Roxana Badaloni
01/15/2021 11:47 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 01/15/2021 11:47 PM
More than
500 political, business and social leaders of Mendoza
signed a public statement
against the requests for amnesty or pardon
to former vice president Amado Boudou arising from Kirchnerism.
Mendoza, the province that was the genesis of the denunciation of the Ciccone case that led to the conviction of Cristina Kirchner's vice president, calls for
"effective imprisonment"
of who they consider
"a criminal charged, prosecuted, tried and convicted in all judicial instances."
The letter was released on Friday night and is signed by legislators, officials and mayors that make up Cambia Mendoza, the coalition that governs Mendoza and that make up the UCR, the PRO, Democrats and other center-left forces.
Among the first signatories are the former governor and president of the UCR, Alfredo Cornejo;
the current deputy governor Mario Abed and the PRO deputy, Omar De Marchi.
There are also artists such as the folklorist
Pocho Sosa
, the choreographer
Jovita Kemelmajer
, the businessman
Rodolfo Vargas Arizu
and the Mendo Exit (separatist current)
militant Hugo Laricchia
.
Titled
"Effective imprisonment for Amado Boudou"
, the letter asks for respect for Justice that "does not persecute people for their political belongings."
It is a response to the one requested last Sunday published in official media.
There, with criticism of the media, justice and macroism, a group of leaders and referents of the toughest sectors of Kirchnerism came out to ask for the "freedom of Amado Boudou", who has a
firm sentence of five years and ten months for the Ciccone case.
The mansion with a swimming pool in Avellaneda where Amado Boudou is serving house arrest.
Now it is a group of people from Mendoza asking to be heard: "In Argentina today there are no political prisoners.
There are political prisoners and among them is Amado Boudou,
" the statement starts.
And it qualifies the former vice president as "a criminal accused, prosecuted, tried and
convicted in all judicial instances,
counting in all of them with the right of defense in accordance with the provisions of current criminal legislation."
In a paragraph, the long judicial battle that these corruption causes have had stands out: "The Argentine Justice does not persecute people for their political membership. There is no war, except the fight against crime as ordered by our Judicial Power the Constitution National ", say the Mendoza signatories.
And they present themselves as "citizens of a province in which
two former Kirchnerist mayors
(Luis Lobos, from Guaymallén, and Sergio Salgado, from Santa Rosa)
are convicted of criminals
without anyone treating them as 'politically persecuted' or signing requests from them. your favor. "
Showing off the institutionality of a province that does not have the governor re-election and allows political alternation in its governments, they say: "We are not used to idolizing criminals and we do not want them to enjoy any privilege:
to serve their sentence in a prison and not in a mansion. "
With the warning of the social crisis that the possibility of an amnesty or pardon for Boudou would mean, he affirms: "Boudou's claimed freedom
would put the coexistence among Argentines at risk."
And he closes: "The fight against politicized justice to favor one faction or harm another is a commitment of honor for those of us who
want a democratic, free and just Argentina,
with legitimate laws interpreted with absolute autonomy from the political powers."
Below, the full text of the public letter and the signatories:
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Correspondent in Mendoza.
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