The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, indicated this Tuesday that “an innocent person” was sentencedafter the sentence to six years in prison and disqualification from holding public office against the vice president, Cristina Fernández, was known.
“Today, in Argentina, an innocent person has been sentenced. Someone whom the powers that be tried to stigmatize through the media and persecuted through complacent judges who ride around in private jets and luxury mansions on weekends“, wrote the president in his account of the social network Twitter.
Fernández was alluding to the announcement he made this Monday that will ask the Justice to investigate businessmen, judges, prosecutors and former public officials for allegedly integrating a corruption plot.
(Also read: Cristina Kirchner, sentenced to 6 years in prison for corruption in Argentina).
The president denounced in his message that he condemns the also former president (2007-2015) “is the result of a trial in which the minimum forms of due process were not taken care of“, starting with” the principle of not judging the same fact twice. That has happened in this case,” added the president, who added that “the die was cast from the beginning and all it took was a mock trial.”
(Of interest: Cristina Kirchner: what comes now after the sentence to 6 years in prison?).
Fernández expressed his solidarity with the vice president “knowing that he is the victim of an absolutely unfair persecution.” “I know of her innocence. All good men and women who love democracy and the rule of law must stand by her side,” she concluded.
Today, in Argentina, an innocent person has been sentenced. Someone whom the powers that be tried to stigmatize through the media and persecuted through complacent judges who ride around in private jets and luxury mansions on weekends.
– Alberto Fernandez (@alferdez) December 6, 2022
The vice president was sentenced this Tuesday to 6 years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office in a trial for irregularities in the concession of road works during her two terms as president (2007-2015). The judges found her guilty of the crime of fraudulent administration of public funds, but she was acquitted of the charges for alleged illicit association.
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The sentence set for Fernández in the so-called “Road case” is less than the 12-year prison term that the Prosecutor’s Office had requested last August in the final arguments of this process. In that context, Cristina Fernández delivered a speech from her Senate officeshortly after the sentence was known, in which she announced that she will not be a “candidate for anything” in the 2023 elections.
EFE
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