“Sarasa Bombs”: Opposition to the President's Speech for the “War on Inflation”

Alberto Fernández's speech on the details of how the “war on inflation” will begin, after Congress approved the agreement with the IMF, generated jokes and criticism from opposition leaders on social media. From Juntos por el Cambio they observed “lack of leadership” in the President and lack of a concrete plan to control the price increase. “Sarasa bombs,” one of them ironized.

In the speech, which did not have concrete measures to boost the fall in prices, the President anticipated that a “stabilization fund will be set up in order to prevent the transfer of this increase in the international price to the price that Argentines and Argentines pay” and said that the ministers of the economic area will take the measures necessary and will be responsible for communicating them from tomorrow.

“The President came to the battle against inflation very weak because of the onslaught of his own party. To call for a great national agreement, strength is needed. There were no announcements today, only the insinuation of the stick of the Supply Act. Day 1 of the War: very poor”, analyzed Mario Negri, UCR reference.

From the same space, Alfredo Cornejo added: “Without a balance of expenses and revenues, without lowering emissions and without increasing the production of goods, inflation will not decrease. A lot of story and no measure. We will have to keep waiting for an announcement, but experience tells us not to have much expectation.”

On the other hand, the liberal José Luis Espert recalled that from his space Avanza Libertad they presented a bill to repeal the Supply Law, which Fernández said he could apply. “Now he says it is necessary,” he protested.

During his speech, the president threatened unilateral measures from the State if he did not reach an understanding with all the sectors involved: “We hope to find agreements that will help lower inflation and ensure the increase in the purchasing power of wages. We will not stop controlling and controlling prices, applying the law of supply if necessary and using all the instruments available to the state to meet the objective of controlling prices.”

One of the members of the hardest wing of the PRO, Patricia Bullrich posted: “We have seen a president lacking leadership, who could not announce a single measure to combat the drama of inflation. In the end, the war wasn't even a parade.”

“He didn't announce. Soup again. It's someone else's fault again. There's no plan again. Aren't we talking about cutting with the little machine? Everything that was announced has already failed and we all know that we are not on the right track,” said former governor María Eugenia Vidal.

For the Civic Coalition, Maximiliano Ferraro denounced that “there is no plan. Not a concrete measure against inflation and uncontrolled monetary issuance. You only insist on a failed recipe: more controls and restrictions. Sarasa”. In the same vein, Alfonso Prat Gay ironized: “Sarasa bombs”.

“The government is going aimlessly and without a roadmap. He improvises on the fly and boasts of not doing what Argentina urgently needs: reforms. The 'war on inflation' is nothing more than the continuity of policies that led us to failure,” said Fabio Quetglas, UCR national deputy.

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