The presidential spokesperson, Gabriela Cerruti, responded this Thursday to the national deputy Mary Eugenia Vidal (Together), who had shown a graph that reported that poverty had decreased in 2017, replying that “he forgot to say that they ruled until 2019” and that year the current government took office “with 50% poverty and 50% inflation” .
Cerruti said in his habitual press conference on Thursdays at Casa Rosada that Vidal “forgot to say that they governed until 2019 and indeed until 2017 he continued the downward curve that had begun in 2003 with the governments of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and that in 2017, with the devaluation, he hit a peak that It took us in 2019 with 50% poverty and 50% inflation, and after that came the pandemic.”
#Poverty| It is picturesque to see the former governor @mariuvidal try to answer this, showing a graph saying that in 2017 poverty had dropped a lot, what they forgot to say is that they governed until 2019.
– Argentine Presidency Spokesperson (@Portavoz_Ar) January 26, 2023
In addition, the spokeswoman again referred to the statements of the Pope Franciscowho spoke of the high rates of poverty and inflation in Argentina, and explained that the Pontiff “marks the year (19) 55 as the advance of the liberal movements, through military and civilians with the same economic ideology.”
“We do not debate with Pope Francis, we listen to him, we take his teachings and we try to understand his views on the issues,” he clarified.
And he expanded: “This began in ’55 when a military government overthrew Peronism. Then, every time popular governments advanced to reduce poverty, increase employment, have more industry and redistribution, in the end the liberals came, by military coups or democratically, and they backed down all that”.
#Pope Francisco| We don’t debate with him, we try to understand his look. The stage that he points out from 1955 did not govern Peronism. When popular governments advanced so that there is less poverty, liberal governments came, by coup or elections, which reversed the process. pic.twitter.com/Aq3iEFY42M
– Argentine Presidency Spokesperson (@Portavoz_Ar) January 26, 2023
Cerruti recalled that in 1974 (in the third government of Juan Domingo Perón) “there was full employment” and later “the dictatorship generated an economic crisis and indebtedness.”
He reviewed that the former president Mauricio Macri “He had reached the head of government (of the city of Buenos Aires) after having governed it three times: during the military dictatorship, being the main partner of (the de facto mayor Osvaldo) Cacciatore through his companies; he had governed with Carlos Grosso, who was an employee of Socma, and then democratically”.
“Those are the cycles we see in Argentina. We have periods of growth, of distribution with popular governments; then came the others, which can be short, like the one of the Alliance, which lasted three years, and yet produced a collapse huge in 2001,” he said.
Besides, The spokeswoman ruled out that the rise in the blue dollar is in line with the impeachment process against the Supreme Court.
“Relating a measure that is provided for in the Constitution, such as impeachment, to the rise in the blue dollar, may have something in common, which is that those who want there to be no impeachment, like those who want the dollar to rise, do so. What they want is for a climate of uncertainty to be generated towards them,” he replied.
And I add: “They can believe in hatred, in uncertainty, in people’s feeling that generating uneasiness, one thing has nothing to do with the other.”
“Our political process is developing in the way that it has to be developed, in the Chamber of Deputies, in the commission chaired by Carolina Gaillard, and the Government is following closely because it was an initiative of the President and together with a number of governors to carry out impeachment of the Supreme Court, for the interference that we all know, in the Legislative Power and in the Executive Power,” Cerruti summed up.
The official clarified that “the blue dollar is a very small mass. Speculative movements usually have a lot of impact, but this does not mean that it occupies the Government, because it can have repercussions on other things, such as price makers who have speculated with it and may have some influence on inflation.
“We understand that there are different speculative movements, in addition to the seasonal ones, which are the ones that cause these movements with the blue dollar. It is a very small mass linked to speculation and not to the real economy, much less to the macroeconomy,” he completed.
#CELAC| With perfect attendance from all members and with consensus to reach the final statement, we reached the goal #UnityInDiversity
– Argentine Presidency Spokesperson (@Portavoz_Ar) January 26, 2023
Cerruti highlighted the arrival in the country this week of the Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who made “his first visit” as the new presidentafter taking office on January 1, and highlighted the “strategic relationship” between the two countries and the signing of “very important agreements.”
and remarked the VII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) which was held on Tuesday in Buenos Aires for “perfect attendance” and “with the consensus for the Final Declaration”.
For the spokeswoman, the important thing about that meeting was the idea that “democracy and equality be consolidated”, and she also valued “the foreign agenda” that President Alberto Fernández had “with bilateral agreements that he held yesterday” with different presidents and officials who had attended the Summit.
