President Alberto Fernández and the vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner They maintained a telephone contact on Monday after the request of the prosecutor Diego Luciani for the former president to be sentenced to 12 years in prison and life disqualification from holding public office in the case for alleged direction of public road works in Santa Cruz, official sources reported.
“The talk was after the prosecutor’s statement, they talked about the situation, shared opinions and agreed to see each other soon,” the sources indicated, and reported that the conversation was “very affectionate, as always.”
As soon as the prosecutor’s request was known, shortly before 5:30 p.m., Fernández had conveyed his “deepest affection and solidarity” towards the Vice President.
Today is a very unpleasant day for someone who, like me, 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. I once again convey my deepest affection and solidarity to the Vice President @CFKArgentina. pic.twitter.com/cOMH2iKjnK
– Alberto Fernández (@alferdez) August 22, 2022
“Today is a very unpleasant day for someone who, like me, has been raised in the family of a judge, has been educated in the world of law and has been teaching criminal law for more than three decades,” Fernández wrote on his Twitter account. , adding: “I re-broadcast my deepest affection and solidarity to Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner“.
And an official statement from the Executive highlighted that “the National Government condemns the judicial and media persecution against the vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner that was expressed today, once again, in the final argument and request for punishment in the so-called Road Cause “.
If something was missing to confirm that I am not before a court of the Constitution, but before a media-judicial firing squad, it is to prevent me from exercising the right of defense before questions…
– Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) August 22, 2022
The head of state had already made known his opinion on the ‘Vialidad’ trial on July 19, after the Vice President said that his sentence in the case “was already written.”
On that occasion, Fernández criticized the handling of justice carried out during the administration of Mauricio Macripointed against the judges of the Supreme Court and against the members of the court that today judges who was his running mate.
“The Vice President has affirmed that in a case in which she is being prosecuted and in which the prosecutor has not yet formulated his accusation, her sentence is already written. That affirmation puts in crisis the objectivity of the justice system and the moral suitability of the members of the court”, had indicated the President
