Peace. The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales He expressed his “repudiation and condemnation” against what he considered a “judicial coup” against the Argentine vice president, Cristina Fernández, sentenced to six years in prison for being found guilty of fraudulent administration of public funds in the concession of public works.
«Our most vehement repudiation and condemnation against the judicial and rigged coup that tries to truncate the political rights of our sister @CFKArgentina. After her failed assassination attempt, today they are trying to politically eliminate her. Strength sister Cristina. The fight continues! “Morales wrote on Twitter.
In a press conference, the Bolivian Minister of the Presidency, María Nela Prada, considered that it is “a totally unfair sentence” and trusted that “sooner or later the truth comes to light.”
Prada recalled that at the time, the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, warned of a “judicial persecution” to “politically ban sister Cristina Fernández.”
He also considered that processes such as the one carried out against Fernández “are ways that are sought to damage democracy when it is not at the service of the interests of small groups.”
The ties between Argentina and Bolivia come from the governments of Evo Morales (2006-2019) and Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and his wife and widow Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015) and now Luis Arce and the current Argentine President Alberto Fernandez.
Fernández was sentenced this Tuesday to six 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 her guilty of the crime of fraudulent administration of public funds, but they acquitted her on the charges for alleged illicit association.
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.
Cristina Fernández announced that she will appeal the ruling and blamed it on a “judicial mafia” and “a parastatal system” dominated by “economic and media power” that condemns her for her “commitment to the rights of the people.”
