Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner questioned “the political irresponsibility” of the leadership of the opposition coalition Juntos por el Cambio (JxC) on the issue of the debt that Argentina contracted with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and considered that the The decision on an agreement with the credit agency “always had it, has it, and the President of the Nation will have it.”
The ex-president’s letter was later posted by President Alberto Fernández on his official account on the social network Twitter.
The vice president also cited in her publication the speech made by President Alberto Fernández on July 9, on the commemoration of Independence Day, and assured that she “fully shared” the meaning of those words.
“Never expect me to sign something that will ruin the life of the Argentine people, never, never. And I hope they understand me, because if someone expects me to give in to creditors or to give in to a laboratory, they are wrong. I am not going to do so. Before I go home, because I would not really have the face to enter that room if I did something similar, “said the Head of State in one of the paragraphs of the speech delivered on July 9 and that appear in the letter issued today for the ex-president.
The Minister of Economy, Martín Guzman, who a few days ago announced that an eventual agreement with the IMF should be debated in Congress, also posted the letter from Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on his social networks.
The former president spoke in this way in a text entitled “On silences and curiosities. On laws and responsibilities”, which she published on her Twitter account and on her official page, in which she refers to the debt left by the government of Mauritius. Macri, the role of the opposition and the media.
Of silences and curiosities. Of laws and responsibilities. https://t.co/9PAwlk268Zpic.twitter.com/fC7bfn4yYI
– Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) November 27, 2021
Fernández de Kirchner said that “several weeks ago” from the “hegemonic media, the sectors of real power in Argentina and, believe it or not -as I could read in print-, also from the International Monetary Fund (IMF ) and Wall Street brokers, “there is” speculation with ‘the silence of the vice president’ and her position regarding a possible agreement with the IMF “for the 57,000 million dollars that the Macri government requested in 2018.
In this context, he observed that of that figure in the management of the former president “the beautiful sum of 44,500 million dollars was disbursed in less than a year.”
“However, the most curious attitude comes from the opposition coalition,” he warned, noting that statements such as “‘we are not going to say anything about the agreement with the IMF until Cristina gives her opinion’ are commonplace in portals, TV programs and networks social”.
The vice president asked: “Seriously, the same men and women who brought the IMF back to Argentina, restarting the tragic cycle of indebtedness that Nestor Kirchner had closed in 2005, are not taking care of anything today?”
“Come on! Please! Politics must stop being just a television show,” he said and recalled that “as of December 10 of this year and for the first time since 1983, with the advent of democracy, Peronism will not have its own quorum in the Chamber of Senators of the Nation. “
Thus, he considered that “when the popular vote is sought in free elections without proscriptions, the responsibility of that representation should be exercised” and remarked that “even more so, when the elections have been won. Or what do they want the seats for? to collect the diet? Or perhaps to travel abroad with free tickets and per diem in dollars? To position itself for 2023? “.
“I must confess that I am not surprised by the political irresponsibility of the opposition,” he said and said that the history of Argentina “is plagued by political forces that came to the government saying one thing and did exactly the opposite once they passed through the door of the House. Pink “.
In the text, he alluded to the title of a journalistic note that said: “The IMF, Cristina Kirchner’s pen and the dispute that Alberto Fernández has intensified with the vice president,” published several weeks ago.
In this sense, the ex-president pointed out that “it is worthwhile here to paraphrase and correct the title that we mentioned at the beginning of this text: Cristina does not have the pen” to affirm that “she always had it, she has it and the President will have it. of the Nation “.
“And I’m not saying it, the National Constitution says so,” he said and asked that “no one be deceived about who decides the policies in Argentina.”
In another part of the text, he recalled that the country is still going through the coronavirus pandemic and warned that “our country also has the unprecedented weight of an unpublished debt with the IMF.”
In this regard, he expressed that it is “a historical moment of extreme gravity” and pointed out that “the definition that is adopted and approved may become the most authentic and true stock of which there is memory for development and growth. with social inclusion of our country “.
“And watch out! Nobody is talking about ignoring debts,” he clarified and stressed that “Kirchnerism” has “a historical attribute which is to have paid the debts that other governments generated”, when recalling the cancellation of the debt with the IMF by Nestor Kirchner and the restructuring in 2005 and 2010 with private creditors, “with the largest reduction in capital and interest in memory.”
Likewise, he stressed that “Today, as established by the Constitution and Law 27,612, it is not Cristina” and pointed out that “it is the 257 deputies and 72 senators and senators who have the legal, political and historical responsibility to approve or not how the largest debt with the IMF in the world and in all of history is going to be paid and under what conditions “.
