Carlos Beraldi, lawyer for Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in the case of redirection of public works, known as “roads”, he requested the acquittal of his client.
His argument lasted three hours and included a direct response to the final sentence of prosecutor Diego Luciani. The sentence in question of the prosecutor was: “We are convinced that we have reached the truth and now it is up to each of the judges, whom society is looking at. Judges, this is the moment: it is corruption or justice. And you have the decision.” The defender’s response Fernandez was: “It is not corruption or justice, there is only one way: justice.”
In the words of the vice president: “Until September 1, I thought it was just stigmatizing me, slandering me, but from then on I realized that there may be one more thing. It is as if the judicial sphere gives itself a social license so that anyone can think about doing anything”.
The president would be looking for a “Per Saltum”, a tool by which the top of the judiciary, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, gives a prompt response to any problem that puts life at risk of the Argentines.
In this way, once the case has been ruled by the competent court of first instance, if the file is institutionally serious, the parties that appeal can, if required, take the case directly to the Supreme Court without going through the second instance. .
Previously in the road cause
Prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola requested that the vice president be sentenced to 12 years in prison and lifelong disqualification from holding public office.
To these statements, the president replied that this legal process is part of neither more nor less than “lawfare”, which consists of urging the judiciary and the opposition media of a nation, from different levels of power, to put a key political figure behind bars. According to the former president, both she and, for example, the former president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, are victims of this tactic.
