“It is the result of a trial in which the minimum forms of due process were not taken care of,” added the Argentine president.
The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernandezindicated this Tuesday that “an innocent person” was sentenced, after the sentence of six years in prison and disqualification from holding public office against the vice president, Cristina Fernández, was known.
“Today, in Argentina, an innocent person has been sentenced. Someone whom the powers that be tried to stigmatize through mass media and persecuted through complacent judges who ride in private planes and luxury mansions on weekends,” the president wrote on his Twitter account.
Fernández was alluding to the announcement he made this Monday that will ask the Justice to investigate businessmen, judges, prosecutors and former public officials for allegedly integrating a corruption plot.
The president denounced in his message that he condemns the former president (2007-2015) “is the result of a trial in which the minimum forms were not taken care of of due process”, beginning with “the principle of not judging the same fact twice”.
“Once taught (Italian politician Francesco) Carrara that When politics gets into the courts, justice goes out the window. That has happened in this case,” added the president, who added that “the die was cast from the beginning and all it took was a mock trial.”
Fernández expressed his solidarity with the vice president “knowing that he is the victim of an absolutely unfair persecution.”
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 around in private jets and luxury mansions on weekends.
– Alberto Fernandez (@alferdez) December 6, 2022
“I know of your innocence. All good men and women who love democracy and the rule of law must stand by their side,” he concluded.
The vice president was sentenced this Tuesday to 6 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 fraudulent administration of public funds, but they acquitted her on the charges for alleged illicit association.
The penalty 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.
In this context, Cristina Fernández issued a speech from her Senate office, shortly after the ruling was made public, in which announced that she will not be “a candidate for anything” in the 2023 elections.