Argy President Calls For Talks
Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s has called for a dialogue with all business sectors and “on all issues” received a positive response from farmers and manufacturers, but they also requested “deep changes” following the government’s defeat on June 28th mid term election.
Eduardo Buzzi, head of the Argentine Agrarian Federation praised President Cristina Kirchner for the open invitation but also recalled that “the presidential Kirchner couple” are not naturally inclined to look for consensus.
“If it hadn’t been for the electoral defeat at the end of June, there’d be no invitation to dialogue”, underlined Buzzi one of the more high profile protesting farmers’ leaders who have been struggling with the Kirchner administration over export taxes for many months.
The whole thing is like a giant game of chess being played by a dozen different people all at the same time. Some concessions to the farmers' demands may have to be made, but these are likely to come too late to influence wheat plantings this year, that window has all but closed.
A reduction of the soybean tax is a possibility, but exactly how the Kirchner's plan to balance the books without all the revenue it generates it is unclear.
Eduardo Buzzi, head of the Argentine Agrarian Federation praised President Cristina Kirchner for the open invitation but also recalled that “the presidential Kirchner couple” are not naturally inclined to look for consensus.
“If it hadn’t been for the electoral defeat at the end of June, there’d be no invitation to dialogue”, underlined Buzzi one of the more high profile protesting farmers’ leaders who have been struggling with the Kirchner administration over export taxes for many months.
The whole thing is like a giant game of chess being played by a dozen different people all at the same time. Some concessions to the farmers' demands may have to be made, but these are likely to come too late to influence wheat plantings this year, that window has all but closed.
A reduction of the soybean tax is a possibility, but exactly how the Kirchner's plan to balance the books without all the revenue it generates it is unclear.