While social organizations rejected the persecution against her, the Federal Court of Appeal 2 sentenced the Senate chairperson to six years in prison and permanent removal from office.
This ruling corresponds to the so-called road cause for alleged irregularities in the awarding of 51 works in the province of Santa Cruz between 2003 and 2015, facts Fernández has denied and denied during three years of hearings.
As I said, in 2019 the verdict was written, the former head of state claimed and recalled that years ago Judge Julián Ercolini, who was in charge of the case, declared himself incompetent and referred the case to that territory, where it was dropped.
Mauricio Macri’s government (2015-2019) magically revived things and Ercolini brought them back. They are prosecuting me for fraudulent administration, but under the Constitution, the president is not responsible for the administration and execution of the budget, which is the responsibility of the chief of staff, Fernández explained.
Throughout the process we proved that I was not sanctioning any laws or administering anything. Congress is responsible for that. We have shown that none of the lies prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola told in their theatrical pleading were true, to the point that they could not when they had to replicate the facts, documents, expertise and testimonies, he added.
Fernández claimed that this was not a judgment of Magna Carta, administrative laws or the penal code, but that it originated in a semi-state system in which decisions about the life, heritage and liberty of Argentines were made and that this was the case was outside of the election results.
I spoke naively of lawfare, but it’s not prosecution, it’s a parallel state and a mafia, he claimed.
He also condemned the links of judges and prosecutors to Macri and the participation of Ercolini and other officials in a private trip paid for by Grupo Clarín.
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