Buenos Aires.- Argentina’s President-elect Alberto Fernández and the future vice president, Cristina Fernández, celebrated the cessation of the “persecution” and “illegitimate deprivation of liberty” of former Brazilian member Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who left Friday in prison on Friday following a Supreme Court decision taken on Thursday.” It touches the strength of @LulaOficial to face this persecution (only that definition fits the arbitrary judicial process to which it was subjected). His fortitude demonstrates not only the commitment but the immensity of that man. Viva #LulaLivre!” wrote on Twitter the leader of the Peronist Front of All, who will take over the head of state on December 10.
The elected Argentine representative has repeatedly claimed Lula’s freedom and even went to visit him in prison last July, which generated the first frictions with the current Brazilian president, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro, who has already decided that he will not travel to Buenos Aires for his assumption.
It touches the strength of @LulaOficial to face this persecution (only that definition fits the arbitrary judicial process to which it was subjected). Your fortitude demonstrates not only the commitment but the immensity of that man, long #LulaLivre! pic.twitter.com/Y8hKAiJvWe — Alberto Fernández (@alferdez)
November 8, 2019
For her part, Cristina Fernández, who is in Cuba visiting her daughter Florencia Kirchner, who receives medical treatment there, also chose the social network to show her joy at the liberation of whoever ruled Brazil from 2003 to 2010, with whom she maintained a close relationship when the two were presidents. The senator, who is prosecuted in various cases for alleged corruption during her tenure, referred to the “lawfare”, a concept used to define the alleged legal war against opposition leaders.” Cease today one of the lawfare’s greatest aberrations in Latin America: the illegitimate deprivation of the freedom of the former President of the Federal Republic of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. #LulaLivre,” said the future vice president.
Cease today one of the lawfare’s greatest aberrations in Latin America: the illegitimate deprivation of the freedom of the former President of the Federal Republic of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. #LulaLivre pic.twitter.com/Hev11DAe50 — Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina)
November 8, 2019
The former president left on Friday the jail where he was serving a sentence for corruption for 1 year and 7 months, in the city of Curitiba (south), after on Thursday Brazil’s Supreme Court determined that the imprisonment of a convicted person before all appeals, as is the case, is unconstitutional.
The former president left the jail on Friday. / EFE.
“I needed to resist to fight against the rotten side of the state, the Federal Police, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, justice. They worked to criminalize the left, Lula and the Workers’ Party,” Lula, 74, said as he walked free in front of a crowd of supporters. Their release comes on the eve of a group of progressive Latin American leaders, among them his co-religionist the former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and the Uruguayan José Mujica meet in Buenos Aires at the second meeting of the Puebla Group, whose inaugural address will be given by Alberto Fernández.With the motto “Change is progressive”, a hotel in the center of the Argentine capital will host during Saturday and Sunday a meeting that arrives preceded by the one held last July in the Mexican city of Puebla, in the city of Puebla, in the group was constituted as “space for reflection and political exchange in Latin America”.
