2023-08-18 15:10:00
Since he came out as the most voted in the PASO 2023 elections last Sunday, the candidate for president for La Libertad Avanza Javier Milei held a virtual meeting this Friday with representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The meeting was virtual, began at 10 and lasted for an hour.
“Western Hemisphere Director, Rodrigo Valdes, and other members of the IMF team, met virtually with Mr. Milei and his team this morning. The discussion was an opportunity to exchange views on Argentina’s current economic outlook and understand its economic policy priorities”, said the agency through a statement.
A spokesperson for the multilateral credit organization explained that the entity “regularly and routinely contacts a wide range of political and economic referents”. The representatives will also meet with Patricia Bullrichwhich heads the list of Together for Change.
On the organization’s side, the Chilean Rodrigo Valdesdirector of the Western Hemisphere Department (WHD) and the Venezuelan Luis Cubedduhead of the IMF mission.
From Milei’s environment, those in charge were carlos rodriguezwho heads the candidate’s advisory council, and was the one who called Dario Epstein y Roque Fernandez to join the meeting.
The meeting was “part of the Fund’s regular and routine contacts with a wide range of political and economic stakeholders, including IMF program countries, to understand their views and opinions on the general objectives and the key policies of Fund-supported programs”clarified from the agency.
Milei with the IMF: adjustment, dollar, labor, monetary and State reform, among the topics discussed
According to Infoabe, since Freedom Advances They were told about a “set of reforms” planned in the event of accessing the Presidency, which they summarized in seven points: an “important tax adjustment, more important than that required by the Fund itself”; the unification of the exchange rates; the “closing of the financial deficit through a reduction in expenses; the “opening of the economy”; “a adjustment that neither society nor production will pay for it, but politics through a deep state reform”; the impulse of amodernization of labor laws”; and the “promotion of a monetary reform that ends the Banco Central”.
Milei: “There will be no problem with the IMF”
«They called me from the IMF, they contacted my sister to have a meeting. We are seeing how to face it, “said Milei in statements made the day after the PASO 2023 elections.
In this sense, he reiterated that “there will be no problem” with the international credit organization since the program they propose “It is much harder than the Fund”
“We have a much stronger fit hypothesis. The IMF proposes a fiscal number and the way in which it is reached is the problem of each one. Historically, the adjustments in Argentina fell on the private sector, that is, the producers of wealth. The big difference that we propose is that we are going against politics,” reaffirmed the LLA presidential candidate.
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