Cafiero and the UxP bloc demand proof of Argentina's decision to withdraw from the BRICS group

National MP Santiago Cafiero, accompanied by legislators from the Union for the Fatherland (UxP) bloc, submitted a request for reports to the national government “to explain and substantiate the decision of the Argentine Republic to withdraw from the BRICS, with economic damages.” They stated in a statement that this decision will harm regional economies by creating new disputes with our major trading partners.

The trade bloc consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which in turn invited new members to participate last year, including Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.

However, at the end of last December, President Javier Miley sent a message to world leaders specifying that Argentina would be part of it for the time being.

In addition to Cafiero, the head of the UxP bloc, German Martinez, has signed onto the project; Carlos Castanetto; Jorge Romero; Roberto Mirabella; Sabrina Silva Hilda Aguirre; Eduardo Valdes; Daniel Golan; Lorena Bockwick; Florence Carignano; Victoria Tolosa Paz; Ricardo Herrera; Karolina Yutrović and Michaela Moran.

In the request for reports, UxP requests “the provision of qualitative and quantitative data, taking into account the economic, political, strategic and cultural values ​​on which” the decision is based.

The government must also “provide details on whether an in-depth analysis has been carried out on the appropriateness of Argentina's withdrawal from the bloc,” a decision officially taken by presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni.

UxP lawmakers, with the former chancellor in particular, asked whether “the costs of exclusion from international financing by the New Development Bank were assessed, and whether the losses that Argentina’s exclusion from the BRICS countries in terms of cooperation could generate were taken into account.” And housing, food, the knowledge economy and agriculture, and if there will be more withdrawals of our country from other areas of international cooperation and exchange.”

At the same time, Cafiero stressed that “in a multipolar world, being part of the mechanism means joining a group of key countries for economic development that are also our main trading partners,” noting that the BRICS countries “represent a larger GDP than the G7.” . “.

“Therefore, in this request for reports lies the importance of determining whether Argentina will break with the integrationist tradition due to ideological biases or due to some other decision of the national government,” they wrote.

Likewise, the text emphasized that “it is necessary to inform the National Congress” of this matter because “the government’s decision not to join BRICS deprives Argentina of funding sources and of the given weight in its capacity for dialogue, dialogue and reaching an agreement.” “Discussion,” said the former chancellor.