Macri worries about dollar volatility and April 30th strike

After a tragic week for the Argentine economy, President Mauricio Macri He met with his ministers this Friday. The president diagnosed the financial situation and confirmed that the volatility of the dollar was a direct result of the uncertainty generated by the acceleration of the election year. In addition, He looked at the impact unemployment could have next Tuesday.

As rebuilds the pro-government media The nation, the president led a meeting in the fifth presidential election of Olivos. In a "zen" toneas described by two of the witnesses who attended the meeting, the president asked his collaborators to transmit "the calm". As he said in the interview he gave yesterday, "there is no other way".

The chief of staff participated in the meeting, Marcos Peña; the deputy chief of staff, Andrés Ibarraand the ministers Guillermo Dietrich (Transport) and Patricia Bullrich (Security), among others. Nicolás Dujovne (Treasury), Rogelio Frigerio (Interior) and Chancellor Jorge Faurie were not on mission.

During his short exhibition, Macri stated that The "turbulence" that affects the behavior of the dollar and country risk will persist until the elections and considered that the problem is not economical. "No one is complaining about the economic program," official sources said. Otherwise, the problem is political.

In this sense, the government has accused the opposition of the role it has played in recent weeks. Only one leader escaped criticism at Casa Rosada: Senator Miguel Pichetto. "He's the only one to understand the seriousness of what he's doing, the world is not content to look at the government," lamented one of the president's trusted men.

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This is the government's response to the nod of the head of the PJ block and the prior candidacy of the president by Federal Alternative, during his last trip to the United States. He badured that if the space in which he works wins the next elections, he would comply with the obligations contracted by the Macrist administration.

After the storm of the last days, at Casa Rosada, they hope that other precandidates, such as Sergio Mbada and Juan Manuel Urtubey, to have the same gesture.

In addition, the meeting badyzed what could happen Tuesday, day in the guilds aligned on the 22F space, the two CTAs, the federal current and the social movements. will lead a strong national strike against Macri's adjustment policies.

Dietrich was responsible for examining the matter and argued that the bus and train service is guaranteed. Others, such as subways and commercial flights, were bent to the Moyano-led force.

The Minister of Transport, in turn, He spoke about the progress of the Paseo del Bajo, the mega project that the nation has achieved with the Buenos Aires government. and this will be inaugurated in the coming days. Bullrich, for his part, detailed the scope of the national program for complaints of gender-based violence, a plan launched by the government to unify complaints of gender-based violence across the country.

Also present were the provisional Speaker of the Senate, Federico Pinedo and the head of the Chamber of Deputies, Emilio Monzó, which has also advanced the next steps that the ruling party will take in Congress.

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