interest rates up again. tonight with the context long time capitol hill correspondent, and now washington post live anchor leigh ann caldwell, and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. welcome to the programme. initial results for its self styled referendums, in four areas it occupies in ukraine, show people have voted overwhelmingly in favour ofjoining the russian federation. the process has been denounced as a sham by ukraine and its allies, who view the referendums as a stage managed forerunner to russian annexation which the ministry of defence here in the uk says president putin is likely to do within days. nearly four million people from the eastern regions of donetsk and luhansk, and the southern regions of kherson and zaporizhzhia, were asked to attend polling stations there s been allegations of intimidation, as election officials went house to house accompanied by armed guards. the votes serve a deadly serious purpose as they will be used by the
alternative and no room for discussion between shock treatment and gradualism. joining me now is andres abadia chief latam economist at pantheon macroeconomics. lovely to see you again. he is now formally in the job and has delivered his first initial speech. what will he do next? the speech was relatively light on detail but he says there will be a physical shop to the economy and that is important because we are at about 5% of gdp but the good news is he said that the shock or the adjustment would be on the state and not the private sector. there are also economic indicators that suggest more than 40% of the population live in poverty so when he will have a mammoth task to bring the economy back on track. will he dismantle the central bank and swap the peso for the us dollar which he did say he would do in his electioneering. that is the main question right now. so far we have seen since he was elected one month ago that he has been pragmatic, more pragmatic than expected
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