This Thursday, the INDEC released a new report on the evolution of the poverty in the first six months of the year. The indicator showed that42.5% of households are in povertyabout 4,319,760 homes, where 52.9% of people live. Furthermore, destitution escalated from 9.3% to the 18.1%.
“The relentless adjustment of the Government hits working families and seniors deepening the crisis instead of generating solutions. The indigence rose to 18.1% and the most alarming thing is that the gap widens between girls and boyswith more than 66% of them immersed in poverty and indigence”, he questioned.
Furthermore, she said she was not surprised by the figure and clarified that “it is not just a number” but “a reality that we feel and touch every time we go to the neighborhoods.”. “There are millions of kids, workers and grandparents abandoned by the government and its policies,” he added.
“Since Indec restarted the measurement, it is the highest level of poverty and the most abrupt year-on-year change,” denounced Tolosa Paz and highlighted that “The impoverishment of the population has never been faster.”
Then, he reviewed the reasons that, according to his criteria, drove poverty and destitution: “If economic activity falls by 2.3%; the basic basket increases by 144%; salaries of formal and informal workers fall 18 and 25%, respectively; unemployment increases by 2%, 100% of medication coverage is eliminated and transportation increases by 600%, the result cannot be other than this horrible reality.
Finally, he asked for a State “that urgently contains situations of extreme vulnerability, and once again promotes a public policy aimed at production, industry and job creation.” And he closed: “There are no forces from heaven that can reverse this tremendous process of damage and destruction.”
Mauricio Macri on the increase in poverty: “Consequences of populism”
The former president Mauricio Macri, of good dialogue with the government of Milei, He also spoke about the increase in poverty and indigence indicators and took the opportunity to reiterate his questions about “populism” and the policies of the previous government. “Let’s not fool ourselves: the consequences of populism are paid. Always,” he said on his “X” account.
The head of the PRO pointed out that “Argentina entered a recession and pre-hyperinflation in 2023 due to the catastrophic economic policy of Massa, CFK and Alberto Fernández“so, according to his criteria, the “painful poverty rate that we have just learned is the result of that recurring macroeconomic imbalance to which Kirchnerism has accustomed us.”
He then attempted a defense of the libertarian administration, exonerating it for the increase registered in the first semester. “Growing and lowering inflation are necessary conditions for poverty to decrease, and the President’s government Milei has taken the first steps to move in that direction. Only in the next poverty measurements will we be able to judge the success or failure of this administration“, he stated.
Who also expressed himself on social networks in repudiation of the increase in poverty was the deputy of the Left Front, Nicolás Del Caño. “The impoverishing capitalists increased poverty to 52.9%, the highest in 20 years. Milei and his accomplices manage to overcome the government of Macri and Alberto Fernández“, critical
Next, He proposed “confronting them with popular mobilization” until “this policy of hunger” was defeated.he said in reference to the economic measures promoted by the libertarian economist.
For the Buenos Aires legislator from La Libertad Avanza, Ramiro Marra, The blame for the increase in poverty must be found in the actions taken by the previous government. “We finance the deficit with emissions, that generates INFLATION and then POVERTY. ALL the poverty that the country suffers today is because of the economic and monetary disaster that Kirchnerism generated. They set the country on fire just to get to the elections,” he said.
The former Minister of the Interior of the government of Alberto Fernández, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedropointed out that “in 6 months, the “biggest ever” fit It impoverished more than 5.3 million Argentines and led more than 3 million to destitution.” “As Macri requested, Milei is going in the same direction, faster and stronger“It has already caused the highest poverty in the last 20 years,” he criticized.
On the other hand, for the Minister of the Environment of the Province, Daniela Vilar, The poverty figure responds to the measures taken by the Milei government. “53% poverty. They have already invented the ridiculous thing that the Córdoba fires are the fault of La Cámpora, let’s see what they invent now to cover up the fastest social degradation in history. How intriguing,” he expressed.
In a self-critical way, the PRO deputy, Silvia Lospenatto, He stated that the poverty figure “is the clearest photograph of the failure of the Argentine leadership, of all of us.” “We have to accept that since the return of Democracy, governments of all political colors have only worsened the poverty situation in our country,” he remarked.
“Millions of Argentines, especially the youngest, need us working together, without meanness, to interrupt the cycle of impoverishment and loss of progress that we have experienced for years,” he asked the rest of the leaders.
Source: Ambito
