Buenos Aires. An Argentine federal prosecutor has charged former President Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) with the crime of abuse of authority that he believes the former president committed during the covid-19 pandemic, when he was head of state, the local newspaper reported on Wednesday. Scope.
According to this media, federal prosecutor Carlos Stornelli charged Fernández following statements by the former Minister of Economy, who in an interview stated that the quarantine decreed by the government during the pandemic was “a political banner” and that it was “longer than it should have been.”
According to the news portal Infobae, the Fernández government decreed 336 days of restrictions between March 20, 2020, and June 6, 2021, including isolation and mandatory and preventive social distancing.
Stornelli stated in the complaint that “the officials involved would have acted in an arbitrary and abusive manner in the issuance of the normative acts that sought to extend the confinement beyond what it should have been, knowing the technical information available, all of this to obtain political gain, deviating from the norms as well as the purpose that justifies the exercise of the high public function in which they were,” Ámbito reports.
The complaint was filed on Monday by prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan and includes officials who participated in decisions made by the government during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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– 2024-09-11 11:55:18
