In statements to Prensa Latina, Leire pointed out that the people must take to the streets to prevent the deputy president from being condemned, a victim of political, media and judicial persecution.
We cannot allow her to be imprisoned because it can happen to us too. There is no rule of law. Everything is a mess. We do not want justice that does not fulfill its role, she affirmed.
There is no proof to send Cristina to jail and, nevertheless, they want her to serve 12 years in prison. It’s incomprehensible. Everything that she gave to the poor, to grandparents, is something that is not forgotten, she added. Since the morning hours, supporters of the former head of state began to gather in front of the legislative headquarters, who decided to present her arguments in a live broadcast after being denied the possibility of defending herself in the trial.
The day before, during the last accusatory hearing of the Road Case, prosecutor Diego Luciani requested a 12-year prison sentence for Fernández and her perpetual disqualification for holding public office due to alleged irregularities in the awarding of 51 works in the province of Santa Cruz from 2003 to 2015.
The former president denounced the lack of evidence and violations committed in the process, for which she requested to expand her investigative statement, but the Federal Oral Court 2 rejected her request.
I listened to her speech. What impressed me the most was that she demonstrated the links between businessmen, officials and Mauricio Macri (former president). They don’t mention her at all. What illicit association are they talking about? There is no proof that incriminates her, Leire said.
The vice president denounced the obstruction of her defense and the holding of a trial against Peronism, the popular governments, and those who fight for memory, truth, justice, and citizen rights.
In Latin America there are no longer military parties, but there is a judicial one. Lawfare in Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil is to displace, stigmatize and annul popular mandates. In Argentina, they go one step further and protect those who actually steal from the country, she said.
Likewise, she indicated that the period they ask for in prison is for the 12-year mandate of Néstor Kirchner and her (2003-2015), “the best governments that Argentina had in recent decades.”
That is why they are going to stigmatize and condemn me, but if I were born 20 times, 20 times I would do the same thing. I am very concerned that they try to discipline the political leadership so that no one is encouraged to do the same, she said.
I made the decision to recover the heritage of the Argentines and they will not forgive me for that, but I do not regret it. I know my sentence is written. It is necessary for those of us who believe in the possibility of changing something to reflect on the things that are happening, she pointed out.
Likewise, she warned: “They are not coming for me, but for you (citizens), for the rights of workers and retirees”.
She later thanked those who went to accompany her “for the love of always.”
On the outskirts of Congress, slogans against lawfare and persecution are still heard.
If they touch us Cristina, what a quilombo (mess) this is going to be!, protesters sang.
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