IMF waiver: the government has requested permission to include a clause

The Government has asked the International Monetary Fund to "waiver"which should be approved by the agency at the meeting to be held Friday in Washington approve the third part of the loan signed.

What is a waiver? Permission to violate a precautionary clause established in the contract with the international organization.

This authorization stems from the details of the agenda to be dealt with by the executive board of the agency on Friday during the meeting at which they will evaluate the third review of the loan to Argentina, according to El Cronista newspaper.

For its part, spokesperson for the Ministry of Finance, who heads Nicolás Dujovne, they downplayed the problem and stressed that "it's a technical detail" for something that "did not happen one day".

"Argentina requested an exemption from the application and the staff recommends to the Commission to approve it, because at the end of the examination, some budget data were not available at the end of March.", they said in the economic portfolio and added:"It's just the availability of certain data. "

The government expects the board of directors of the agency approves the third revision of the loan to Argentina, which is expected to trigger the fourth disbursement of 10,870 millions of dollars on April 15th.