Friday, September 28, 2018 “We’re always going to tell the truth” Press statement of president Mauricio Macri.

MIL OSI Translation. Region: Spanish/Latin America/A –

Source: Republic of Argentina

“Poverty does not go away because you stop to measure it. We will always tell the truth and present the figures as they are,” said the chairman Mauricio Macri, and said that the priority of the Government in this emergency will continue to be accompanied “with concrete answers to those most in need”.

The Head of State noted that the measurement of the poverty index released today by the Indec “is a number that we expected”, because it “reflects the turbulence of recent months and the difficulties that we are going through.”

“It is not a news easy. Clear that we wish were different. And what else would I want you to keep coming here to confírmarles time and time again that we are advancing in the reduction of poverty, as happened during the previous measurements,” he said in a statement to the press that offered in the living Room of the Original Peoples of the Casa Rosada.

“But we do not believe that the country can progress by hiding the data as was done for so long,” he warned.

He said that now the Government “presents the figures as they are, without denying the crisis”, and underlined that “we know that in the future, with the same sincerity, we will be able to tell you how the country is moving forward”.

“It is good to remember that when we came to Government we found a poverty of 32.2 percent, or one out of every three argentines live in poverty,” he said.

“And even that data was real. It reflected a reality made-up, laced with wires, because I had a contained inflation and as with stocks, prohibitions, tariffs are unsustainable-that we were led to believe that the energy was free,” he warned.

He argued that, simultaneously, there was “a State that wasted resources to make us believe that we could also live in a reality invented, always kicking the problems forward.”

“But many of the argentines we choose to change, we mature, we decided to take care of our present to build a different future,” he said.

“I wasn’t going to be easy, but we are convinced that this is the only way that we and our children can have a better life. We have difficult months ahead, but our objective remains the same that we have from the first day. Our goal is and will always remain to reduce poverty”, he added.

He recalled that “from that we can assume we had moments of progress in that we get poverty down,” and said that “he encouraged us to continue working with the millions of argentines who were still and are still living in a difficult situation”.

“Now, in the wake of this storm, we know that things are going to take longer. The results that were to come before are now going to take, and the poverty indicators for the measurements of march and September are also going to show flashbacks,” he said.

But he emphasized that “we’re not going to stop talking about poverty and less quitting work to reduce it because we have setbacks”.

“We’re going to keep this goal until the end of my mandate, and we’re going to leave the foundations ready for you to come to who come can continue this way until you meet definitely with this objective”, he emphasized.

Macri said that “everything that we do in every area of Government, all seeking consensus and international support, support of the world, all of this has a single aim: to ensure that increasingly more argentines can come out of poverty.”

The President asserted that “while we work for this goal, we will continue to accompany those who most need it, we’re going to give concrete answers where there is more urgency.”

“That’s why a few days ago, the beneficiaries of the Universal Allocation by Son received an extra payment”, he said.

“And we increase the amounts of social programs. We also extend the Pricing program Care with a special focus on foods from the basic food basket. Re-launch the credits Anses and we extend the program ‘The Market in your Neighborhood’ to be able to access to cheaper products without intermediaries,” he added.

He recalled that “in December we will return to increase the social programs and we’re going to make another extra payment to the beneficiaries of the AUH”.

“In addition, we must always remember that the biggest part of the budget that we are now debating in Congress for the next year is destined to social investment as never before what it was,” he said.

He stated that “this has to do with the priority today is to be with those most in need in this emergency.”

“A short time ago, I told them that the argentines live too many crisis. And this has to be the last. And together, after this storm, we are going to grow”, said the President.

“I know the effort they are making. I see your reality. I don’t have. I know how much it costs them this time. And that is why I have redoubled my commitment to alivianarles the load. To go forward, always with the truth, always looking at reality in the face. Always giving the best of ourselves as what we are doing,” he added.

“I would not be here if you weren’t convinced of that, I say. And I would not be here if not to trust deeply in you and in all what we can achieve. This is the way”, he concluded.

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