Alonso Segura on Pedro Castillo’s first year of economic management: “This is a government without a clear north”

Former Economy Minister Alonso Segura confirmed this Friday that the first 12 months of President Pedro Castillo’s rule reflect a “government without a clear north” with unfavorable economic performance.

In an interview with a special program Everything is known from RPP news, Alonso Segura claimed it had been a “disappointing year” in economic matters, despite the fact that President Peter’s castle he began his term with a reopening recovery and with “impressively high” commodity prices.

“There, the challenge was how to restore confidence, given that expectations about the plans of the government, the various plans that he presented during the campaign, about the composition of his cabinets, about the various measures that he announced, created uncertainty. It is unfortunate that what we have seen during these first 12 months is a government with no clear direction, with a high turnover of ministers, only two in the economy, but in fact a president who does not listen to his economy ministers,” he said .

Alonso Segura He pointed out that there is a “bad” state of economic indicators and their weakening, as already suggested, since they are mainly dependent on temporary factors, reopening and statistical effects; or that they did not depend on us, that these were external prices.

“And external prices have fallen over the past six weeks and that will affect what we see going forward. We can talk about poverty, and the figures are very disappointing, about employment, especially in the informal sector. worried about the next few months,” he explained.

“Economically Disruptive Congress”

Alonso Segura He also explained that currently The Congress of the Republic, “very economically destructive” and “a government that has no north”, but which puts forward very distorting initiatives aimed at the pockets that support the government. In addition, he stressed the “paralysis” and “incompetence” of the mandate Peter’s castle.

“What we have seen is a president not listening to the economy secretary and a series of rulings coming from the executive branch or Congress where the executive branch is either not following or lowering opinion against it, which is another problem. The previous Congress is more or less than 12 months has been a terrible Congress economically, but this Congress is already surpassing it if we analyze the measures in terms of how much it distorts in terms of reforms and fiscal costs and the obvious unconstitutionality in the laws that were approved were economically devastating to Congress.” , – he said.

“Destruction of the labor market”

On the other hand, Alonso Segura He argued that labor measures, such as a supreme decree ending outsourcing or collective labor relations, would have an “extremely negative” impact because they are harmful. In addition, the former Minister of Economy assured that with this counter-reform, the Government “destroys the labor market.”

“You are cutting back on job creation opportunities. In addition, formal jobs are what you need in the country, which is a big problem for the Peruvian economy. So it will have an important impact. is another small problem. MJV ends up causing a problem in the distribution queue, but who ultimately influences it is MYPE who becomes more informal. And the informal worker is the one who pays the piper because he is a worker who does not have access to rights not trained, who cannot access any kind of employment that enhances their work skills so that they have more opportunities in the future,” he said.

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