Podemos sees a "judicial war" in the jail request for Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández

MADRID, 23 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The minister and general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has maintained this Tuesday that the request for twelve years in prison and perpetual disqualification made by the Argentine Prosecutor's Office against the country's vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, is one more example of the war "judicial and media" declared to the "progressive governments".

Belarra, who holds the portfolio of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 in the Government of Pedro Sánchez, has transferred through a message on Twitter the "support" of United We Can to Fernández de Kirchner, whom the Prosecutor's Office accuses of being responsible for an alleged illegal network to defraud the Argentine State through the concession of public works in Santa Cruz.

"The judicial and media war against progressive governments is a constant that we will always denounce. Because it is not against us, it endangers democracy itself. In Spain, Argentina or any democratic country. Our support from Podemos", has published the minister and leader of the purple formation.

For her part, the MEP and secretary of the international area of ​​Podemos, Idoia Villanueva, commented on the same social network that the process against the Argentine vice president is "full of inconsistencies and outrages."

According to Villanueva, this tax request represents a "media and judicial attack" against Fernández de Kirchner "and everything he represents in Argentina." "A new attack on democracy. It is the duty of the Democrats to denounce it, demand guarantees and justice," she pointed out.

The Argentine Prosecutor's Office has requested twelve years in prison and the perpetual disqualification of the vice president and former president of the country to hold public office.

The Argentine Public Ministry estimates at 5,231 million pesos (more than 39 million euros) the amount defrauded by a network that also includes the late husband of the vice president, Néstor Kirchner, and former officials such as former minister Julio de Vido, for whom They have asked for ten years in prison.

"Her status as president of the nation at the time of the events means that she has defrauded the State and its voters. She brought her personal interest over the public interest," prosecutor Diego Luciani said, according to the newspaper 'La Nación'.

Fernández de Kirchner is not present in this part of the process, since she has been exempted due to her current position, but from her Twitter profile she has announced by surprise that she has requested to testify again this Wednesday, given that the prosecutors, in her opinion , "they mounted in their accusation questions that had never been raised".

After the request for the sentence by the Prosecutor's Office, the president, Alberto Fernández, has said in a statement that "today is a very unpleasant day" for someone like him, with experience in Law, and has conveyed his "affection and solidarity to Fernandez.