Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s son questions the Argentina-IMF agreement again

The pro-government Argentine deputy Máximo Kirchner, son of the late former president Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and the current Argentine vice president, Cristina Fernandezquestioned again this Saturday the heavy burden that the debt refinancing agreement signed in March 2022 with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

In an act in Buenos Aires before some 5,000 militants of the ruling Frente de Todos, Máximo Kirchner recalled that he was opposed, as a deputy, to ratify the agreement on extended facilities that the Government of Alberto Fernandez signed with the Fund to refinance some 45,000 million dollars of loans owed to that body.

At times when Argentina experiencing serious difficulties in meeting the demanding goals included in the agreement, the Kirchner leader recalled the burden of maturities with the IMF that the country must face in the coming years, with commitments only in 2024 for 15,000 million dollars.

“This is the future of Argentina. That is the reality and the realities are not denied, they are faced”held.

The deputy recalled that, when the negotiations for the agreement with the IMFthe then Argentine Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, assured him that the managing director of the Fund, the Bulgarian Kristalina Georgieva, was “a woman who suffered a lot in her childhood in Bulgaria, who has great social sense and great empathy with what What happens to the peoples?

“I ask Mrs. Georgieva of the IMF that, if Guzmán did not lie to me, that she not be so perverse as to apply to 40 million Argentines what she suffered as a child. She is in that place and can really change the course of the history of a great country like Argentina. A country and no nation in the world does not deserve this treatment.”he claimed.

During the act, maximum kirchner He launched strong criticism against the libertarians and against the leaders of Together for Change, the main opposition front in Argentina, at a time when the political dispute is growing in the face of the primary elections in August and the presidential elections next October.

The deputy made no mention of the president’s decision Alberto Fernandez to announce this Friday that he is giving up his idea of ​​running for re-election.

He also did not allude to what decision his mother will finally make, who last December assured that he would not compete this year for any position, despite which his followers insist that he appear, even at the event this Saturday, chanting at all times “Cristina Chairwoman”.

But he asked that the militancy accompany the next April 27 to Cristina Fernandezwho will reappear in public that day, in an act to be held at the Teatro Argentino in the Buenos Aires city of La Plata.

(With information from EFE)