President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva provided solidarity on Wednesday to former president of Argentina Cristina Kirchner, whose conviction for fraud was maintained the day before by the country’s supreme court.
“I called today in the late afternoon to companion Cristina Kirchner (@cfkargentina) and expressed all my solidarity,” Lula said in an X post.
“I talked about the importance of staying firm in this difficult time. I noticed, with satisfaction, the serene and determined way Cristina faces this adverse situation and how determined to follow fighting,” added the president.
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Argentina’s Supreme Court maintained, on Tuesday, the sentence of former President Cristina Kirchner to six years in prison and lifetime prohibition of holding public positions for fraud, rejecting an appeal presented by the peronist leader.
In rejecting Kirchner’s appeal, Supreme Court judges maintained the conviction of a lower court of 2022 and confirmed the penalty imposed by the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation, which had given the culprit.
Lula even passed 580 days arrested, but was released and had his convictions annulled by the Supreme Federal Court (STF), either because the Court revised his position and decided to veto the arrest of convicts in the second instance, or because he concluded that the trials should not have occurred in Curitiba, and considered the then Judge Sergio Moro partial.
