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A week after leaving the presidency, Alberto Fernández He questioned the poverty measurement carried out by INDEC and stated that "If there were 40%, Argentina would be exploited . " At the same time, she once again marked differences with the way of doing politics. Cristina Kirchner distanced herself from the future leadership of Axel Kicillof and confirmed that next Sunday she will participate in the transfer of command ceremony with Javier Milei. The president has been conducting a series of interviews in recent days, in which he seeks to present his own vision of the management he has carried out since December . This Sunday he delivered a note to the Noticias Argentinas agency, in which he spoke about the high levels of poverty in Argentina - one of the biggest pending accounts of his presidency - and tried to relativize the official measurement by questioning the way in which the data is prepared.
I think poverty is poorly measured , said the president Armenia Mobile Number List when consulted by journalist Mayra García. And he added: «If there were that amount of poverty, Argentina would be exploited . "I cannot understand how it is reconciled that there is 40% poverty and at the same time we have had 37 consecutive months of registered job creation." He then pointed to the methodology used to define the index. «There is something that does not clarify to me and since poverty is finally measured through the Permanent Household Survey, it is a survey. What I fear is that people, as happens in political polls, do not tell the whole truth, because if you ask a person who has a family what income they have and they say 'I have a plan', from then on they start lying because they have afraid that they will take it away.
If in addition to the plan they have a job, they deny it, if in addition to the plan, they have a black job, they deny it, if his wife collects the AUH and the Alimentar Card, she denies it. Then the calculation starts to be very imprecise. «, He maintained. According to the latest data published by INDEC at the end of September, in the first half of poverty reached 40.1%. This figure breaks down into 38.7% in the first quarter of this year and 41.5% in the second quarter. The indigence results also rose because they went from 8.8% to 9.3%. The INDEC data are for 31 urban agglomerations, which total 29.4 million people. If these percentages are extended to the entire population (46.2 million), including the rural population, they are equivalent to almost 18,500,000 poor people, of which just over 4 million would be indigent because they lack income or cannot afford to buy food. . the essential.