Lacunza assumed and stated that his goal is "the establishment …

L & # 39; economist Hernán Lacunza
badumed this morning as the new Minister of Finance of the Nation, replacing the renouncer Nicolás Dujovne, who left office last Saturday in the midst of the economic crisis. After the oath, the newly-appointed official said in a message that his primary goal was to maintain exchange rate stability.

Lacunza said President Mauricio Macri had given him a prime mandate: "to guarantee the stability of the exchange rate as a first-rate goal". In this line, he badured that "a higher exchange rate is not necessary".

The Finance Minister added that the devaluation last week "does not put the budget targets at risk" this year and guarantees that "in the month of August" there will be a budget surplus ".

Meetings with economists of the opposition

On the other hand, he stressed that "it is clear that after the STEP, it is clear that the electoral process is not indifferent to the stability of the exchange rate and to that of the prices ". He expected that he will meet in the coming days "economic referents of all political spaces" who will participate in the general elections of 27 October.

"What the opposition can say is that markets are more attentive in the future than in the present, and sometimes more important than the government can do," he said. he declared.