Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández denounced yesterday Friday the “lies, slander and defamation” in which she assured the Prosecutor’s Office, which last August requested 12 years in prison against her.
“I want to make a formal request to this court so that at the end of the hearings testimony is extracted from each and every one of the lies of the prosecutors contrasted with the documentary, expert and testimonial evidence that this trial had,” Fernández said before the Oral Court in Federal Criminal 2 of Buenos Aires, and added that this is “a clear case of prevarication (prevarication)”.
Via videoconference from his Senate office, Fernández testified in his own defense at the pleadings stage of the trial he faces for the alleged irregular award of public works during his term as president (2007-2015).
In his speech, Fernández congratulated his lawyers, who throughout this week made their allegations and demonstrated those “lies, slander and defamation”.
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Fernández is accused of illicit association and fraudulent administration of public funds due to alleged irregularities in the concession of 51 public works to firms belonging to businessman Lázaro Báez during her term and that of her husband, the late Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007), in the province of Santa Cruz, political cradle of Kirchnerism.
“To pull my hair out of this trial, they pulled the Constitution, the Criminal Code, the Civil Code, the law of administrative procedure, jurisprudence, logic, everything by the hair. It really is nonsense. This does not help, this complicates a country, makes it unserious, almost bordering on ridiculous”, he said.
That alleged “illicit association”, he stressed, “has neither head nor tail, but fundamentally it is profoundly unconstitutional, profoundly anti-republican and profoundly anti-federal”.
