2023-12-08 23:09:01
Two days before the presidential inauguration of Javier Milei, Alberto Fernández says goodbye to his mandate with a message that is broadcast on the national network. “We came to stand up a country that had been left on its knees,” he said.
In his last message as president, Alberto Fernández summarizes the four years of his administration, the difficulties he faced with the pandemic and the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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Alberto Fernández on national television: “I feel regret for not having been able to achieve what we came to do.” (Photo: national chain capture).
The main phrases of Alberto Fernández in his last speech as president
“In this time we have not managed to resolve a solid economic matrix that allows access to a dignified life”; “We set social justice as a horizon, but we did not reach it”; “I feel regret for not having been able to achieve what we came to do and I know that I have responsibility for everything”; “I hand over the Government in peace. I trust in the people, in political maturity and at this particular moment in the world we must be calm and recover dialogue”; “In these four years we have suffered the negative effects of a debt that the government that presided over me took on, that is the main cause of the social and economic crisis”; “We came to stand up a country that had been left on its knees”;
This Wednesday, Alberto Fernández said goodbye to the Casa Rosada workers with a toast: “I leave with the peace of mind of having recomposed the salary of state workers, although I have the enormous regret of not having been able to solve the problem of poverty.” , he expressed.
Alberto Fernández led his last New Year’s Eve toast at the Casa Rosada.
A few minutes later, Alberto Fernández added: “I’m leaving through the same door I entered, with the same car I entered in, and to the house where I left. And I hope to see you all always. “You and I know that we work for the people,” he stated, and paraphrased Luis Alberto Spinetta, stating as a farewell: “Tomorrow is better.”
On Thursday, the president carried out one of his last events as Head of State and took a trip within the framework of the Mercosur summit, which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
They denounced Alberto Fernández for questioning the measurement of poverty
This Tuesday, President Alberto Fernández was the recipient of a complaint for “abuse and breach of authority and violation of the duties of a public official.” Strictly speaking, the president questioned the poverty figures released by INDEC.
The complainant is Dr. Valeria Laura Carreras, close to hard Kirchnerism, who asked that Fernández not be able to leave Argentina as the outgoing president planned. “It is urgently requested – as a precautionary measure – that Dr. Alberto Fernández be prevented from leaving the country,” details file N°4290/2023.
They denounce Alberto Fernández for questioning the measurement of poverty and ask that he not leave the country.
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The lawyer close to the vice president, Cristina Kirchner, details in the complaint that she specifically requests a ban on leaving the country “after it emerged that the current president would move in with his family in Spain.”
In the last few hours, Fernández said in an interview with Diario Perfil that for him “poverty is poorly measured,” and that “if there were such an amount of poverty (40%), Argentina would be destroyed.”
“I fear that people will not tell the whole truth, because if you ask a person and they say ‘I have a plan’, from then on they start lying because they are afraid that it will be taken away from them,” he said.
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Given Fernández’s statements, the complaint specifies that “we are undoubtedly facing a breach of public official duties via omission.”
In closing, the author of the complaint questioned: “That an outgoing president comes planning his ‘removal’ from Argentine soil, settling his family beforehand, making contacts for future positions or jobs in the country of destination, in this case Spain, establishing with a possible ‘transfer’ date immediately after handing over command, it is something I have never seen in any former president.”
Alberto Fernández said that poverty is “badly measured.” (Photo: presidential press)
Alberto Fernández said that poverty is “badly measured”
When explaining the economic crisis that Argentina is suffering, the President relativized the poverty index published by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC), which in the first half of 2023 was 40.1%.
“Poverty is poorly measured. If there were such an amount of poverty, Argentina would be destroyed. I cannot understand how it is reconciled that there is 40% poverty and at the same time we have had 37 consecutive months of registered job creation,” he declared in dialogue with Noticias Argentinas.
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His explanation has to do with the fact that these data are measured through the Permanent Household Survey, in which people “might not tell the whole truth.”
“If you ask a person who has a family what income they have and they say ‘I have a plan’, from then on they start lying because they are afraid that it will be taken away from them,” justified the head of state.
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