“I am not going to be a candidate for anything, neither for president, nor for senator. My name will not be on any ballot. I finish on December 10 and I return as I did on December 10, 2015 (when the Government of Mauricio Macri began), to my house, to the same house from which I left on May 25, 2003 to accompany what was my comrade”, the late Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007), said the former president.
Fernández offered a telematic appearance from his office in the Senate, minutes after the sentence was known, in which, after attributing his sentence to the “parastatal judicial mafia”, It concluded with the most unexpected political news, by getting off the electoral bandwagon for 2023, despite the expectation generated in recent months.
“I am not going to subject the political force that twice gave me the honor of being president and a vice president to be mistreated during the electoral period,” Fernández explained as motivation for not running for the 2023 elections and recalled that all charges against those who agreed in his political career were “always by popular vote.”
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Fernández said that, in addition to her two terms (2007-2015) and that of her late husband, Néstor Kirchner, she also contributed “to the 2019 victory when nobody gave two pesos for Peronism.”
“This is what they are charging me, and that is why they disqualify me,” said the former president.
Fernández 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 the Kirchner governments (2003-2015).
The judges found the vice president guilty crime of fraudulent administration of public funds, but they acquitted her in the charges for alleged illicit association.
The sentence arranged for Fernández in the so-called “Cause Road” It is less than the 12-year prison term that the Prosecutor’s Office had requested last August in the final arguments of this process.
The oral court also ordered the confiscation of the effects of the crime, which consist of a sum of 84,835 million pesos (482 million dollars).
The entrance Cristina Fernández: “I will not be a candidate for anything” was first published on newspaper TODAY.
