The ex-president Jose Mujica He assured that the government is carrying out “an electoral proposal” with the exchange delay, while he pointed out that the National Party He did something similar in the ’90s and criticized: “It lasted almost a decade, until it burst in 2002.”
The reference of MPP He assured in dialogue with M24 that different sectors of the Uruguayan economy have “difficulties selling abroad because they cannot compete,” when ruling on the effects of the delay on the current value of the dollar.
“If I get 20 or 25 pesos for every dollar from the exporter, who in their costs has to translate dollars into pesos to pay costs such as salaries and rates, I put my hand in his pocket and I’m cutting his income. The guy cannot compete in the international area,” he questioned. Mujica.
On the other hand, he considered that with the current course “the importer is favored, who has the cheapest dollar to bring things that sometimes compete with what is done here,” while he linked this to the fact that “it tends to increase the unemployment” and recalled that “the indebtedness of livestock in the BROU “It’s going up.”
Mujica assured that it is “a policy that has a legacy”
In his criticism of the economic direction, the former president considered that “it is a policy that has a legacy.” “As I have memory, I remember that the white government of 1990 began an unfortunate cycle of exchange delay which lasted almost a decade until it burst in 2002,” he compared.
In that sense, he explained: “Then correcting it is expensive and it is difficult to prevent it from triggering.” inflation. There is no magic in these things. The government is making an electoral proposal, because they know everything I am saying.”
Elections, the interior and fiscal policy
Mujica admitted, not without irony, the improvement of real wage in recent months. “Apparently, if white people rule, we have to invent elections every year if the workers want their salaries to be increased,” said the MPP leader, who recognized that in politics there must be “a little humor.”
At the same time, he maintained that “there are a set of proposals that are surely well-intentioned, but it gives the impression that the country is reaching Saint Lucia River and it does not go further”, in reference to the lack of federalism.
Finally, he showed himself against the fiscal policy. “To say that the taxes is referring to traditional taxation, which is not what the government has applied, but rather has used another tax table,” said the former president.
In this regard, he recalled that “the Minister of Economy (Azucena Arbeleche), When he took office, the first gesture he had was to raise the salary of trusted personnel, at the same time that he proceeded to freeze the salary and the retirements for 40 months.”
Source: Ambito
