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‘I’m warning you that something bigger is coming’: Miley pushes for deep reform of the Argentine state

  • December 21, 2023
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“I warn you that there is more to come. They’ll soon find out. We are going to convene extraordinary (sessions) (in the National Congress) and send the bill

I warn you that there is more to come. They’ll soon find out. We are going to convene extraordinary (sessions) (in the National Congress) and send the bill to change of stateor,” said this Thursday Argentine President Javier Miley, who on Wednesday presented an ambitious project that plans to reform more than three hundred regulations and laws.

The intention of the far-right president, an economist by profession, deregulate sectors of the economy which, in his opinion, are engulfed in a tangle of bureaucratic regulations and protectionists who impede the recovery of productive investment and strengthening economic activity.

“Among the laws, regulations and other regulations that impede the functioning of the economy and a free society, we found about 380 thousand regulations. We want to dismantle this machine of prevention“He said this on Thursday on Radio Rivadavia.

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But a set of measures to deregulate the economy and the public sector was received with displeasure by citizen sector.

After the president announced the plan Wednesday nightHundreds of protesters gathered outside the headquarters of the National Congress to continue the protest that a few hours ago was carried out by about three thousand people who marched through the streets of the center of Buenos Aires.

The night mobilization, which lasted until early morning, was also felt in various quarters of the capital and other cities of the country, where residents staged a protest noisy protest from windows and balconies, banging of pots and pans and household utensils.

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Criticism of “nostalgic for communism”

“Maybe there are people who suffer Stockholm syndrome, “She is in love with a model who impoverishes her,” Miley answered in an interview with Rivadavia, for which the rejection of her project by part of the population is comparable to the emotions caused by the ideas of the radical left.

“There are also people who look with nostalgia, love and affection for communism“, said.

Miley confirmed today that the stabilization plan, announced a few days after the President took office on December 10, aims to put an end to the budget deficit, the main reason for the accelerating inflation that the country is suffering from, while the ambitious program announced Wednesday evening aims to dismantle a regulatory framework it says is hampering Argentina’s economic growth.

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The new head of state warned lawmakers not to support his plan in Congress: “It will become obvious to the Argentines who is against progress and who is casteist.. This is about gaining freedom, competitiveness and prosperity in the form of better products at better prices,” he said emphatically.

Miley admitted that some measures “unfriendly“But he noted that in order to stop high inflation, which exceeded 160% annually in November last year, it is necessary adopt a stabilization program announced the new Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, on December 12.

Being dishonest about prices will lead to a worse outcome.“Said the first economist-president in the history of Argentina. “I tell the middle class that they will benefit from lower inflation and an improving economy; and that he will have a better job and a better standard of living.”

(EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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