The spokeswoman for the Presidency Gabriela Cerruti said that the diagnosis made by the IMF on the debt contracted during the government of Mauricio Macri “is timid in some respects” and considered that “it is important that the agency can see whether or not the requirements to give a loan were met“.
The presidential spokesperson, Gabriela Cerruti (@gabicerru), offers his usual press conference on Thursdays in the Casa Rosada Conference Room, with an open agenda pic.twitter.com/83wdr0tJx3
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“It is surprising that hours after the report was released, Former Minister Nicolás Dujovne says that this was a loan that they politically gave to his government plan that failed“, Cerruti said at a press conference at the Government House, in which he accused Juntos por el Cambio of” taking on debt and getting into debt and turning over a Budget, which shows a very important degree of irresponsibility. “
The spokeswoman said that the International Monetary Fund “has to be stricter when it delivers loans that later become debt” and considered that “they cannot be granted to a political space because it involves many generations.”
“The opposition should read this report, this criticism made by the IMF”the spokeswoman said. He again questioned Juntos por el Cambio for “wanting to leave a government without a budget when it is negotiating” how to pay “the debt that they left themselves.
Regarding the pandemic, Cerruti said that “we are in a peak of infections “of coronavirus reason why it exhorted the population to complete the vaccination schedules, and affirmed that the Ministry of Health “monitors day by day” the epidemiological situation of the country.
“Vaccination is a collective fact, not an individual one. Vaccines are available, so we ask the population to complete their vaccination schedules,” said Cerruti, and then ask for “extreme care” before the next Holidays and vacations.
Asked about the conflict over mega-mining in Chubut, she ratified the government’s commitment to the environment and clarified that “it is not true that the use of water in Chubut was compromised” with the mining zoning law.
On the other hand, Cerruti confirmed that the national government will convene extraordinary sessions of the National Congress in the next few days and said that “at some point in the summer” the Multi-Year Plan will be presented.
“We are going to convene extraordinary events and we are going to work on the Multi-Year Plan at that time. It will probably be in the first months of 2022,” said Cerruti.
