“They could not with Dilma, nor with Lula”: Pope Francis condemns the “legal war” in Latin America

The supreme pope has also expressed concern about the reconfiguration of the far right.

In an interview with C5N, recorded before his hospitalization last Wednesday, Pope Francis shared some views on politics, criticizing, in particular, the so-called “legal war”, as judicial processes are known to begin in the political framework. motivated persecution. In the conversation broadcast on Friday, the pontiff mentioned some Latin American politicians who, in his opinion, have been affected by the practice.

“The media opens the way. “We have to prevent him from getting into such a situation” Then they beat him, “We started to beat him.” And they exclude him and suspect him of a crime,” Pope Francis summed up the essence of the term.

«Then the whole abstract is made, which are usually very large summaries, where it is not found, but to condemn it, the size of the summaries suffices. Where is the crime here? Well, yes, it seems so. This is how I condemn Lola.”

Dilma “Woman with Clean Hands”
Along with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Pope Francis also considered former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who had fallen in love with the practice, a victim of the “legal war”.

What happened to Dilma Rousseff? They couldn’t. A woman with clean hands, an excellent woman. They couldn’t, and with Lula, they put him in prison, and they couldn’t,” said the Pontiff.

According to Pope Francis, “With the smell of crime called ‘fumus delicti,’ sometimes the smoke of crime leads you into the fire of crime, and other times the smoke is lost because it has no foundation” and those who go this route, “use the smell and the smoke as reality and start the media to leave you the person.” ‘Sneak,’ and then it’s easier to move forward.”

Judges “chantapufi” and social justice
In this sense, the Pontiff admitted that “the judge always creates the jurisdiction”, because – he affirms – “his creativity also proceeds in this way”, although he believes that it must be a “jurisdiction consistent with the law”. “Because you find a judge who creates a completely opposite jurisdiction for you, he is Chantapovi as we say,” he said.

During the interview, Francisco also expressed concern about the “advancement of the far right”: “The far right is rebuilding itself. It is curious. Because it is attractive, not centrifugal. It does not create external possibilities for reform.”

The Holy Father said that the only antidote is “social justice, there is no other”. “If you want to argue with a politician, with an extreme right-wing thinker, talk about social justice. speaking horizontally.

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