Measures "patch", internal government and the race that generates Cristina, according to Berensztein

Political badyst Sergio Berensztein criticized the measures announced yesterday by the government regarding the freeze of price and food price increases, as well as the announcement of a new round of negotiations. PROCREAR and ANSES Credits.

On the one hand, he evaluated the ads for "Patch", said that a "policy to reduce inflation" is necessary, criticized the fact that they communicated through a video starring Mauricio Macri and a family that he visited and warned against the effects of a possible effect on the exchange rate candidate Cristina Kirchner.

"The president, far from strongly supporting these measures, decided in a very heterodox way to communicate it with a video," he told Radio Miter.

According to Berensztein, the president did not want to pay the political cost of announcing measures with which he did not agree.

"This feeds into two problems: the first is the lack of confidence it generates in the market.The problem of trust was at the root of the currency crisis.The second problem that also resulted in the government there is some It is internal, the tensions that characterize the direction of Macri and that are far from resolved have been accentuated because one of them is the president himself, "he said.

In turn, he stated that "There was no policy to reduce inflation" and described the measurements reported yesterday as a "patch". "PROCREAR Credits, announced 10 thousand Yesterday, 35,000 people requested information.The city of Buenos Aires has 40,000 writings a year.To resume construction, it requires stability, trust. nothing in Argentina ", gave an example.

Overall, he felt that "the weight of the government's voluntarism to want to remove the economy from the center of society's debate has been replaced by the weight of reality". In this sense, he affirmed that this would be one of the axes of the campaign and recalled that the election years "there is always a dollarization of badets".

He added that "to the extent that the government manages to control the exchange rate will be very important.This is a necessary but not sufficient condition because the country risk continues to grow."

Finally, he baderted that the "fear" of a possible candidacy of Cristina Kirchner as president "can accelerate the exchange rate and have a negative impact on the prospects of Cambiemos".