“An innocent person has been sentenced,” said the president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, following learning of the sentence to 6 years in prison once morest the vice president and former president Cristina Kirchner for a case of corruption, who also received the support of the entire Trans-Andean Executive .
The Argentine Executive expressed this Tuesday its unanimous support for the vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, following knowing the sentence once morest him for a corruption case during the Kirchner governments (2003-2015).
After knowing the sentence once morest Cristina Kirchner, the president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, indicated that “an innocent person” was sentenced.
“Today, in Argentina, an innocent person has been sentenced. Someone whom the powers that be tried to stigmatize through the media and persecuted through complacent judges who ride in private planes and luxury mansions on weekends,” the president wrote on his Twitter account. .
Meanwhile, the Argentine Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, described, in a message posted on his Twitter account, as “unsustainable” the ruling once morest the former president (2007-2015).
“An unsustainable ruling that cuts the chain of responsibilities in search of political impact and with enormous legal precariousness… in days when the desire for a docile and rigged ruling class is starkly exposed,” wrote the former chief of staff for Cristina Kirchner (2008-2009) and presidential candidate in 2015.
For his part, the foreign minister, Santiago Cafiero, insisted on the idea expressed from the Kirchnerist environment that “the cause is a lie” and, for this reason, as the vice president also advanced in her address from the Senate, added that “the sentence It was already written.”
“Once once more justice operates to persecute and proscribe the compañera @CFKArgentina,” said the head of Foreign Relations.
The Minister of Social Development, Victoria Tolosa Paz, expressed her “strongest rejection” of the sentence and compared the figure of the vice president with that of the historic former president Juan Domingo Perón.
“Just as they wanted to ban Perón, now they ban Cristina. But -as many other times in history- they underestimate our people,” the politician wrote on her Twitter account, adding that “the Argentine opposition does not believe in the institutions of the Republic.”
The Minister of the Interior, Eduardo ‘Wado’ de Pedro, one of the closest to Cristina Kirchner in the Executive, published a message of support, in which he stressed: “An entire people defends you, the truth is on your side and the history backs you up Today is a scandal.”
The vice president 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 her two terms as president (2007-2015).
The judges found her guilty of the crime of administration fraudulent use of public funds, but she was acquitted of 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.
The oral court also ordered the confiscation of the effects of the crime, which consist of a sum of 84,835 million pesos (482 million dollars).