2023-08-17 03:20:00
The government will announce a “lump sum” for workers in whitea raise child allowance and a extra bonus for retirees and pensionerswith the aim of offsetting the impact of the rise in prices after the devaluationadvanced the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa.
“There is going to be a fixed sum for the workers,” Massa said, when asked about the loss of purchasing power caused by price hikes.
When interviewed by Marcelo Bonelli and Edgardo Alfano in the program The Two Yous that is issued by TN, eThe head of the Palacio de Hacienda indicated that “people have to know that we know what happens to people.”
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But he also added that “people have to know that I didn’t bring it to the bottom“. Likewise, he considered that it is “very good that they go to the Fund (the candidates) so as not to speak so easily of asking for more money.”
“The Fund lent Macri something that technically did not correspond to him,” he warned in statements to the channel All News (TN).
The fixed-sum proposal would not have a consensus among the union leadership, because the unions prefer a reopening of paritiessuch as the one raised this Wednesday by the truckers and bank unions.
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Massa reappeared in the media after the internal elections and announced that new economic measures will be announced in the next few hours, mainly aimed at stopping the rise in prices.
“From tomorrow there will be announcements regarding price stability and compensation situations for the damage that inflation causes in people’s pockets“, he pointed.
In addition, the minister recognized that “Argentina comes from many years of frustration, failures, difficulties that keep reappearing. This causes people to express their anger in the primaries. This is how this scenario of thirds appeared that was unthinkable until recently ” .
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