Buenos Aires, May 7, 2022 (AFP) – Argentina’s vice president, Cristina Kirchner, said “there are debates, not fights” within the government, but “confidence and hope” from the 2019 voters of Alberto Fernández’s government.
“How are we going to get people to hope and longing? This is my biggest concern and also the biggest resentment I have for their trust in us. I believe we don’t respect their trust and hope that much,” he commented.
Cristina, who ruled the country between 2007 and 2015, was declared an Honorary Doctor from the Chaco Austral National University, with an action that turned into a huge rally in all news channels due to the interest created by her public reflection within a week. An exchange of tension and blame within the ruling coalition Frente de Todos (center-left Peronism).
Despite an economic recovery of 10.3% in 2021, poverty still affects 37.2% of Argentines after falling 9.9% from the previous year.
At the vice-presidential conference, he denied that the publicly articulated differences between in-line leaders and those who responded to President Fernández were discussion: “There is a sparring in management.”
Cristina lamented the consequences of Argentina’s 2018 loan of around $45 billion to the International Monetary Fund under the recently refinanced liberal Mauricio Macri government. “The fund wants a permanent devaluation above the consumer price index and an interest rate above that. This provides neither growth nor inflation,” he said.
In a “bi-money economy” like Argentina’s, “the real cause of rising prices is the scarcity of dollars,” he said, ignoring that inflation could now be attributed to printing money or rising wages.
source: Noticias
