the vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner He considered that “it is evident that there will be a sentence” against him in the Highway case, whose verdict will be announced this Tuesday, he reaffirmed that this sentence has been “written” since 2019 and said that, in that investigation, “all constitutional guarantees were violated.”
The head of the Senate expressed herself in these terms in an interview published on Monday by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo and that she shared from her networks. “It is evident that there is going to be a sentence,” said the former president, and warned: “The sentence was written on December 2, 2019, the first time I testified in this trial.”
For the Vice President, “all constitutional guarantees were violated” but also “everything that was said (in the case) was a lie.” Furthermore, she noted that a guilty verdict will be “a kind of gift for (Hector) Magnetto“, CEO of Grupo Clarín.
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— Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) December 5, 2022
In this sense, he mentioned some of the arguments that he presented both in his oral and public trial argument for the alleged direction of public works in Santa Cruz and when he pronounced his “last words” last Tuesday before the verdict, which he later accompanied with the dissemination of a document titled “the twenty lies of the Road Cause”.
The former president linked the violation of guarantees and procedures in the trial in which the verdict will be announced with the action of what she defines as “judicial party”an instrument used to stop the “wave of popular, national and democratic governments”.
According to Fernández de Kirchner, the “new instruments” for attack progressive and popular spaces in the region seek to achieve three objectives: “to control the popular will”, “protect” like-minded leaders and “discipline political leaders for whom anyone who has an idea of change, of defense of the national patrimony and of the most excluded sectors, think twice”, he pointed out.
He also considered striking the day on which the sentence will be read, which will take place this Tuesday, December 6.
“On the 6th they will hand down the sentence. On December 7 it will be published in the newspapers. That day, the ‘7D’was an emblem of our Government with the Media Law, which established that media owners who had too much media concentration should disinvest,” said the former president in the interview that she also shared on her social networks.
In this context, he added: “The cover of ‘Cristina Condenada’ and the 7D will coincide. It is a kind of gift for (Héctor) Magnetto,” he said, referring to the CEO of Grupo Clarín.
Likewise, the Vice President denounced that “The judges appointed by (former President Mauricio) Macri protect him and protect those who wanted to kill me, and they do not investigate anything that happened during his government.”
“It is impossible for democratic governments to be characterized as an illegal association. But also, a story of the image of a thief is built, of property crimes when, in reality, when I end as president, I have the assets for which I was investigated three times” , he reaffirmed.
Then he referred to the judge who investigated the case, Julián Ercolini, head of federal court 10.
“The judge who investigated this case (by Ercolini) is the same judge who had said that he could not be competent in these same crimes but, in another trial in which Néstor Kirchner and I had been charged with illicit enrichment, dismissed us both. And the assets, about which he investigated us, are the same that I had as of December 10, 2015,” he said.
She also explained that they are trying her for the same road works that were already investigated in San Cruz. “They are the exact same, 51 public works, that now he says that it is a crime here in this jurisdiction”he insisted.
In this context, he pointed out: “Ricardo Lorenzetti, when he was president of the Court, took a photo with Sergio Moro on one side and Claudio Bonadio, who was a judge who persecuted me and my family, on the other. Here is the ‘lawfare ‘ was faced from the pinnacle of power.”
“The court that I defined as a firing squad, the one that is investigating me, the president of the court is part of the same soccer team and they are friends with the prosecutor. This is proven,” he questioned.
When referring to his heritage, he was exhaustive and remarked that he had a “normal evolution”.
“When we came to the Presidency we were not poor. We had more than 23 properties of which we later sold some and bought others,” he reviewed.
In this context, he added: “When we arrived we had a three million dollar fixed-term certificate, more than three million dollars.”
At this point, he concluded: “We sold some of the twenty-odd properties we had and with those we sold we bought others, but I returned to the same house where I lived.”
In another part of the interview, the Vice President referred to the assassination attempt against him committed last September 1 and charged against macrismo and the Caputo family: “Those who are imprisoned were the material authors of the attack, but I believe that there are intellectual authors,” he remarked.
He recalled then that the members of the Federal Revolution “received financing of 17 million pesos from a carpentry that does not exist” and opined that “if this were the other way around, we would all be in prison.”
“They were all directly linked to the right-wing groups that they appeared financed by businessmen linked to macrismo, and that they were brothers of someone who was an official of macrismo, who was the one who put Argentina in debt,” he said.
“It is Caputo, businessmen linked to the brothers of whoever was a Macri official. And cousins of whoever was a very important businessman who was a friend of Macri’s soul,” he said.
Asked then what she thought of that plot, she replied: “That they want me imprisoned, or dead, that this is what is happening in the Argentine Republic.”
On the other hand, he questioned the agreement that the Government of Mauricio Macri signed with the IMF in 2018, when graphing that the then president “was lent anything violating the statutes” of the organization and “now they want to charge the country with having lent so much to the Argentine Republic.”
Later he told about his public vocation and promised that he would never stop intervening in Argentine politics.
“I liked politics when I was very young”he confided, and stated that “politics is not just holding a position. It is not just being president, vice president, senator, or deputy. It is being able to thread ideas. Transmit them. That there are people who receive them, who feel them,” continued his plot.
Finally, she stressed: “Being a leader is being able to look beyond and say ‘History goes that way, we have to do this.” I will never lose that. I can be President or a legislator, but I will never give up saying what I think we have to do to build a better country for our people”.
“Lula, the same ones who put him in prison later went looking for him”
Vice President Cristina Kirchner considered that the president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, “the same ones who put him in jail later went looking for him,” and compared his case with that of other Latin American leaders, assuring that “it is a phenomenon what happened to the judicial party in the entire region”.
The former president assured that “the same people who put him in prison later went looking for him and then they reviewed what they had done.”
Regarding the reasons for this fact, his hypothesis was that, “When they prevented Lula from being a candidate and possibly president and (Jair) Bolsonaro arrived, the consequences of a character like Bolsonaro did a lot of damage to Brazil and to many sectors of Brazilian life”.
For this reason, he said, “those who had insulted Lula and had dismissed Dilma (Rousseff) finally go all the way around and end up admitting that judge (Sergio) Moro had been absolutely impartial.”
“It is a phenomenon that happened with the judicial district throughout the region,” he analyzed, to later draw a parallel with what also happened “in Ecuador, with (former president) Rafael Correa.”
For the Vice President, “the judicial party replaced the military party in the region when the Berlin wall fell and the doctrines of military security and military dictatorships were not so well regarded to control the popular will”.
He also said that he observed a constant “way of stigmatizing popular governments” by saying that “they are thieves.”
“I have seen in these last elections how they said ‘we are not going to vote for Lula because he was in prison,'” he gave an example.
In this sense, he remarked that “this is the construction of common sense by not only the Judiciary but also the media, because judges cannot do what they do without the support of the media.”
Finally, he said that he had an exchange with Lula da Silva after he was elected. “We had a very good conversation about his view of what to do in Brazil,” he reviewed.
“It would be inappropriate for me to repeat a private conversation,” he clarified, but he said that he was “serene, very firm, very clear” and “very good.”
