Belarra and Montero give their support to Kirchner and call his sentence after a "political trial" a "democratic outrage"

The purple formation has denounced "judicial and media persecution" against the Argentine vice president

MADRID, 7 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Podemos and the ministers of the purple formation, Ione Belarra and Irene Montero, have expressed their support for the Argentine vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and considers that the sentence of ten years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office for a crime of Corruption, within the framework of what is known as the 'Road case', is the culmination of a "judicial persecution".

The leader of the formation and holder of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, has transferred her support for Kirchner through a message on the networks, after a "political" trial armed by "the right and some corrupt judges", which has resulted in that sentence. "An absolute and intolerable violation of democracy", she has deepened.

For her part, Irene Montero has censured that "judicial and media warfare is the tool of the powerful to stop democratic advances." "They seek to discipline millions by destroying one. It will not work out for them, we are more. Vice President, dear Cristina, all with you", the Minister of Equality has transferred to the Argentine leader.

From the international area of ​​Podemos they have also denounced as a "constant" at present the "judicial and media persecution against popular leaders", who "cannot break at the polls is a constant of our time." "There is nothing more undemocratic. All our support from Podemos", he has also added on social networks.

"Judges who falsify bills from a bacchanalia with right-wing media executives at the foot of the Andes. Judges who play soccer with the prosecutor on a Macri farm. Corrupt judges. A coup justice. They did it with Lula. Now with Kirchner. Lawfare", has launched the spokesman for United We Can in Congress, Pablo Echenique.

His counterpart in the Madrid Assembly, Carolina Alonso, has affirmed that the 'lawfare' suffered by the president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, is repeated in Argentina in the case of Kirchner, with a "judicial power at the service of economic interests of the big corporations and partisans of the extreme right".

"No one is persecuting Macri, who left the country in ruins and with an unpayable debt," the leader of the purple formation has reproached.