The IMF ensures that there is a “significant change” with Guillermo Lasso, President of Ecuador

Alejandro Werner, Director of the Occidental Hemisphere of the International Monetary Fund (EFE / Erik S. Lesser)
Alejandro Werner, Director of the Occidental Hemisphere of the International Monetary Fund (EFE / Erik S. Lesser)

The Director of the Occidental Hemisphere of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Alejandro Werner, insure these games that there is an “important hearing” with the President-elect of Ecuador, the Conservative Guillermo Lasso.

Werner announces in a press conference that the Fondo will be “expecting the election result” in Ecuador in the future his teams carried out the second technical revision of the presbytery for 6,500 million dollars to the Governor Salient of this country, Lenín Moreno.

“When the president’s team is on the list to interact with our teams, we clearly want to exchange points of view”, dijo sobre Lasso, quien el domingo pasade se convertió en el flamante president de Ecuador tras ganar las eleciones un un 52,3% de los voten, frente a Andrés Arauz, dolphin politico del ex jefe de Estado Rafael Correa.

“They know very well the program that is in operation with President Moreno because we have tenacious conversations with all the candidates and also with the presidential election team Lasso has tenant for many years”, detailed.

“It’s an important move that will allow us to basically work on a base”, aggregate.

In September of last year, the FMI Directorate approved the Governor of Moreno a price for the country to accrue to 6,500 million dollars to prevent the crisis provoked by the coronavirus pandemic.

Guillermo Lasso, President of Ecuador (REUTERS / Luisa Gonzalez)
Guillermo Lasso, President of Ecuador (REUTERS / Luisa Gonzalez)

Arauz has stated that, by virtue of its power, it has no intention of complying with the terms and conditions between the Fondo and Moreno.

The IMF, for its part, has publicly announced a revision of the regional economic forecasts, which include a 4.6% increase in the Latin American economy in this year in 2121, boosted by the recovery of the United States, the acceleration of the vacancy rate and the repertoire of sectoral sects.

During an interview with the chain CNN, Lasso announced that the first day of his Gobierno -at next May 24-, will present to the Congress a tributary reform with the aim of incentivizing the economy of the country.

“The reform will not tend to increase taxes. All contrary. “I have a tax on the sales of the micro-enterprises that we want to eliminate because we can have a tax on the rent, we have the sale”, comment Lasso.

In this sense, the flaming jefe of Estado will eliminate the 2% tribute on micro-business sales Asimismo, adelantó que Gradually eliminate the impact on the balance of divisions, during the four years that his term will last.

With the intention of reactivating the tourism sector, the leader of the Creation of Opportunities movement (Creo) says that plant the possibility that the IVA will last during four years of the year.

“We do not intend to create a tax return to increase actual taxes,” said Lasso, who also stated that the tax evasion will be fought: “I do not mean that there is an empress for 10 or 20 years and no Ghanaian money and no tax payment.”

Guillermo Lasso needs to help prevent economic crisis provoked by coronavirus pandemic (EFE / José Jácome)
Guillermo Lasso has to fight the economic crisis provoked by the coronavirus pandemic (EFE / José Jácome)

During the campaign, the Ecuadorian presidential candidate promised promising incentives, credits at 1% interest and a minimum wage increase up to $ 500. I also know that will create thousands of jobs and build 200,000 rural lives.

Lasso promised that it would propose new risk contracts shared with private companies in the petroleum sector with the aim of boosting crude production and respecting the contracts that are currently in operation.

Lasso, a conservator who promotes free trade, also remarked on the importance of Ecuador “is part of the Pacific Alliance, in the most urgent way possible”.

The new mandate will have to make do with a very hot economy due to the pandemic, but with problems that will come at a later date, such as the lack of liquidity and the need to create more sanitation during the coronavirus crisis. To do this, support that search “Since the beginning of a free trade agreement with the United States”.

Last year, Ecuador recorded a GDP growth of 7.8%. In addition, a public debt surplus of $ 63,000 million represents 63% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

With EFE information

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