In a press conference that he gave at the end of the Cabinet meeting, Cerruti once again remarked that the Dolar blue “It has no impact on the real economy” and said that the Government understands “the feeling of uncertainty generated by the information around the blue dollar.”
Upon consultation of Ambitthe Minister of Tourism Matías Lammens anticipated that the measures “aim to have a differentiated change for tourists.”
“Receptive tourism is recovering with great vigor”he stressed while clarifying that the country “needs the dollars that those tourists bring”and what “can change in the single foreign exchange market”.
“Today, due to the exchange gap, many of those dollars do not enter the Central Bank. We are working with the Ministry of Economy so that tourists liquidate those dollars and can exchange them in the single exchange market. In the coming days there will be news in this regard. “added the official.
Detailing possible initiatives, Lammens spoke of a “differentiated change” for tourism. “That whoever can settle their dollars in the formal market through a credit card or any other formal means can access a differentiated exchange rate that is closer to the MEP dollar or cash with liquidity”he clarified.
According to official sources confirmed to this medium, the meeting of the economic cabinet will be held in principle this Thursday at 9. It will be headed by batakis and will also participate the Minister of Productive Development, Daniel Scioli; the minister of labour, Claudius Moroni; the Minister of Tourism and Sports Matthias Lammens; the minister of agriculture Julian Dominguez; the owner of AFIP Mercedes Marco Del Pont; and the head of the Central Bank Miguel Pesce.
This Wednesday, the head of the Treasury Palace shared her first national cabinet meeting. The meeting was led by Juan Manzur in the Eva Perón Room of the Casa Rosada. Sources who participated in the conclave informed Ámbito that the official was received with applause by her colleagues, whom she informed of the situation of the portfolio she directs.
Among the speakers at the Cabinet meeting, in addition to Batakis and Lammens, the head of Health, Carla Vizzotti; the Minister of Public Works Gabriel Katopodis; the holder of the transport portfolio Alexis Guerrera and the head of the Cabinet of Advisors, Juan Manuel Olmos. In addition to the economic axis, the arrival of new vaccines for pediatric use against the coronavirus was addressed, as well as the impact of the implementation of the tariff segmentation and the transportation situation in the AMBA.
As confirmed by the Spokesperson to this medium at a press conference, The possibility of a judicial reform was not mentioned in the Eva Perón Room, despite the public exchange between President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
In tune with the President
The measures that were anticipated today are in line with the statements that the president Alberto Fernandez he did on Monday during an act at the Bicentennial Museum, when he acknowledged that the Government is facing “complex moments” and that it must “adjust some numbers of the public accounts,” although he clarified that “this is not going to be done at the cost of stopping the public works and housing”.
Leading the launch of the Argentina Grande program, The head of state put the magnifying glass on the issue and assured that Argentina “is not a place where tourists buy dollars to travel and make the blue dollar go up, and it is not the place where speculators make the dollar go up and everyone is concerned “, but the one that “educates, the one that generates employment, and heals”.
Blue dollar, no brake
The blue dollar shot up again on Wednesday to a record high of $301 at the selling point and $296 for buying, in an exchange day in which the financial dollars also reached all-time highs.
During the trading session, the blue reached $302 and on closing it fell back, while the gap with the official wholesaler exceeds 130%.
Source: Ambito
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