"The Argentineans do not want to go back in the past," Macri said at the end of his tour of Asia

President Mauricio Macri said "convinced" that "the Argentines do not want to go back in the past" with reference to the candidates for the October elections, and He said that it was not yet decided who would accompany him in the re-election formulasince "there is time" for that.
"I am the first to understand that the path of change we have begun begins. Then, the worst thing I can do is give up all the Argentineans They truly believe that there is an inclusive Argentina with a better democratic quality that bets on solid institutions. An Argentina where you do not lie, you do not fly and where you have progressed, but you still have a lot to do "Macri said in an interview published by Clarín, carried out during the presidential tour conducted by India, Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates.
Macri badured: "I am convinced that the Argentines do not want to go back ", after adding that he is "ready to be a candidate".

In addition, he confided that "it was not decided yet" who would be his candidate for the vice-presidency: "We have four months to come and many problems to solve. we must finish getting out of all the consequences of the storms of last year "and "we need to focus on management," he said.
Consulted to find out if the former president and the current senator Cristina Kirchner will be a candidate, she replied: "Whenever I predicted something about what the ex-president was going to do, I did not succeed"then "ask another," he says.
The President stressed 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 and with fewer freedoms, or we truly believe in the capacity for innovation and creation that we have , Argentines ".
"Right here there is clearly a development model it started to take its first steps. But we must be consistent and persist, "he suggested.
On the other hand, it has ratified the "goal" of reducing poverty, but warned against "structural poverty, to which no one has ever treated in 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 develop and grow. to accompany us in this evolution, inflation will come down. "
"This year will be significantly lower than the previous one. 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 in this direction, we will see a systematic decline in inflation, "he said.
The head of state estimated that the dollar "is the same as in September. we must believe that this monetary policy gives predictability to the Argentine economy that I did not have before and that the public budget is respected ".
"You must also understand that the markets are conditioned by the electoral theme: when they see clearly that Argentina will continue on the path of change, the entire environment of the financial system will improve rapidly, "he said.

"To the hesitant Argentines, I tell them that if they do not reach my word, they must listen to what the leaders of the world have said. that they visited us at the G20 and that they are sure we must persist, "he asked.
On the question of whether it is appropriate that there are trainees in Cambiemos, as requested by some radical leaders, Macri said: "My goal is management. And what the National Council of Change decides, it will go for me. I trust this mechanism and there it will be evacuated. "
And concerning the deputy Martín Lousteau, who is part of the presidential entourage in Asia, who expressed the order of PASO, the first president said that "everyone has the right to express" and that he "invited them 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 Venezuelan modela, that I was going to this terminal crisis. And now, he sees 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".

Agency: Telam