OPINION – A Time for Action

The economic performance data of the country, for the second quarter of the year, is shocking. As if there were no more, they are published two months late. And just a month ago we saw the MEF present a budget that projected a 9% fall in GDP in 2020. For this projection to be fulfilled, making a simple rule of three, the economy would have to grow at least 0.5% in the second half of the year compared to the same period in 2019. You don’t have to be an economist or genius to understand that this will not be the case. . The economic reopening started slowly and there are sectors that have not been able to open directly or have only done so partially. Even so, from the MEF there were no qualms about presenting a budget for 2021 higher than that of 2020. For many years, the country has walked – party after party -, governed by bureaucratic mediocrity, loading a state payroll that grows out of control and sweeping serious problems of justice, education, health, and pensions under the rug. How long will we continue to behave as if all this could continue without dire consequences? The time to act has come.- LA PRENSA Nov. 24