The inmate of the Frente de Todos entered the final stretch of the Elections 2023: Within hours of the deadline to register alliances, everything indicates that the ruling party will stop using the name with which it won in 2019 to compete this year. In addition, less than two weeks before the candidacies must be registered, the president Alberto Fernandez He spoke about his decision not to run for re-election and questioned the subsequent behavior of other government officials.
“It confuses me that when I get off they tell me ‘we don’t want there to be a STEP’, Wasn’t it that they wanted me to get off so that it would have happened?“questioned the president during his participation in the podcast Oligarchs of Nothingmade by students of the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires and published this Tuesday, June 13 in Youtube.
The president assured that “it did not cost him anything to make the decision” to get out of re-election and, on the contrary, the consideration “The most sensible and thoughtful decision and the one that best does space”. “I am not important, the political project is important, and that project called for a STEP,” she said.
“He told me that undergoing a STEP with the participating President was very complex because the President manages State resources and had an advantage,” Fernández explained about the internal context that led him not to run as a candidate this year.
“I don’t think it’s essential. I think that in favor of space it is not difficult for me to step aside, I am President out of a militant duty and if due to that duty I have to be a militant again, I am a militant. My concern is that we win“, he added.
Alberto Fernández: “We have not enriched ourselves nor do we deliver works to our friends”
With the intention of downplaying the official internal party, Alberto Fernández said: “Now I believe that things are being ordered and it is a political time of convulsion, a little convulsion in Peronism is natural too“.
The Head of State acknowledged the existence of shades within the political space, although he clarified: “I would not dare to say that there are problems on the front that make us differentiate a lot.”
Regarding another internal conflict of the front, specifically about his relationship with Vice President Cristina Kirchner, the president affirmed that they are separated by undeniable differences. “I listen to her and in some she may be right and in others she has none”He specified regarding the criticisms that the former president has made about the current management.
“Cristina differs from my Government. Write letters, take out tweets and it’s fine. Those things don’t bother me because they finally make it clear that politics is alive, that it’s not a barracks. I believed what I believed and I still believe it today, that there were mistakes and bad political decisions“, held.
Thus, he expanded: “Surely Cristina when she criticizes, she sees bad decisions in my government. I listen to her and in some she may be right and in others she has none. But it is her position and respect because she is a respectable person.”
“We had different views with Cristina”, the president reiterated. Although, after listing certain issues where he did not agree with the vice president, he concluded: “Despite her differences, I was always by her side, I know her and I know her honesty.”
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On inflation: “You cannot live with 100%”
Referring to the current context marked by the economic crisis that the country is going through, the President recognized that “You can’t live with 100% inflation”. In any case, insist on the incidence of the global context, especially the pandemic and the War between Russia and Ukraine.
“You can see the inflation, which is very high in Argentina, but you also have to see what happened in the world. The inflation is largely because of the war. In the country inflation was multiplied by two, but Macri left 55 inflation points,” said the president.
In turn, Fernández assured that “the economy grew in the first quarter and is moving a lot”. “Inflation is a very serious problem in Argentina, but it didn’t start with me“He sentenced and closed:” My Government is not comparable with any because of the context it had. It wasn’t that bad“.
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