In his opinion, the crime was configured based on Decree 54/2009, which gave the discretion of funds to the National Highway Directorate for the execution of road works, which were used to pay for the works tendered by Lázaro Báez.
At the same time that they maintained that the benefits to that businessman “had as their final destination, in part, the family businesses of the former president”; although that issue was settled in the Cause Hotesur-Los Sauces for which Cristina Kirchner was dismissed.
In relation to another of the foundations of the sentence, the relationship between the Executive Power and the businessman Báez, after having acquitted the then Minister of Planning July of Vido -together with the former undersecretary of Public Works Abel Fatala, the former head of Provincial Roads of Santa Cruz Héctor Garro, and the former undersecretary of Coordination of Federal Public Works Carlos Santiago Kirchner-, the Court ruled that Cristina Kirchner maintained a direct relationship through the former Secretary of Public Works, Jose Lopez.
Although the vice president had assured that she had never exchanged messages with López, the magistrates argued that the former secretary’s chats had conversations with the then secretaries of Cristina Kirchner: Mariano Cabral and Diego Bermúdez.
In this framework, it will surely be the vice president who, after reading the extensive writing, will express her interpretation of the foundations of the TOF 2 tomorrow during an act at the University of Río Negro. However, this Thursday different political leaders spoke out about it.
“The judicial mafia wants to outlaw her, the Argentine people will not allow it. To take care of Argentina, we are going forward with Cristina,” said the mayor of Quilmes, Mayra Mendoza; in line with the head of the Buenos Aires Cultural Institute, florence saintout: “A ruling written a long time ago. Only the organization will lift the ban. If the people want, Cristina can. CFK banned for making us so happy. Fight and come back.”
For his part, the current Minister of Public Works, Gabriel Katopodis He expressed: “Behind the persecution of Cristina Kirchner there is another sentence that is to bury the 12 years of the project that she led with Néstor and cover up what that symbolizes. What they want is to screw up our lives. We have to defend Cristina and something bigger. “
“In the ruling published today, there is a lot of paper and a lot of ink to prove just one thing: that they want to ban Cristina Kirchner from Argentine politics,” the trade unionist described. Hugo Yasky. While the head of the national lower house, Cecilia Moreau he chose the brief message “We embrace you today and always dear Cristina Kirchner”, in one of the few individual references by leaders of the Renewal Front.
While the National Justicialista Party published a statement in which it stated that “the content of the ruling once again reveals the lack of guarantees, the breach of due process and the violation of fundamental human rights established in the National Constitution””
On the opposition side, the radical deputy mario black He posted: “84.835 million pesos. Justice or corruption”, in reference to the amount in which the State would have been defrauded, although the same ruling does not indicate how that calculation was made. “Sentenced by the Argentine Justice, not proscribed, added her colleague Fernando Iglesias.
While, Jose Luis Espertfrom Avanza Libertad, expressed: “Cristina, Vice President of the Argentines and a jerk. A shame that speaks worse of us as a society than of her.”
However, unlike other opportunities, up to now few opposition leaders have expressed their opinion in relation to the judicial future of the vice president.
