The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, has expressed solidarity with his vice president Cristina Fernández Kirchner, after the ruling of an Argentine court that sentenced him to six years in prison on Tuesday and perpetual disqualification from holding public office for the ‘Road case’.
"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"has criticized the Argentine president.
Thus, the leader of the country, who has shown his "solidarity with Cristina Fernández knowing that is the victim of an absolutely unfair persecution"has denounced that the conviction "is the result of a trial in which the minimum forms of due process were not taken care of"process in the even "the principle of not judging the same fact twice was violated".
In this sense, Alberto Fernández has argued that, in this case, "politics has gone to court". With this, "justice goes out the window"has lashed out, through a series of messages posted on his Twitter account.
Alsothe president has urged the population to side with Kirchner "for his innocence". "All good men and women who love democracy and the rule of law must stand by their side".
Fernández had been accused of participating in a plot to defraud the State through the concession of public works in the province of Santa Cruz during her tenure as president (2007-2015) and that of the former president and her deceased husband, Néstor Kirchner (2003 -2007).
Fernández reacted immediately after the sentence, denouncing being the victim of a "parallel state" and of "a judicial mafia" and has remarked that when she was president of Argentina she had neither "management of the laws that are approved" in the Legislative "does not manage the budget".
In his extensive response, Fernández has indicated that "the real sentence is not prison"otherwise "perpetual disqualification from holding public office" and has announced that will not stand in the 2023 elections. "They condemn a model of economic development and recognition of the rights of the people"has said.
