The PT expressed its support for Argentina’s vice president, Cristina Kirchner, who was sentenced yesterday to 6 years in prison for allegedly acting as “the head of a criminal organization to embezzle state funds”.
In a note, the party said there was “a clear character of political persecution” in the Buenos Aires Federal Court’s decision. According to the title, the event is “another typical civil case on our continent.”
Lawfare is a term used in the legal setting to refer to the use or manipulation of laws and legal procedures to combat and intimidate an opponent. The expression consists of a combination of the words “law” and “war”.
“The charge is unsustainable, even dismissed by a previous judge, but the case was reopened and tried by a new court after the mainstream media fueled the public opinion in favor of the conviction,” the PT said in a statement.
PT criticized Operation Lava Jato. In the memo signed by national executive chairman Gleisi Hoffmann and International Affairs Secretary Romenio Pereira, the PT also compared Kirchner’s conviction to the performance of Operation Lava Jato.
“We recently had the Lava-Jato issue in Brazil, a process whose sole purpose was to persecute our newly elected president, who is the country’s most popular figure, and try to eliminate him politically and socially,” he said. party, if he’s talking about Lula.
However, in the caption’s assessment, task force members failed, as did those in collusion to chase Cristina. [Kirchner]????????
source: Noticias
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