discover who escaped” is with a law to make banking and fiscal secrecy more flexible,” an initiative by Parrilli that is still under study in the upper house..
“These data are encrypted in the Central Bank, in AFIP and in the (National) Securities Commission and it is through a judge’s ruling” that they can be made public, Sagasti said, adding that “the only way we are going to to be able to change it is with a popular initiative” since in Deputies “it will be quite difficult for these projects to come out”.
Say Tulliofor his part, pointed out that The Bicameral Debt Control is not made up of the responsibility of the opposition and coincided with Grabois in arguing that “secrecy is what has allowed the flight of foreign exchange in this country, which is what makes our country increasingly poorer” .
Parrilli, meanwhile, author of the project to create a Fund for the payment of the Debt to the IMF, maintained that during the Macri government 86 billion dollars “legally and illegally abroad” escaped and admitted that during the government of the Kirchnerism “currency also fled” but an attitude was adopted “to counteract” this situation.
“It is not that we have been immune, we were also victims but we had another attitude to counteract when the macrismo caused it and encouraged it,” he assured.
