Espert does not hide its recipe: it must imitate what countries like Chile, Uruguay and Peru do

Espert, who announced that he would run for presidency in the upcoming presidential elections led by the Libertarian Party, questioned the government's economic plan and claimed that "we must emulate what countries like us do to those who do well, such as Chile, Uruguay and Peru".

He explained that the decline of 7.5% of economic activity in the comparison of November 2018 with the same month of last year "It was more predictable", however "The most disturbing is the very sharp drop of more than 2% of November compared to October 2018". "The activity collapses, it's the worst recession since 2009"he said.

In dialogue with Continental Radio, he blamed society because "We've been voting for 35 years, we have to ask ourselves what we're doing wrong".

"I will campaign saying what to do. The necessary condition is that the campaign says what it will do, said Espert, who has spoken in favor of "an economy open to the world, who negotiates, who has an amount of tax to pay, not this delusion, and another unionism"

Finally, the economist is described as "anti-system"at the same time, he said that he had "a different vision of what needs to be done".

The Finance Ministry estimated that last year had ended with a 2.4% fall in the economy.

According to the figures published by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec), economic activity fell by 7.5% in November compared with the same month in 2017 and was the largest decline in the last eleven months of last year and the largest since 2009.

The agency also reported that Monthly estimator of economic activity (Emae) decreased by 2.3% in November compared to October, thus accumulating a decline in 2.2% in 2018.

The Ministry of Finance estimated that last year ended with a fall in the economy of the 2.4%.

In November, the setbacks of 17% in the wholesale and retail trade, 12.6% in the industry, from 11.4% in construction, 5.2% in hotels and restaurants; 4.9% in transportation; 7.1% in the financial sector, among others.

Only sectors such as agriculture and livestock have experienced annual growth in 1.9%, the distribution sector of water, gas and electricity, 0.7%; l & # 39; education 1% and health services 0.5%.