Macri in Vietnam: "Argentines do not want to go back to the past"

President Mauricio Macri returns to our country Friday on a commercial flight from Emirates after an official tour of India, Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates to create new markets for Argentine products.

The head of state went with the first lady, Juliana Awada; Deputy Head of Cabinet, Andrés Ibarra; Chancellor Jorge Faurie; the secretaries for strategic affairs, Fulvio Pompeo; international economic relations, Horacio Reyser, and Agroindustria, LuisEtchevehere; Presidential spokesman Iván Pavlovsky and about 120 businessmen, mainly SMEs from regional economies.

During his tour, the President continued his discussions with the aim of deepening commercial integration and opening up new sources of work in sectors such as agribusiness, renewable energies and new technologies, among others.

In the last few hours, Macri has given two interviews to Clarín and La Nación

The head of state discussed national news, elections, rearmament of the opposition and outstanding issues that he will have to deal with until October.

L & # 39; inflation

Macri was asked about inflation and said he would not make more forecasts, but added: "We are on the order of 3% per month, but we have to think that we went from 6% in September and October, so let's see a systematic fall. "

Finally, he returned to compare his experience as president with the kidnappings he suffered in August 1991 and said, "I am the first to know how difficult the events were in 2018 and the consequences that resulted. I say that if they do not say a word to me, they should listen to what the world leaders who visited us at the G20 said and are certain that we must persist. "

Questions

– Peronism joined this week to reject its decree of necessity and urgency regarding the extinction of power, what do you think of that?

– What does Peronism do poorly. We do not propose the DNU because there was already three years of debate in Congress and the truth is that the Argentines want them to return what they stole.

– Have you been surprised by the union of different sectors such as Kirchnerism and Federal Peronism?

– As Argentina, it hurts. There exists (in the PJ) a vocation to preserve privileges and abuses at any price. We can not like that …

– Are you ready to allow the internal candidate for the presidential candidacy to take up the challenge of the UCR?

– I have not decided yet, but I will accept what the national table of Cambiemos says (its referents are Marcos Peña, Maria Eugenia Vidal, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, Francisco Quintana and Rogelio Frigerio). I invited Martin Lousteau (on tour) to help him understand the world. I hope this has helped you to learn and convey that.

– Do you see the former president (Cristina Kirchner) being her rival in October?

– That's not what I visualize, that's what the company says. We do not encourage it. This is how she and her husband ran the country for 12 years and some believe that an isolated model of the world and based on the fact that the state will provide everything will be sustainable over time. Populism awakens fascination for a while because, of course, all the country's reserves are distributed. They left after destroying all the reserves. Everything had been consumed.