After Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was sentenced to 6 months in prison for corruption charges, Andrés Manuel López Obrador said it was an act of political revenge and that in his case, if the opposition decides to do what Even when his government ends, you already know where he will be.
The president showed his solidarity with Fernández de Kirchner, believing that he cannot remain silent in the face of such an act, since the judicial court is run by the oligarchy and conservatism.
“It is clearly a political revenge against the vice-president of Argentina Cristina Fernández and it is also an undemocratic act, because they do not want her to participate in the electoral process, they disqualify her so that she cannot be a candidate, my fraternal hug, my solidarity and to all the Argentine people, we must continue to move forward, to resist,” he said.
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During his morning conference, the federal executive explained that this is a political question, similar to that of Lula in Brazil, because the right and conservatism have a lot of control and the media is still very powerful. .
Asked about the possibility of the Mexican opposition doing something similar once his term ends, López Obrador said he had nothing to be ashamed of and was used to facing his opponents.
“As for what can happen to me, they’ve already done it to me, I’m not ashamed and I’m used to facing my opponents, if they want to put me in jail when I’m done , they already know where I’m going to be,” he commented.
In this sense, he affirmed that one suffers and one suffers when one goes to prison for a problem of conscience, when a wrong has been done; but when you have a clear conscience, it doesn’t matter, “I would even say that prison sometimes protects”
“Here they are also preparing, I will be there, I will not leave, for what I will do when I retire, that is to read and write, you can also read and write in prison”, added López Obrador.
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