“The IMF always asks you the same thing, cut back, lower salaries, labor reform, as happened in 2001,” he listed in an interview with C5N.
In this regard, he explained: “We are taking care of what they left us. The negotiation is tense because we do not agree to deliver economic growth. We are going to get out of this by growing.”
“The Fund accepted a lot,” acknowledged the Economy official. “They never again asked for labor reform, but what did he tell us about the infrastructure, ‘suspend the infrastructure’.”
“We would have suspended the gas pipeline. Look how short-sighted, if you suspended the gas pipeline, today you would continue with the negative balance of the balance that the lack of energy left last year. We did not give it a ball and thanks to that, we no longer have a negative balance, “he said.
“So how do we have to negotiate with the IMF, firmly and be clear that we want to comply with economic growth and Argentina is on the eve of a possibility of sustained growth that will definitely get us out of external restrictions,” he concluded.
When will the new agreement with the IMF be announced?
Earlier, De Mendiguren had anticipated that the expected agreement with the IMF could be announced “in the first days of next week.”
“We are seeking to comply with the Monetary Fund, we are permanently negotiating, but not at the expense of economic growth. We need to maintain the level of activity, continue to lower unemployment and order the fiscal accounts, but from growth,” the official highlighted in radio statements.
Source: Ambito
