Buenos Aires, Jan 13 (EFE).– The Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, expressed this Friday that he will finish his term next December “with the same assets” with which he came to power in 2019, in a speech where he tried to differentiate himself from former opposition president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019). at the start of an election year.
“I have my head held high,” said the Peronist president, who ends his term on December 10, after stating: “I am leaving the Government with the same assets with which I arrived.”
In an act for the delivery of houses in the city of Buenos Aires, Fernández, paper in hand, responded to the criticism of the former right-wing president Macri of the Kirchner government, at the beginning of a year in which the presidential elections will be held.
It has not yet been defined whether both leaders will be candidates for president in the primary elections next August and the general ones the following October.
«When I heard him say to Macri that my word loses value, it hurts me. Because what I promised to do, I fulfilled it,” said Fernández, and lashed out at the former president, indicating that during his term “what Argentina did was deteriorate.”
«I do not lie, I do. Because we Peronists know that doing is better than saying and doing is better than promising, Macri,” he replied.
In an election where the far-right “libertarian” parties with which the opposition coalition also competes will also participate, Fernández indicated that in his government “freedom is absolute and barbaric things are said” and that he prefers “abbaric things to be said before restricting freedom”.
The day after learning that inflation for 2022 was 94.8%, Fernández complained about those who “pre-announced” hyperinflation or triple-digit inflation and “the usual doomsayers who announced a catastrophic end” to point out that, for On the contrary, last year ended “with social tranquility.”
Fernández responded to Macri when he said that Argentina “must be the most failed society” due to the high level of poverty (43.1%, according to the Social Debt Observatory of the Argentine Catholic University), indicating that instead “it is a wonderful society that has recovered a thousand times from the Macri who passed through Argentina ».
“I feel that the Argentina of today is much better than the Argentina that I received in 2019,” said Fernández regarding the transfer of command that Macri made to him. “When this time is over we will have a thriving Argentina,” he promised. EFE
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