The director of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec), Marco Lavagnaratified 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 on Wednesday morning “they will be without effect and the technical reports will be disseminated on the established dates” twelve months ago.
Through a statement, Lavagna lamented that “the intention to separate the Institute’s statistical work from the electoral process was misinterpreted and suspicions were aroused about the integrity of INDEC’s 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 indicated that the dissemination calendar was updated because, “after rechecking the publications scheduled for this month, we detected dates that coincided with the prohibition of provincial elections installed after our annual diffusion scheme”.