The chief of staff, Juan Manzur, highlighted this Thursday the commitment of the national government to recover the value of the real income of Argentine workers “with parities that exceed inflation” and assumed that the rise in prices “is the main issue” that Argentina must attend.
Presenting his first management report to the Senate, Manzur stated that “Inflation is a long-standing phenomenon that has multiple reasons” in Argentina.
“Inflation, there is no doubt, we have to take charge, it is the main issue we have to attend to,” he told the senators when presenting the 132nd report of a chief of staff to Congress.
In a statement that lasted 45 minutes, the official also stated that “We must strengthen the recovery of the real income of workers and recover the value of our currency” and assured that “to govern is to give work”.
The chief of staff affirmed that a decrease in unemployment was observed, indicated that in the last quarter of last year it reached a value of 7 percent and confirmed that “an agreement was reached with the Paris club to extend the payments of the next maturity of September 30, 2024”.
assured that The Argentine government will continue with the measures to pay off the external debt with all sectors and maintained that the next step in agreeing with the Paris club “has to do with the decision to put Argentina’s accounts in order at the international level.”
Manzur affirmed in this sense that his political space, the Front of All, “would never have assumed such a level of debt.”
He also defended the economic and health measures adopted by the administration of President Alberto Fernández since he took office in 2019 and defended “the handling of the pandemic” of coronavirus by the national government.
Manzur stressed that Argentina “was one of the countries that obtained the most vaccines” and said that “extraordinary aid was granted by a present State” to the most vulnerable sectors during the pandemic.
He also accepted that democracy in the country “has outstanding debts” on the social level, but praised the consensus policies obtained on issues that unite Argentines such as “the claim of sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands” or the policy against gender violence. .
Before entering the room to present his report, Manzur was received by Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in her office on the first floor of the Senate.
The official spoke for less than an hour before the senators to later give rise to the questions from the senators of the different provinces.
The first to ask was the radical senator Víctor Zimmerman, who complained about the lack of government forecasts in energy matters.
