“The national government condemns the judicial and media persecution against Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,” said the Argentine government, after the Prosecutor’s Office requested 12 years in prison against the former president for a corruption case.
The Government of Argentina condemned the “judicial persecution” of the country’s vice president, Cristina Fernández, for whom this Monday a prosecutor requested a sentence of 12 years in prison for alleged corruption.
“The national government condemns the judicial and media persecution against Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner that was expressed today, once again, in the final argument and request for punishment in the so-called ‘Roadway case,'” the Presidency said in a statement.
According to the Executive of Alberto Fernández, the “judicial persecution endorsed and promoted by different media, the abusive characterization of the figure of the illicit association and the imposition of preventive detention as an early penalty” they are “aspects that contradict the dogmatics of criminal law” in the rule of law.
“None of the acts attributed to the former president has been proven and all the accusations against her refer only to the role she exercised during that period, which pitifully degrades the most elementary principles of modern criminal law,” the statement said.
The Government He reiterated his “adherence to the constitutional principle of innocence and the full validity of the democratic functioning of Justice, the right to defense and equality before the law” and said that “he will continue to fight for a judicial reform that guarantees these values for everyone.” .
Likewise, expressed his “solidarity” with the vice president in the face of “this persecution and search for proscription that is part of similar attempts carried out against other popular leaders when Justice is placed at the service of factual powers.”
Personally, the president Alberto Fernandez He maintained that “it is a very unpleasant day” for someone who, like him, “has been raised in the family of a Judge, has been educated in the world of law and teaches Criminal Law for more than three decades” and reiterated his “most deep affection and solidarity” to the vice president.
This Monday, in his final argument in the trial that Cristina Fernández has been following since May 2019, prosecutor Diego Luciani asked the court to sentence the vice president to 12 years in prison and disqualify her in perpetuity from holding public office.
Fernández, 69, is being tried for the alleged crime of illicit association and fraudulent administration of public funds.
In the process, the alleged Irregularities in the concession of 51 public works to firms of businessman Lázaro Báez during the governments of the late Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) in the southern province of Santa Cruz.