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Diana Mondino: “I would be an excellent chancellor, Argentina needs to return to the world”

The economist and candidate for national deputy of La Libertad Avanza would be in charge of Foreign Relations if Javier Milei reaches the Presidency of the Nation

Diana Mondino heads the list of national deputies of La Libertad Avanza

When Javier Milei appointed her to head the list of national deputies of La Libertad Avanza for the City of Buenos Aires, Diana Mondino announced that her “mission” would be focused on the reintegration of Argentina into the world. After the surprising result of the PASO, with the real possibility that the libertarian leader will arrive at Casa Rosada, the economist began to imagine herself at the head of the country’s Foreign Relations: “I would be an excellent chancellor.”

After a year of talks, at the end of May Mondino accepted Milei’s proposal to integrate the LLA payroll and celebrated it with a tweet in which he said: “With Javier! Everything is ready to represent the City as a deputy in Congress. My mission will be to take care of the reintegration of Argentina into the world. I am proud to accompany you to the presidency.”

The political blow that provoked at both ends of the crack Milei’s triumph in the Simultaneous and Compulsory Open Primaries, forces the ruling party and Juntos por el Cambio to rethink the campaign to enter a ballot and the libertarian candidate to lower his proposals to the ground, make them tangible, given their chances of reaching Casa Rosada. In this context, in an eventual government of Milei, the one appointed at the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be Mondino. She herself assured this Thursday that “she would be an excellent chancellor.” “Argentina needs to return to the world, not only because we need to export to grow, but because at some point we were really relevant within geopolitics and we have been declining a lot,” he said.

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For the candidate for the Lower House, “we have been begging, giving pity” as a country, “when Argentina has everything to stand up by itself and play in the first leagues.” “At the very least we have to try to give confidence to the world, at least show that we respect our pacts,” he added.

Mondino with Javier Milei

In statements to Todo Noticias (TN), the woman from Córdoba analyzed the economic situation and referred to the dollarization project promoted by Milei. Asked about what value the North American currency would be set at if the exchange rate regime is modified, she pointed out that if the Central Bank allows exporters to sell their dollars “to whoever they want, between $340 and $700 I don’t know where the dollar would be; it even goes down if you have a trade surplus,” she speculated. “The dollar could go down, I’m not saying that’s what’s going to happen,” he clarified.

Nor did he give certainty about what the average salary of an employee would be in an Argentina with the dollarized economy: “It does not make sense to calculate how much a person would charge in dollars, because it will depend on how many dollars are in the economy going around.”

Mondino criticized the post- PASO devaluation and warned that if the Government “keeps the official dollar until the end,” it will be counterproductive because “it will be cheaper than now.” And he wondered what will happen the day after the general election.

For the candidate for national deputy, a new devaluation before the election cannot be avoided: “You cannot have an annualized rate of almost 200% and the dollar still.” “It’s an important misdiagnosis,” he criticized. Despite the crisis, he considered that it “does not make sense” that there is an “abrupt change” in Alberto Fernández’s Cabinet.

Mondino also defended Milei’s position of applying a more intense adjustment than the one proposed by the International Monetary Fund and assures that “it may be much better for the lives of Argentines.” “If you have a big problem but you are fixing it little by little, you never finish achieving the leap towards growth. If you make a faster adjustment, it is very likely that you can quickly overcome the problem and if you do not overcome it, at least you stopped having it,” he said without giving further foundations to his analysis.