Guzmán-Feletti Summit for prices and they make sure they don’t talk about restrictions

Helping with the record inflation in April and the internal Frente de Todos, Martín Guzmán met on Tuesday morning with Domestic Trade Secretary Roberto Feletti. This was a meeting where current programs were reviewed amid difficulties in curbing prices and pressure on the coalition to advance new measures.

The Minister of Economy thus sought to deactivate the claim of a sudden jump in withholdings sunflower, corn and wheat. Clarion He expects Feletti to do that approach to Guzmán, in what has been read as a new pressure on the wing government led by vice president and Máximo Kirchner. But the water would have subsided.

Official sources familiar with the meeting indicate that the detentions were not discussed, a claim Feletti renewed in April. “It was a management meeting, they don’t meet every week but every now and then they meet and they keep phone contacts, they don’t make a specific proposal, they discuss programs, ”they explain.

The last time the two officers met was in January, first in a meeting with entrepreneurs with the Minister of Productive Development, Matías Kulfas, and the head of the BCRA, Miguel Pesce. And then, a week later, at a meeting with IMF staff, it was agreed to keep the Cautious Price, provided there was no unilateral control.

Since then, inflation has accelerated and tensions have intensified. In early April, after learning of 6.7% inflation in March, Feletti sued Guzmán. said “responsibility of the Ministry of Economy “to lower inflation and warns:” it will be ugly “. Data for April, 6% monthly and a record 58% year-on-year, heated up the fight.

Feletti recognized last month that it was a “miracle” to think that from his secretariat they would be stopped using four regulated baskets and two trusts. These programs were reviewed at the meeting on Tuesday. In the case, Care Prices should be updated in July and the proximity basket is already underway, but there are supply problems.

Before the wheat shooting, Feletti met at 13 with the camera directors of fresh pasta, owners of pizzerias, empanada houses and related activities, such as bakers ’associations. The meeting took place after the secretary stumbled to start the Wheat Stabilization Fund which provides subsidies to the industrial flour market.

Landing in the suburbs

Guzmán also met today at the Palacio de Hacienda with the Italian ambassador, Fabrizio Lucentini, where he discussed the global economic situation. And from 3:30 pm he plans to descend on the suburbs of Buenos Aires with the movements social organizations aligned with the government, aimed at strengthening the support of this sector.

It was a visit to the National Federation of Argentine Worker Cooperatives in Admiral Brown, with the Minister of Social Development, Juan Zabaleta, the representatives Victoria Tolosa Paz, Julio Pereyra, Eduardo Toniolli and Germán Martínez, and the social leaders Emilio Pérsico (Evita), Daniel Menéndez (Barrios de Pie) and Raúl Godoy (CCC), among others.

The movements will take advantage of the meeting to strengthen their projects for the informal sector. They are interested in speeding up the treatment of productive monotax –an initiative detailed with AFIP and the Ministry of Economy and that is in the commissions of Deputies-, the overall basic salary shown last week, and credits for the popular economy.

“The conference is related to the productive monotax, which aims to register 8 million workers outside the formal market, an agenda to improve income, production and productivity. Non-bank credit and the universal basic wage are part of the proposal we made on May 1, “confirmed Menéndez, also a Social Development official.

The word recycling pole This is a sign of support for Guzmán by organizations that say they have expectations of lower inflation., compared to those who led last week in a march demanding jobs and wages. The sector will be affected from Thursday by the first installment of the $ 9,000 of the $ 18,000 bonus implemented by the government.

Within the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP), made up of Evita, Barrios de Pie, CCC and Juan Grabois’s MTE, there are groups maintaining open rivalry with the leader of La Cámpora, who on Friday targeted minister and questioned him on linking internal politics to the problems of inflation control.

“I heard Guzmán say he had no political support. But he was supported by the IMF, Kristalina (Georgieva), President, trade unions and Clarín. What other support do you want?“, he asked himself Maximo Kirchner on Friday. And the next day, it’s Juan Grabois’s turn, who criticized him from the Book Fair for negotiating the debt “badly” and “not touring a bit in the neighborhoods.”

After those tensions, there are gestures of approach. One of them was the meeting yesterday between Guzmán and Interior Minister Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, head of La Cámpora and very close to the former president and his son. Another was the proposal by the Minister of Public Works, Gabriel Katopodis, for Cristina to “actively participate in all decisions with Alberto Fernández.”