The National Council of Business (CONEP) wants assurances that the public sector will assume the obligations imposed by an IMF package, saying that the private sector should not bear the full brunt of the measures alone. The business association?s president, Elena Viyella de Paliza, stated that there a lack of confidence in the economy without an IMF agreement, acknowledging that any recovery would entail a ?bitter recipe? for the economy. Viyella de Paliza said that a consensus was needed to calm public concerns, and she called on politicians to ?set an example? by declaring a truce: ?If only they would postpone their (election) caravans and rallies so that we could concentrate on recovering what we have lost.? She continued to say that no one should profit from the current crisis, in obvious reference to speculators in the currency exchange market.