'I don't give signals to the market, I provide rationality to society,' CFK

While attending the opening ceremony of a YPF hydrodesulfurization plant in Ensenada, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner assured that “she does not give signals to the market. I am the President, not a signal maker. A president is supposed to give signals of rationality.”

“A head of state is expected to send signs that can be understood and accepted by society as a whole,” she added. 

“Provinces are interested in having competitive energy prices, not having them pegged to external prices,” she continued.

“Should we be following the US or Europe? If what they are doing is wrong and what we’re doing is wrong, what should we do, then?” she said ironically. 

“Why don’t they tell us what they would do? Or even better, why don’t you tell Europe or the US what to do so they can help us indirectly?” she wondered.

The President opened a new YPF hydrodesulfurization plant in Ensenada, and she was joined there by the oil company’s CEO Miguel Galuccio, Planning Minister Julio De Vido and other government officials.