Lavagna fired Macri for waste of IMF loan on capital flight

The presidential candidate by federal consensus, Roberto Lavagna, coincided with Alberto Fernandez, Front of all candidate, in which disbursements that the government receives from the IMF are used for capital flight. In this regard, he said that the agreement with the multilateral credit agency should be challenged.

As part of a conference at the Confederación Intercooperativa Agropecuaria Limitada (CONINAGRO), the former Minister of Economy stressed that "the Fund has carried out an absolutely extraordinary operation, which involves lending a fund very important to Argentina ". Then he warned that the loan "was delivered almost entirely to one government and in reality used to finance capital flight, the exit of the speculative capitals which entered the first years of this government ".

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Similarly, Lavagna added that "the agreement with the IMF must be reconsidered as part of a redesign of the Argentine economy. It does not just start with the Fund, but with a profound and internal change in our economy. "

In another aspect, questioned about the retentions, the candidate said that "it will have to be seen at that time," but he pointed out that "We have to stop doing demagoguery and stop saying that there will be no retention as the current government did, because it is a mechanism of deception that is repeat for years. "" I say the same thing as what I had said 15 years ago when I was minister: deductions are a crude, rude and bad tax, which must be converted into a more modern tax and more agile such as income tax, "he added.