Alberto Fernández redoubled his bet against Luis Lacalle Pou: “His speech was harsh and aggressive”

President Alberto Fernandez he affirmed this evening that the speech of his Uruguayan counterpart Luis Lacalle Pou “was tough and aggressive“When he said that Mercosur had been a brake during the summit of presidents which was held virtually this week, he clarified that this incident” does not jeopardize the unity “of the regional bloc.

In statements to C5N, he said: “I am impressed that they say the patotero is me.” “I am the president of Argentina, I don’t have to put up with my country being called ballastI’m not going to let them treat Argentina like that in a regional group and I wouldn’t treat anyone like that, but it was an incident, period, ”he added.

Asked about the idea that the country is isolated, Fernández replied: “He was isolated when they stopped lending money to (former President Mauricio) Macri and had to turn to the International Monetary Fund. ” “Macri should apologize to the country, because the damage he has caused is incalculable, it is unusual. I am very impressed that he does not realize the mess he has caused, ”he added.

On the other hand, the President considered that Argentina “is close” to going through “a second wave of” coronavirus infections, but ruled out “a return to extreme isolation”. In this sense, he announced that measures will be announced next week “to maximize care and minimize circulation“Like, for example, that the public administration works remotely, after a meeting scheduled for tomorrow with the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, and the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” by Pedro.

Regarding the scandal of the VIP vaccination against leaders and businessmen close to the government, Alberto Fernández declared that “It is not true that the well-off give“. “There was an isolated case, where we gave a clear message about how we want the vaccines to be distributed, and it cost me a minister of the stature of Ginés (González García), the greatest sanitarist from Argentina. “

In addition, he predicted that in April “inflation will start to fall” and said that “outside the supermarkets it is very difficult to enforce the price agreements”.

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