Economist Guillermo Calvo said Macri and Fernández should apply an adjustment

Guillermo Calvo, an Argentine economist and university professor at Columbia University, badyzed the upcoming elections in Argentina and said that Mauricio Macri and Alberto Fernández should face adjustment policies when they succeed in the next elections. elections.

In addition, he badured that the growth of the voting intention that José Luis Espert shows night to Macri.

Fit, whoever wins

In the case of the man chosen by Cristina Fernández, the expert said: "He will apply the adjustment with the support of the people."

Meanwhile, in the case of Macri, he argued that the measure would be more complicated because as a government, he can not claim that the adjustment is due to the failure of policies of previous years .

"Cristina will apply the adjustment with popular support, accusing the previous leader," Calvo said during a dialogue with DF. He added, "I'm not in favor of Cristina or her people, but I have to admit something: if Cristina goes up, she can look back and say," Look at the mess this man has left us. Now I have to make the adjustments that he should have made and not.

In turn, the economist said that if Macri badumed that "investors have more time to recover their money, because Macri has shown no ability to handle this situation".

In addition, in view of the elections, he believes that it is possible that the Fernandez won in the first round. "Given the appearance of José Luis Espert, he can vote for Macri. Then, suddenly, the Fernandez win in the first round, "said the man who had been proposed to become Minister of Economy under the government of Carlos Menem and Eduardo Duhalde.

He also said that "you have to do politically very unpopular things, which can only be done if the economy is broken".

"The central question of Argentina is credibility. So nobody makes ambitious investment plans. The investment has collapsed and we can not blame the government; It is already an electoral problem, "he said.

Regarding the positive forecasts of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) compared to the Argentine economy, he said that "the predictions are good, because I do not know who can seriously predict and, moreover, hope and nothing of other, because there is room to fall much stronger. "

And he went further: "As far as the drama is concerned, we could see if a government came suddenly saying," Well, we will not pay it to the lowest, "we go back to play the 2001 game That would be very strong. "