The vice president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, has affirmed this Tuesday that she has never resigned nor has she excluded herself from being a candidate for the 2023 presidential elections, but that it was a «proscription» derived from the ruling against her for her alleged participation in a scheme to defraud the State.
«They started talking about ‘Cristina’s resignation’ or ‘Cristina’s self-exclusion’. The only resignation that Peronism had was that of Eva Perón. And there is no self-exclusion either. Neither resignation nor self-exclusion: proscription», said the former President during the inauguration of the Diego Armando Maradona sports center in the province of Buenos Aires, as reported by Télam.
In this sense, Fernández said that the «proscription strategy» attributed to her by the Judiciary «is not new», but that «they began to devise it the day after that December 9 – her last day in office in 2015 – when we said goodbye in the Plaza (De Mayo) and sang ‘We will return'».
Regarding the Vialidad case, for which she has been sentenced to six years in prison for the alleged irregular concession of public works in the province of Santa Cruz, the former president has assured that they put together a trial «with an almost surgical electoral chronology».
«After an armed trial of three years, they decided that the oral trial in which they were going to sit me in the dock was on May 21, 2019 (…) 15 days exactly before the closing of the electoral deadlines to assemble the electoral fronts where the presidency of the Nation would be disputed», has brought to the present the now vice president of Argentina, as collected by the aforementioned agency.
For this reason, Fernandez stressed the need for «a serious arbiter so that we are all equal before the law».
«That 40 years after the recovery of that democracy we see that democracy with a parallel State, captured by the mafias, is not fair for those who suffered the consequences of the dictatorship or for the millions of Argentines who continue to believe that democracy is the best way to live among us», she said.
For this reason, the former president called on Argentines to come out on March 24, the Day of Memory, Truth and Justice, to mobilize «under a slogan: Argentina and democracy without mafias». «We Argentines deserve it», he remarked.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)