Macri trusts his re-election: "The Argentines do not want to go back" – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

President Mauricio Macri badured that he was "convinced" that "Argentines do not want to go back to the past" as regards the candidates for the October elections, and stated that it was not yet decided which would accompany him in the re-election formula, because "there was time".

"I am the first to understand that the path of change that we started begins. the worst thing I can do is give up all the Argentines who really believe that there is an Argentina included in the world, with a better democratic quality and bet on solid institutions. An Argentina where you do not lie, you do not fly and where you have progressed, but there is still a long way to go, "said Macri in an interview published in the newspaper. Clarin, made during the presidential tour that he made in India, Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates.

Macri said: "I am convinced that the Argentineans do not want to go back", after adding that he is "ready to be a candidate".

He also confided that "It is not decided yet" who will be your partner of formula: "We have four months to come and many problems to solve, we must first overcome all the consequences of the storms of last year", and "we must focus on management", he declared.

When asked if the former president and current Senator Cristina Kirchner would be a candidate, she replied: "Whenever I predicted something that the ex-president was going to do, I could not do it."then "ask another," he said.

The president said that in the next elections, "we play if we want to go back in time, isolate ourselves from the world, return to a more authoritarian system with fewer freedoms, or if we really believe in the ability to innovate. and creation of Argentines ".

"Here, there is clearly a development model that has begun to take its first steps, but we must be consistent and persistent," he suggested.

On the other hand, it has ratified this "goal" of poverty reduction, but warned against "structural poverty, of which no one has been occupied for several years".

On the other hand, said that "to the extent that we maintain a balanced budget, we have a clear monetary policy and we continue to focus on reducing taxes so that the private sector can grow and we accompany in this evolution, inflation will fall ".

"This year will be significantly lower than the year before. We are still in the order of 3%, but we must think that we are down from the 6% we had in September and October. If we continue along this path, we will see a steady decline in inflation, "he said.

The head of state has estimated that the dollar "is identical to what it was in September, so we must believe that this monetary policy gives the Argentine economy a predictability that it had not before and that the public budget is respected ".

"We must also understand that the markets are conditioned by the electoral problem: when they will see clearly that Argentina will continue on the path of change, the entire environment of the financial system will improve rapidly," he said. he declared.

"To the hesitant Argentines, I tell them that they do not tell me their word, they must listen to what the world's leaders who visited us during the G20 visit said and are sure we must persist" he asked.

Macri said he agreed that there were trainees in Cambiemos, as some radical leaders demanded: "I'm focusing on management, and whatever the National Change Board decides, it will be very good for me … mechanism and it will be evacuated. "

And regarding the MP Martin Lousteau, who is part of the presidential entourage in Asia, who has manifested the demand of the OSP, the first president said that "everyone has the right to express"and that he "invited to know those countries that are very important partners of Argentina".

At the end of the interview, Macri interpreted that "the world clearly saw that Argentina was reproducing the model of Venezuela, that he was heading towards this terminal crisis and that he sees now that Argentina, with difficulties, is going in the right direction ".

But he stressed that none of the countries emerged from the crisis "did it overnight".