The leader of La Cámpora, Máximo Kirchner, has once again escalated the tension with the Governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, by mocking him for dedicating a column to a “theoretical discussion” in a national publication about Adam Smith, one of the fathers of classical economics. “So, ‘Cristina is the past,’ but Adam Smith, who is 150 years old, is the present? Where is the efficiency? Because we don't see it. Enough, enough seriously because it doesn't add up,” criticized the national deputy for Unión por la Patria. “If someone thinks that the quality of life of our people can be improved by asking for permission from the same people who put Cristina in jail… is that equation possible?” Kirchner asked during the presentation of the book “Proscripta and sublevada: Ardient chronicles of an indomitable Argentina” by Cynthia Ottaviano and Roberto Caballero. In his opinion column published in the Clarín newspaper, Kicillof stated that Adam Smith was a liberal but never a libertarian because he never renounced the role of the State, and pointed out that despite the recent praise from Javier Milei, the president and an exponent of classical economics, he has always admired libertarian economists from the Austrian school who discredited the great 18th-century theorist. During his speech at the book presentation, Máximo Kirchner also referred to the “inefficiency” of the government in improving the lives of Argentines, and spoke of the “unjust” imprisonment of Cristina Kirchner and the debt that deepens the country's economic crisis. “What is the efficiency of the current president in improving the quality of life for his people? Because today you know that all of that goes to paying the debt,” he stated. “May the communes, municipalities, and provinces of our beloved homeland receive a share of what they produce!” Argentina, which has its internal consumption destroyed and yet maintains more than 2.5 points of inflation per month,” he described. Regarding the debate on “federalism,” a concept that for Kirchner is sometimes used as a pretext for each governor to disengage from national interests to impose a “petty provincialism,” the La Cámpora leader proposed redistributing soybean withholdings among the provinces. “Wouldn't it be more federal, wouldn't it be good for all of us to work together so that, for example, soybean withholdings are redistributed among the Argentine provinces? Look what a great idea to federalize our country! What is the efficiency of Mr. Toto Caputo?” “I think the theoretical debate among economists in the country about who Adam Smith is is very nice. What is the efficiency of the Chief of Staff (Manuel Adorni)? I think it's great, but come on!,” he concluded.
