Government announcements will not include changes in the program with the IMF, but the executive does not rule out them for later

The package of economic measures prepared by the government to improve the social humor At the beginning of the election campaign, he will not understand the announcements referring to the program with the International Monetary Fund. That does not mean that the modifications of the agreement are excluded. "We are still discussing with the Fund to see what additional instruments we may have to travel this difficult path better, "said the Minister of the Interior, Rogelio Frigerio, in statements to Infobae and the Argentine press Washington. The same idea has also been transmitted in recent days by the IMF.

"But we do not expect the president to announce anything beyond this set of measures we have worked on in recent days", added the official Mauricio Macri.

The Minister of Finance, Nicolás Dujovne, sounded when, in his refusal, he was asked if there was a concrete negotiation with the IMF about a flexibility of the program or on band diagram put to contain the dollar. To both questions, he answered "no" but avoided more details.

Meetings that the Minister of Finance and the President of the Central Bank, Guido Sandleris, they kept this week with David Lipton, the number two IMF has stimulated speculation about possible changes to the program signed with the IMF, particularly regarding Monetary Policy and the tools available to contain the dollar and stop the l & # 39; inflation. But if there are negotiations in this direction, they will not be part of the announcements scheduled for Wednesday.

In closed meetings with Lipton a "program monitoring, tax figures … routine, all routine ", In a brief contact with the Argentine press, Mr. Dujovne said this morning that he was sharing a panel on human infrastructure and investment with Christine Lagarde, almost at the closing of the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings. During the five days of the presence of the Minister of Finance in the US capital He avoided talking to journalism.

Dujovne ended his participation in fundraising meetings and is now starting his return to Buenos Aires. It will come at the beginning of a key week for the government, which is beginning to play its chances of re-election in the field of the economy.

Tomorrow's daily sales $ 60 million from the Treasury. These are the funds of the last disbursement of the IMF, which, together with the dollars of the harvest They should support the price of the peso. In addition, the index of l & # 39; inflation Of March. that they admit to the government and the fund ",it does not come well", and there will be ads from Casa Rosada about agreements on prices and consumer incentives.

But in a paper presented at this week's meeting in the US capital, Dujovne admitted that "the financial environment (in Argentina) remains unstable"This is so, explained the minister in the letter,"especially after inflation driven by inertia; some recovery of production margins; standardization of service tariffs and food prices – increased in January and February"

The fight against inflation is a headache for the government. At the IMF, they do not see that this will yield in the short term but they speak of a "gradual" process, as they indicated to Infobae Alejandro Werner and Roberto Cardarelli, economists from the Department of the Western Hemisphere Fund who are following more closely the case of Argentina.

In dialogue with Argentine journalists, Frigerio He mentioned the difficulties posed by high inflation. "When you apply different monetary measures to those with which we work, as was done last year, you must generate a delay of at least one semester until these measures begin to have a real impact."said the minister.

"We are aware that this road is a path very difficult for a significant portion of the Argentines and we understand that we must take steps to mitigate this difficult transition in order to be able to control inflation, which is related to achieving the balance of public accounts ", has -he declares.