After the scandal, the Government reversed the controversial decision of INDEC to modify, among other things, the date of publication of the sensitive consumer price index (CPI) for April, which is estimated to offer bad news to the ruling party. In the organism they had justified the decision by the electoral ban that will be in five provinces that day.
The director of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec), Marco Lavagna, ratified tonight the original calendar for the dissemination of publications -among them the Consumer Price Index for April-, announcing that the changes that had been announced this morning “they will be without effect and the technical reports will be disseminated on the dates established” twelve months ago.
Through a statement, Lavagna regretted that “the intention to separate the statistical work of the Institute from the electoral process was misinterpreted and suspicions were aroused about the integrity of the INDEC technical teams.”
“We consider that it is a good practice not to provide statistical information in the middle of the closure but, given the controversy caused, the four dates will remain in their originally established scheme,” Lavagna said.
“We apologize and soon the dates will be restored on the website,” said the official
INDEC had announced this morning its decision to update the calendar for the dissemination of publications because the original calendar coincided with electoral ban dates in several provinces.
Through a press release, the agency had informed this morning that the dissemination calendar was updated because, “from the recheck of the publications scheduled for this month, we detected dates that coincided with the ban on provincial elections installed at posteriori of our annual diffusion scheme”.
