In an interview with Radio CNN Argentina On Monday morning (22), Lucía Salinas, a journalist specializing in legal matters, spoke about the request for the conviction of the country’s vice president, Cristina Kirchner, which should be made this afternoon by prosecutor Diego Luciani.
Kirchner is investigated for allegedly favoring a businessman in public works in the province of Santa Cruz, in southern Argentina.
“Institutionally, it is an emblematic fact because we will hear a condemnation of a vice president in power”, said Salinas.
“Lazaro Baez [empresário argentino] and José López [ex-secretário de obras de Cristina Kirchner] they were already out of public office when they were sentenced; in the case of Menem [presidente entre 1989 e 1999] he also left power when he was sentenced,” he said.
For Salinas, Kirchner “faces a tough request for conviction for corruption and this is a first element at the institutional level”. The journalist also drew attention to the speed of processing the complaint.
“These judgments [de Lázaro Báez, Jóse López e Carlos Menem] took between 10 and 14 years, were unjustifiably prolonged. In this case, after 3 years of conclusion, we already see the complaints”, he pointed out.
Regarding the request for impeachment made by the vice president against the main prosecutor in the case, Salinas assured that “when Luciani had to respond to Kirchner’s impeachment, not only did he make his career known, but he recalled that he came to the position through Gils Carbó , by agreement of the Senate”.
*With information from Rádio CNN Argentina, Marcelo Longobardi, Ingrid Oliveira and Mariana Catacci
Source: CNN Brasil
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