The vice president published a text on her social networks in which she ratifies what she had said after being convicted of corruption in December. "It was not a hasty decision or a product of the moment, but a reasoned and thoughtful decision," he continued.

"I have shown, like no one, to privilege the collective project over personal location," he stressed in another section of the text. "Recent events have proved me right," he wrote in a text that he uploaded to his official website and shared on Twitter.