Referents from different chambers and business entities highlighted the speech given by President Alberto Fernández at the opening of the ordinary sessions of the National Congress and they agreed on the need to close an agreement with the IMF and boost the country’s growth.
“I agree with the vision of the President expressed in his speech before Congress, that Argentina’s way out of its endemic economic problems is with a global program of economic growth,” said the vice president of the Pro Tejer Foundation and member of the Committee Executive of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), Jorge Sorabilla.
For the businessman, this growth will occur with “policies that promote the generation of national added value, led by industry and the countryside, with a growing demand for formalized private employment and better wages, promoting education and the incorporation of better technologies whose objective is be greater productivity and competitiveness. Only then can we honor our debts in a sustainable and permanent way.”
For his part, also from the textile sector, the CEO of TN&Platex, Teddy Karagozian, said that “for us as industrialists, it is essential that the President put in the center of the scene the relevance of the productive engine for the present and future of the country and its central dynamics for the generation of work at the federal level”.
In addition, he considered “interesting the sectoral proposals within the framework of laws that must pass through Congress, but in my opinion without mentioning the fundamental need for a tax reform.”
Karagozian also fought for “an improvement in the labor scheme that encourages the formal hiring of workers.”
On the side of the rural entities, the president of the Argentine Rural Society (SRA), Nicolás Pino, stressed that “export rights have been eliminated for some products of regional economies”, as Fernández reviewed in Congress, although he asked to correct the exchange rate gap.
Regarding production, Pino agreed that “we must grow through exports,” although he considered that the Government is taking measures that go against the possibility of making larger shipments.
On another level, the president of Industriales Pymes Argentinos (IPA), Daniel Rosato, stated that “it is very important that the President has placed SMEs as the central axis of growth, because it marks a path of certainty for the future of factories, that we think about investment and job creation”.
In this sense, he highlighted that “in order to achieve this growth, the agreement with the IMF is essential to achieve reintegration into international markets and especially to have access to financing to develop these investments.”
The General Business Confederation of the Argentine Republic (Cgera) expressed the same way, an entity that stressed “the importance of consolidating” the agreement “to generate tranquility and stability throughout the production chain.”
“The agreement with the IMF allows the tranquility of the suppliers of raw materials of the SMEs”, explained the president of Cgera, Marcelo Fernández.
“So that suppliers do not dollarize us and also so that businessmen can access more and better credits for production,” said the SME leader.
Finally, the president of the Argentine Chamber of the Toy Industry, Emmanuel Poletto, considered “correct” the diagnosis that “inflation is the great problem that we Argentines have at this time.”
“In addition to recognizing that it is time for social plans to gradually turn to formal employment. We industrialists believe that the solution to social and economic problems is to increase production and generate employment, most policies tend towards that,” Poletto concluded. .
