Argentine Vice President exercises her defence in Vialidad case

The vice president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, exercised her own defence in the trial of the Vialidad case before the Federal Oral Court 2, within the framework of her final argument, in which she analysed the reasons why she considers that the accusation of prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola violates the Constitution.

Fernández declared that this process against her is an invention staged to bring her to justice at any cost, and added that “since I am accused, but at the same time I am a lawyer, I can make use of this stage of the allegation, due to my character as professional, if she had not been a lawyer, she would have been defenceless”.

The vice president asserted that the accusations against her violated the National Constitution because they were based on “decrees approved by Parliament,” and affirmed that the actions of prosecutors and judges in this trial constitute “a clear case of prevarication.”

In addition, he asked the judges to “extract testimonies from each and every one of the facts where, confronting the prosecutor’s statements with the evidence in the case, whether expert, testimonial or documentary, it is shown that the prosecutors Luciani and Mola lied in the closing statement of accusation”.

Fernandez reiterated that “the prosecutors’ accusation violates the Constitution” because a government elected by the people “cannot be considered an illicit association.”