“We had to ensure that the most vulnerable sectors did not feel the force of the adjustment, so it was very important to give them support,” the head of state said before businessmen.
President Javier Milei He spoke this Friday before the red circle in Mar del Plata. There, he surprised the businessmen present by confessing that he also surprised them with a confession: he said that “It was important to make the adjustment during the holidays so that people wouldn’t find out.”
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“Naturally, to explain why this time is different, we cannot leave aside the initial conditions we have faced.. When one takes the situation of the BCRA and the remunerated liabilities, the situation was worse than Alfonsín’s hyper. At the same time, the social indicators were worse than before convertibility,” said the head of state in his presentation.
Next, at the IDEA colloquium, he explained the economic context in which he assumed the presidency: “It is clear that the situation was complex. Any mistake would have triggered a crisis of proportions difficult to imagine, poverty would have doubled to levels of 90% and half of the population indigent. The basic symptom was reflected in the inflation rate, whether or not it is valid to make annualizations is debatable. There is no doubt that if this had exploded we would be in an absolutely different situation. “The first thing we had to put an end to was inflation.”
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“We had to ensure that the most vulnerable sectors did not feel the force of the adjustment, so it was very important to give them support, the problem was that there was no money, where were we going to get the resources?”
It was then that Milei argued that “With the type of adjustment we were making, it was important to do it on vacation so that people wouldn’t find out as much about what was happening.”
And he explained: “We had to ensure that the most vulnerable sectors did not feel the force of the adjustment, so it was very important to give them support, The problem is that there was no money, where were we going to get the resources?”
In another passage of his presentation, the President once again referred to his problem with the universities: “ANDIt’s a lie that I want to close or privatize”, maintained and assured that “They used that negative campaign so that they would not be audited. Are they in favor of the jets so that they would not be audited? They are not going to be privatized and not tariffed. “We want to audit them and yet I have to continue to answer for this.”
On the other hand, he emphasized the measures adopted to end the pickets and recalled that “a complaint line was set up so that they would not allow themselves to be blackmailed and obviously we took 18 thousand troops to the streets. Belliboni threatened with a march of 50 thousand. In the demonstration there ended up being 3,000 people and from there the pickets in Argentina ended.” “The criticism had to be ignored. When you walk calmly down the street, say: ‘Sorry Milei’“, he later ironized.
Along these lines, he praised his management and stated: “With the chainsaw program we messed with a lot of sacred cows, we messed with everything. It’s not that it was impossible, you had to have the courage and we had it.”
Source: Ambito