The former Argentine president, Mauricio Macri, is on Uruguayan soil to meet Luis Lacalle Pou and took the opportunity to make a media tour and praise the liberal coalition government.
In an interview with the program easy to deviateOf the radio Del Sol FMsaid that he will speak with Lacalle Pou about “the future of the region” and that he values holding a meeting “with an acting president, with a tight agenda.”
He praised the Uruguayan president saying that “he is doing a great job after the great support he had with the referendum” and argued that from Argentina they envy the Uruguayans “the respect, the democratic coexistence they have, the prudence.”
He added that Uruguay “must let go of some things” in a world with an accelerating technological dynamic.
Regarding Lacalle’s intention to advance in a free trade agreement with China, outside Mercosur and against its statutes, Macri suggested reevaluating the idea because “Mercosur is a priority to open up to the world”, but believes that “if it continues in a position of isolation, can condemn the members of Mercosur who feel that integration is what is worth”. “The rest of the world grew much more than Mercosur,” continued the former libertarian president.
Back to Casa Rosada
Macri was strongly criticized during his presidency because poverty grew significantly, something that the current president, Alberto Fernández, was unable to reverse and has rather seen it increase without much room for maneuver in the shadow of the hyperinflation that the River Plate country is experiencing. .
According to the fake news verification portal checked.com, Starting in 2003, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses of Argentina (INDEC) began to publish information on poverty in 31 urban agglomerations. “But, in the administration of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (Front for Victory party), in addition to the handling of statistics since 2007the official institute directly stopped posting poverty data as of 2013. The new official data was only published in 2016, already under the Presidency of Mauricio Macri (Cambiemos).
Macri aims to return to the Casa Rosada hand in hand with Together for Change (JxC) and commented in this regard: “luckily for Uruguayans, Brazilians and Paraguayans, in a year Together for Change will govern again and we will return to accelerate the integration agenda”.
In 2023 they will seek to return to government with an “empowerment challenge for the Argentine population.”
