The deputy and presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza, Javier Milei, reiterated today that in case of reaching the Executive Branch he intends to “dollarize” the economy and create an “offshore bank.” In addition, he described the agricultural sector as a “locomotive” of the economy when participating in the meeting organized by the Argentine Rural Society (SRA) on its property in Palermo.
“If Congress rejects dollarization, I’m not going to cry. I’m going to hold a popular consultation,” said Milei. In this sense, the deputy pointed out that “he doesn’t give a damn what they say about dollarization” and stressed that it is “robbery for the State to print money to finance the treasury.”
He also indicated that “there are different ways to dollarize” and mentioned that he is studying the possibility of “banking offshoring” in order to “avoid runs.”
And it was stressed that he intends to close the Central Bank since he conceives it as “an element by which they defraud the entire population.” “They make us all poorer,” he stressed.
Before the Argentine Rural Society, the libertarian leader affirmed that “the countryside” would be one of the sectors that would benefit from this measure since “the exchange rate gap would be eliminated” and thus, the countryside “would have to triple its income.” “They would be taking their foot off them and they could grow and contribute a lot,” he emphasized.
In a speech with many nods to the sector, Milei highlighted: “The Argentine countryside is the best in the world, the gap is banked, withholdings are banked, 22 more taxes and expropriations.” For this reason, she classified it as “the best in the world” and stressed that it has to be “the star and the locomotive” of the economy.
Present at the event are the CICyP board of directors chaired by Marcos Pereda, also the head of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA); Daniel Funes de Rioja, the representative of the Stock Exchange Adelmo Gabbi and the businessmen Martín Cabrales (Cabrales); Bettina Bulgheroni (Samconsult), among others.
The various JxC presidential candidates also participated in the event, such as Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, the president of the PRO, Patricia Bullrich and the head of the UCR, Gerardo Morales; and Hacemos por Córdoba will present their proposals.
