Lacunza receives Marco Lavagna | The meeting with the …

The new Minister of Finance, Hernán Lacunza, will begin this afternoon meetings with the economic leaders of the opposition. The first will be with Marco Lavagna, by federal consensus. The call, scheduled for 17 hours at the Palacio de Hacienda, had been announced by Lacunza this morning, during his first lecture after his swearing in as minister. All sectors, except the left, have confirmed Page12 who have accepted the invitation, although they are wondering what will be the real goal since they see no chance of reaching an agreement with the ruling party. They explained that the consensual measures proposed by the government would be the same as those that led the country to a serious economic crisis and indicated that to overcome the economic uncertainty, it needed political measures and not "a speech". 39; economists. "

From Front de Tous confirmed that the envoy, once summoned, would be Matías Kulfas, one of the closest collaborators of Alberto Fernández. They asked that, if the government put the budget targets in the foreground, it had to explain how they would be achieved in a sustainable way, given that the current primary surplus had been reached with the sale of thermal power plants, electricity and gas. ANSES shares and central public services.

From the federal consensus badured that the envoy will be Marco Lavagna, son of Roberto Lavagna, candidate for the presidency of space. The former Minister of the Economy wrote on his Twitter account that space technicians "are available to give advice and make proposals for the stabilization goal". From the Lavagna economic team, they said they had already received other calls, but despite the suggestions made, the government was pursuing the same path and therefore with the same mistakes.

Ramiro Marra, economist and pre-candidate for the post of federal consensus senator, said Page I12 who will badist to find solutions, and not "take a picture". In addition, he said that the purpose of the meeting will be "to listen to the problems and not to set your own agenda to campaign." Even in this case, Marra wonders what is the ultimate goal of the meeting: "The important thing is firstly the political leaders, then the economic teams. If the economists meet, but the leaders do not approve, it will be nowhere. "

On the NOS side, led by Juan José Gómez Centurión, they indicated that the economist chosen to dialogue with Lacunza would be Agustín Monteverde, although he could not attend today's meeting. In an interview with this newspaper, Monteverde said in the same vein as Marra: "The crisis has an origin that is political and will not be resolved by a presumed new minister. The company and the markets are waiting for more than a good dialogue from economists. "He thinks it will be difficult to agree on the fact that they expect the government to seek to control the exchange rate" with interest rates astronomical, a fiscal drowning and the time bomb. "From the space they will take as proposals" fiscal austerity and low interest rate. "" What economy can grow if you drown the productive sector and that your dollar control policy is the financial bike, "asked Monteverde.

From the left front, they said that they would not attend the meeting. "We do not see the possibility of agreeing on a point of economic policy with a government under the tutelage of the IMF," said Guido Lapa, economist and candidate for the deputation, whose president is Nicolás del Caño. In addition, he added that it is impossible to get on with a government that "talks to the markets rather than to the workers". The measures proposed by FIT were announced on its twitter by Gabriel Solano, candidate for the leadership of the government: "Stop paying the debt, nationalize the banking and energy chain, increase wages and pensions, double social spending, ban layoffs a tax to those who won with the devaluation ".