The vice president insists the verdict has “already been written” after prosecutors demanded 12 years in prison for her for alleged corruption during her time at the head of the country
Argentina’s vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, said on Tuesday that “the verdict had already been written,” after the prosecutor’s office on Monday asked for a 12-year prison sentence and disqualification from holding public office in the United States. trial for alleged irregularities. in the assessment of public works when it was mandatory (2007-2015).
“The verdict was already written,” Cristina Fernández recalls, something she had already said in the investigative statement she issued in 2019, in a speech she broadcast this Tuesday through her social networks from her office in the Senate – of which she chairs. – when he asked that Justice deny his request to extend his preliminary statement at this stage of the trial.
The persecution of the former president exacerbates the crisis the country is experiencing, weighed down by galloping inflation. The government, which has undergone several reforms in recent weeks, has suffered several fractures in the Kirchnerist wing and Peronism. In fact, the president, Alberto Fernández, does not speak with his vice president, although he has called the trial of her “judicial and political prosecution”.
Cristina Fernández is charged with the alleged crime of illegal association and fraudulent management of public funds, due to alleged irregularities in the concession of 51 public works to companies of the businessman Lázaro Báez during his tenure between 2007 and 2015 and the late Néstor Kirchner (2003 – 2007) in the southern province of Santa Cruz.
“The prosecutors were able to read his script for nine days. I would have liked to speak in court,” Cristina Fernández said on Tuesday, later complaining that they had not allowed her to broadcast or broadcast the investigative statement in 2019 and that they now rejected the extension of her investigation.
“I wouldn’t be surprised because, as I said on that occasion, the verdict had already been written,” he said.
Accompanied by the chants of hundreds of followers gathered at the gates of Congress, the former president chronologically recounted the details of an investigation — known as “Causa Vialidad” — which, in her opinion, launched a “fierce political and media campaign” against him. based on alleged surcharges for the construction of «non-existent routes» in the southern province of Santa Cruz, the political cradle of Kirchnerism.
During her speech, the vice president argued that there was no evidence against her and that none of those called to testify at the trial supported the prosecution’s version, which she accused of “script” of the related media to have adopted the current political opposition.
Fernández, who in recent years has avoided preventive detention requests made against him in several cases – many of which he was fired from – thanks to the privileges protecting him, has always defended his innocence and claimed to be the target of a political persecution.
In the event that she is convicted, the 69-year-old vice president, who will enjoy privileges in principle until December 2023, has the right to appeal the verdict in the higher courts.
Source: La Verdad
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