Although the Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) will announce the final number on Tuesday, February 14, de Mendiguren went ahead and said: “The inflation number will be higher than the previous month“.
The official then stated that “this productive model has the lowest unemployment number in recent years,” but added that “the money is not enough for those who work and that is what it reveals to us.”
In dialogue with Cynthia García for La García (AM 750), De Mendiguren also assured that “if the real salary does not recover, there is no sustainable economic model.” According to the data collected from INDEC by Ecolatina, real wages fell by 0.8% on average during 2022, a deterioration that has been accentuating since 2018 and which is close to 22%.
Criticism of Together for Change
After the harsh letter from Together for Change about the “economic bomb” of the current government, the official described them as “reckless” and expressed his surprise at the position of radicalism.
“Domingo Cavallo went to the United States during the government of Raúl Alfonsín so they don’t help Argentina and then hyperinflation came,” recalled De Mendiguren, who also named Patricia Bullrich and Ricardo López Murphy. “If there are people who know about bombs, they are those of Together for Change: they did it in 2001 and 2019,” she added.
He also pointed against former President Mauricio Macri, who this Sunday shared a note from La Nación titled “The shameful agreement with the IMF will severely limit the next government.” “Was Mauricio Macri in his right mind when he tweeted about the debt?” De Mendiguren wondered, alluding to the fact that it was the Cambiemos government itself that took the loan in 2018.
Finally, De Mendiguren recalled the run that was generated after the 2019 primaries, when Alberto Fernández beat the engineer. “When Mauricio Macri got angry because he had lost the elections, Guido Sandleris and Hernán Lacunza called Alberto Fernández to contribute to governance,” he closed.
Source: Ambito
