Mauricio Macri, in front of his ministers: "We must get used to coexist with this volatility of the dollar" – 26/04/2019

When Mauricio Macri He entered the room of the Quinta de Olivos where the ministers were waiting for the usual meeting of the Council of Ministers. The dollar had announced a sharp decline compared to the closing on Thursday, before rising again. As a result, his team looked more relaxed and among the officials, lectures were given. The president was calm but he warned them that they will have to "get used to coexist with this volatility" of the dollar and asked them to convey "tranquility".

Macri's message was consistent with what he had mentioned on the radio on Thursday afternoon, when he had said that the price of the US currency and the country risk escalation over 1,000 points had been communicated because the markets had "doubted" Argentina because they think he wants "the return of Kirchnerism". As instability of the dollar price, according to the president, is not based on economic parameters, but on political badessments, the head of state believes that this situation will continue, at least until we returned to normal in the investigations. "You have to get used to the coexistence with this volatility of the dollar," he said Friday.

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Therefore, the head of state urged his team "to continue to work and to keep calm", despite the currency crisis and political speculation caused by such instability, which could rebuild Clarin through several protagonists of the meeting. "We have to do our job the best we can, if they see us calm down, it will start to change, this madness is changed to generate tranquility," wrote one of the ministers.

"Even if she has a chance, it will not change," said another official, after meeting with Macri.

Maybe because at that moment the dollar had started down, the meeting with the ministers did not only talk about the economy: the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, spoke about the National System of Complaints Against Gender Violence (Siviogen), the program created by the government to unify denunciations and reports that police services across the country need to provide a more agile response to victims.

The discussion continued with the Law on Jurisdiction over Drug Trafficking and Progress in the Processing of Judges' Documents, at the Ministry of Justice's charge, Germán Garavano.

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There was also talk of the 30th strike and the May Day demonstration, another of the challenges the government will face next week. The Minister Guillermo Dietrich He counted on measures taken in his region to ensure that "the right of those who do not want to stop" is respected. Bullrich, in this sense, was energetic: "We will avoid cuts to routes and access to the city"

In the presence of the two main parliamentary representatives of space, the provisional Speaker of the Senate, Federico Pinedo; and the head of the Chamber of Deputies, Emilio Monzó; in the Cabinet, the approval of the law on the financing of political parties has been highlighted and the way in which the operation of the Congress in the perspective of the OSP will be screened.

Pinedo has received praise from the head of state for Miguel Pichetto, one of the key men of opposition in the Senate. "He's a true statesman," Macri praised before all the ministers. This is because of the message sent by the leader of the PJ bloc, candidate for the presidency of the federal alternative, during his visit to New York, where he spoke to investors. He stated that he had "clear conviction of compliance, of state continuity and that, for Argentina, the worst place was the default."

The link between Macri and Pichetto was from minor to major and today, the president he does not want to recognize the rionegrino. Even in their environment, they recognize it as "the best of them" (compared to the opposition). For the moment, this does not give rise to any offer of constitution to the government (A Pichetto, who wants to compete for the presidency, is the seat of the Senate), although for the moment, the Casa Rosada does not embrace the purist logic of other times. , where he was rejected to limine the opening request of the political wing.

Do Macri and Peña both know that even if we manage to impose, change, we need additional strengths as soon as the second term starts to move forward with the structural reforms needed to complete the implementation of the economic and productive model sought.