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Mauricio Macri Quotes

born 1959 Argentina

Mauricio Macri (born February 8, 1959) is an Argentine engineer, who served as president of Argentina from 2015 to 2019 after defeating the Kirchnerist candidate Daniel Scioli in a run-off election. As President, he pursued neoliberal economic reforms which he lifted tariffs, currency controls, energy subsidies, and the Argentine peso's fixed exchange rate.

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This shows a different Argentina. There is a new generation in politics that wants to be part of the 21st century.

I can’t understand how people can say they [Maduro's Venezuela] are practising democracy — that’s not democracy.

Things cannot change in just seven months, but every day we improve a little bit more.

We want to be part of the world, part of the future, part of the solution.

If there were any alternative to increasing tariffs, I would have taken it, but there is not.

I understand that many of the decisions I have taken are not so easy for many people.

I promised to tell people the truth. I don’t believe in messianic leaderships but in teamwork.

My concern is making things work. It is what my people need.

It is not so easy to [rebalance] an economy after a decade of lies. They were taking Argentina towards the same kind of problems that Venezuela is facing now.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mauricio Macri (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.