President Alberto Fernández said this Monday on C5N that “All trade agreements with Russia, China and other countries were subject to an agreement with the (Monetary) Fund, with which we were able to get rid of a limitation that we had, and now there is a horizon to achieve what we need.”
The president also assured that entering into “Default was a huge problem, it was leaving the game, and they didn’t even send me to the audience; they took me out of the game and sent me back to training”.
“I very much regret the decision made by Mauricio Macri to indebt us as he indebted us,” said the President.
The head of state affirmed that Vice President Cristina Kirchner “He has a different look, his differences and nuances on the agreement with the (International Monetary) Fund, but I am the President and I am convinced that we are taking the best path”.
Regarding the resignation of Máximo Kirchner to the presidency of the block of deputies of the Front of All maintained that the legislator spoke with him “Last Wednesday and he raised his differences with me, and today (Monday) he told me that he made this decision; he told me that Cristina did not agree with his resignation but that he felt better being on the plain”.
“I respect Máximo’s position, but at no time did he talk to me about breakups”he expressed.
The President assured that from the agreement with the IMF “there is no proposal for a tariff” andn the values of public services. “There is no proposed price increase, we are looking for the way (to adjust the rates) with the greatest justice and that is what the Energy Secretariat is working on” so that the wealthiest sectors pay more, he specified.
“I am aware that our people have to recover real income and I have to work for that to happen,” he added.
In another order, Fernández was in favor of an agreement on prices and wages, but warned that he wants wages “They beat inflation and for that they have to recover 20 points (lost) since the time of Mauricio Macri”.
Regarding the Supreme Court, the president considered that “there is a functioning problem. And nobody should be offended because it is a functioning problem of one of the powers of the Republic” and warned that in Argentina “the principle of innocence has been lost “.
In addition, he stressed that “thanks to the work of (the head of the AFI) Cristina Caamaño” they dismantled “the espionage apparatus that was within the justice system.”
