Roberto Lavagna replied to Macri: "Do not be nervous, I can not compete with the thousands of trolls"

The former Minister of Economy, Roberto Lavagna, responded to criticism of President Mauricio Macri during an interview with Ernesto Tenembaum in the writing of Infobae.

"It is clear that Macri is nervous, so it has reasons to be it. The country is wrong, it is very bad economically", he introduced, and replied:"In any case, if we talk about the past, when the president realizes an economy with growth of 9%, inflation of 10%, a double surplus and the creation of jobs, we are talking about"

Yesterday evening, in a report with Luis Majul, the President had underlined several decisions made by Lavagna as minister of Néstor Kirchner, saying that it was at the base of the understanding of the economic problems that Argentina faced today hui.

The economist, who has not yet confirmed whether he would run for presidential elections in the August primaries, was also very severe about the strategy of change, which was to designate "heritage" as responsible for the economic disadvantages. : "When you try to exercise a public service, the only thing you can not afford, is to moan, you have to govern, you have to do less worms, less marketing and work more."

Here are the most important phrases from the interview with Roberto Lavagna:

– (On the criticism of Macri) "When the president achieves economic growth of 9%, with inflation below 10%, with a budget surplus, a surplus in dollar accounts and between 1.8 million and 2.000.000 jobs created, we return to the discussion. "

– "When you are in such a high inflation situation, the first thing to do is to call the different social sectors and try to reach an agreement." It is essential, it existed in 2002, just as there was a president by consensus, a society that: he understood, a pact with the sectors of power … "

– "When you try to exercise a public service, the only thing you can not afford, is to moan, you have to govern, you have to do less worms, less marketing and work more."

– "Rates have reached absurd levels simply because the friends who are in the companies have to invest, then invest with Argentinian money"

– (During CFK's trip to Cuba and Mauricio Macri's statements about his father) "It seems pathetic that we use the family for electoral purposes"

– (On the causes of corruption) "This is not a judge, there are many judges, there are cameras, ultimately the court, each case depends on a group of 20, 25 This is what we use to all of guarantee.has to continue. "

– "I have not met the Tinelli who makes the pipe dance, I have met the businessman who pays 400 salaries a month, who works in a competitive sector and can be he is an entrepreneur who carries on other activities ".

– "When they talk about my relationship with Barrionuevo, the gorilla goes out who believes that the unions must disappear.When you scratch a little, they think that unions should not exist and I think the opposite in many areas."

– "I can not compete with the thousands of trolls, I do not have a media structure, I have nothing, that (Macri) is trachyline, that he is not nervous".

– "To be proud is to insist that this is the only way, in any case, it is the only way that has come to him, the Fund and many people who earn a lot of money with this project .

– "I am out of any public office for many years, I am an ordinary citizen without any benefit.If I received something, it is the attitude of people to recognize. General, they tell me: "You have got us out of the crisis" and I answer: "I was part of a team that individualized the way, but the effort was of the company".

– "The political activity is transient and when it is not transient, it goes astray.When touched, the results are there for anyone who wants to see them."

– "Work is now infinitely easier than before"

– "The problem is the speculative capitals that tend to go before the slightest doubt, because you let them in. You have to let the capitals come in to make factories or produce services."

– "When you go to Davos and make monkeys, they are usually speculative capitals, serious capitalists wait to see what they do, and as they saw what they did, they are only not come. "

– "I do not know what are the objectives of Macri, there is so much marketing … One day, he talks about green shoots, I do not know … The whole discussion was about the fact that if the "error was gradualism rather than shock, everyone thinks it's a correct argument and I think it's a discussion that's useless."

– "If you propose to go to Misiones and take the Bahía Blanca road, you make a mistake, so do it at 100 or 120 km / h, nothing changes, the problem was that: a wrong approach ".

– "Perón was not a Peronist, he was a Peronist, Peronism was used for everything: to make politics from left to right, justicialism is a movement that includes Christian social sectors and social areas -democrats ".