As the Lower House is set to pass the new debt swap bill, cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich highlighted the broad support Argentina received at the United Nation’s General Assembly for the establishment of a multilateral legal framework for sovereign debt restructuring processes, and urged opposition lawmakers to show the same support for the government. “If 124 countries in the UN backed Argentina, it means Argentina’s claims are right,” he stated.
“To opposition lawmakers that have to decide with their votes today, (I ask them) to vote for the country,” the chief of ministers said in his daily press briefing at government house.
Capitanich spoke about the big victory the government scored at the UN yesterday. “If we have such an unequivocal support abroad, why can’t we have the same support from opposition lawmakers?,” he asked rhetorically.
The kirchnerite official stressed that debt payment is a “state policy” and he said that “many opposition lawmakers who now vote against this bill were once part of ruinous governments.”
“They (opposition lawmakers) all say they are against (US Judge Thomas) Griesa’s ruling, that it is hideous, but that we have to pay. That is a contradiction in itself,” the official said.
He called for the end of “double standards” among both local opposition leaders and world leaders, and pointed out that the 11 countries that voted against the UN’s resolution yesterday “are the same countries that say one thing and do the opposite.”
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