Both President Alberto Fernández and other officials and legislators have expressed their solidarity with the Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and have denounced the political harassment of the Prosecutor’s Office.
The trial against the former president it has strictly political ends, according to the members of the Front for All, who question the true intentions of the authorities. In the last few hours, prosecutor Diego Luciani asked that Cristina Kirchner be sentenced to 12 years in prison and barred for life from holding public office.
On his social networks, Alberto Fernández issued a statement in which he repudiated the judicial persecution against Cristina Kirchner and expressed his solidarity. “I once again convey my deepest affection to 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 has taught Criminal Law for more than three decades”lament.
The president also attached an official statement from the Executive, in which the National Government condemns the judicial persecution against the vice presidentespecially after hearing the final argument and the request for punishment in the Road Case.
Meanwhile, the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo de Pedro, expressed on his Twitter account that the prosecutors’ allegations are not evidence. “Proofs, they don’t have any. This cause only has the objective of banning @CFKArgentina”wrote.
The last hearing was held
This Monday the last hearing of the nine established for the allegation of prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola in the trial for the alleged direction of public road works in Santa Cruz between 2003 and 2015 was held.
Cristina Kirchner It also ruled after hearing the request from the Public Ministry. “Given the lack of evidence in the oral trial and the statements of the witnesses who demolished Iguacel’s complaint; the prosecutors, in open violation of the principle of defense at trial, mounted issues in their accusation that had never been planned, ”he said on Twitter.
