The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, recalled the suicide of former prosecutor Alberto Nisman, to refer to the current persecutor who is leading the corruption case against Cristina Fernández, for whom 12 years in prison and the disqualification for life of having charges of political representation.
The Argentine President, Alberto Fernández, defended this Wednesday the Argentine vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), by assuring that “she did not commit any crime”, after being prosecuted by prosecutor Diego Luciani.
In a television interview on the news channel TNAlberto Fernández said that “Cristina Fernández de Kirchner did not commit any of the crimes attributed to her.”
But in addition, the current president recalled the case of former prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who committed suicide in 2015, just before making a presentation on the support of Kirchnerism to cover up those responsible for the terrorist attack on a Jewish center in 1994 in Buenos Aires that caused 84 deaths.
“Nisman committed suicide, I hope that Luciani does not do something like that,” said the Argentine ruler.
“I would give the prosecutor Luciani some treatises on criminal law. I listened to him and what he said seemed to me to be an amazing legal weakness. As much as he shouts Justice or corruption, he said endless legal nonsense, ”he added.
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The vice president is accused of illicit association and fraudulent administration of public funds, due to alleged irregularities in the concession of 51 public works to firms belonging to businessman Lázaro Báez during her term and that of her husband, the late Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007). , in the province of Santa Cruz (Patagonia), the political cradle of Kirchnerism.
Last Monday, in his final argument, the prosecutor involved in the case, Diego Luciani, in addition to the request for 12 years in prison, requested that CFK be permanently disqualified from holding public office.
For his part, the head of state considered that there is a “lack of evidence” and called the trial “legal nonsense.”
“Beyond the lack of evidence that the prosecutor demonstrated, he started from an unusual premise that said that she, as president, could not not know what was happening,” said Alberto Fernández.
“In this case, Cristina Fernández has nothing to do with it, I have no doubt. Who is going to want to be president in Argentina if he is going to have to take responsibility for everything that happens under his government? he added.
Possible pardon for CFK
During the day on Wednesday, a former member of the Supreme Court of Justice, Eugenio Zaffaroni, requested a “presidential pardon” for the vice president in case she is convicted in the oral trial that she has been facing since May 2019 and whose sentence could be known at the end of this year.
Asked about this issue, the Argentine president said that “the one who does not want to think about a pardon is Cristina (Fernández) and the pardon is a hindrance that remained in the National Constitution, of the monarchy.”
“The pardon supposes the functioning of a Justice in a fully functioning republican system, and we have a selective justice, which is applied in favor of the powerful, where the de facto powers operate and influence and everyone knows them,” said Alberto Fernández.