The Supreme Court of Argentina ratified the sentence to six years in prison and the prohibition to exercise elective charges of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The former president between 2007 and 2015 and former Vice President (2019-2023) had been sentenced in two judicial instances within the framework of a Cause related to acts of corruption in public works During your government. Fernández de Kirchner and much of Peronism, the main opposition party today, have denounced an act of political persecution. Justice, they maintain, issued An opinion without evidence. Kirchnerism ensures that its leader faces an enclosure that led to jail to LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA EN BRAZIL. For being over 70 years Fernández de Kirchner is expected to meet at his home the penalty imposed.
The three ministers of the Supreme, Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz and Ricardo Lorenzetti voted in the same and foreseeable direction. The press media took for granted the sentence that reopens a deep crack in Argentine society. A sector celebrates and another sees the reissue of a history of persecutions to the Peronism that has two of its most lucuitous chapters in 1955 and 1976.
“I am a rifle who lives”Said the former president and related the judicial situation to the assassination attempt of September 1, 2022. Fernández de Kirchner anticipated the events on Monday night. “Some believe that they can defeat us or humiliate us with this. While walking on the street free of dust and straw those who twice in the country with the IMF (International Monetary Fund), the (negotiated) of the roads and the mail remain free, Believe me to be imprisoning is a certificate of dignity“.
The former president said that “The Judicial Party” He decides to publicize the opinion just a few days after he communicated his decision to present himself as a candidate for provincial deputy in the elections of September 7. “It was enough to announce it to unleash the demons. Because this (economic) model has expiration date.” Under the judicial pronouncement, Fernández de Kirchner will not be able to compete in the contest.
The supreme, she added, “It is the Praetorian Guard of Economic Power “ that “they are afraid and unbelievable that they can organize something in front of us.” He predicted that the ultra -rightist government Javier Milei “will fail because historically these projects always fail, and when they fail they want nothing to be organized that replaces him to put the enormous profits at risk.”
Impact on the country
President Javier Milei celebrated the novelty. “The Republic works,” said the capitalist anarch, who has just been acquitted of any responsibility in the scam with digital assets known as “cryptogate” by the anti -corruption office.
The Supreme Play has given a unifying cause to Peronismthat since the assumption of Milei was drifting and immersed in his internal complaints. The conviction caused chaos in transit and cuts of the main accesses to the capital. The General Labor Confederation (CGT), the main workers center, discusses the possibility of calling a general strike. “Democracy is in danger.” The social leader Juan recordois, friend of the extinct Pope Francis, said that “the definitive rupture of the constitutional order” has been launched. The arrest of Fernández de Kirchner is a “state of undercover site.”
Turning point
The conviction is for analysts a cutting point in Argentine history since at the end of 1983 it recovered its democratic institutions. The episode divides opinions intensely. A survey by the Casa Tres consultancy realizes that 97% of those who support the extreme right considers that Fernández de Kirchner is guilty. In a similar proportion, those who recognize the leadership of the former president consider her innocent.
“Is it free that Justice draws a competence candidate for well -founded criminal reasons? This happened and is happening in Brazil. It happened with Lula, which is why the entire cause of manipulations had to be reviewed by the judge (Sergio) Moro, who is the one who condemned him. It must be remembered for this particular case that the Moor himself ends up being, in an unimaginable clumsiness, appointed Minister of Justice of (Jair) Bolsonaro, who had benefited from Lula was not in the competition. Then it was discovered that he had manipulated the cause, and the judges of the Court who had condemned him to Lula had to apologize, “recalled Carlos Pagni, columnist of the newspaper ´La Nation`, and a frequently critical analyst from Fernández de Kirchner.” Cristina is giving him, as expected and how is it happening with all the judicialization of his public performance, An epic to the condemnation. He is giving an understandable explanation so that there is a justification for his behavior by those who follow it. It is not a message aimed at those who want to see her convicted, who consider that her arguments are delusional. No, he is talking to those who believe there is a proscription and militate in his cause. “
But the current event has other dimensions for pagni. “One is the sign that the Court gives not only towards Peronism, but to all policy. It is very likely that someone’s prison is being decided with a huge power, who was president of the Nation, vice president, senator for many years, president of the Senate Constitutional Affairs Commission. So, it is a message for anyone with power. And it is also a message for Milei: care, that here there is no president to save. “
