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Decisive hours for Cristina Kirchner: Argentina awaits judicial decision amid mounting tension
Argentina faces a moment of heightened political tension as the country awaits a final decision from the Federal Oral Tribunal No. 2 (TOF2) on whether former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will be detained following the Supreme Court’s recent confirmation of her corruption conviction and lifetime ban from public office.
Argentina's Supreme Court Upholds Sentence: Former President Cristina Fernández Faces Jail Time
Argentina's Supreme Court has upheld a six-year prison sentence for former President Cristina Fernández on corruption charges. This decision disqualifies her from future political offices, intensifying political tensions. Her legal team plans to appeal to international human rights organizations while protests erupt in Buenos Aires.
The former Kirchnerist official received a six-year prison sentence for the crime of fraudulent administration to the detriment of the State. Like Cristina Kirchner, Lázaro Báez and the rest of the convicts, he had five working days since last Tuesday to appear before the Justice, to “make his detention effective.”
The sentence of former President Cristina Kirchner to six years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office was inserted, as in an abyss that attracts everything, into the fracture that divides much of Argentina. The different sectors of Peronism postponed their differences and denounced a political persecution against the main leader of the opposition to the government of Javier Milei, who had announced his candidacy in …
The ratification by the Argentine Supreme Court of the six-year prison sentence and perpetual political inability against the former Argentine president Cristina Fernández marks a milestone in the political and judicial history of that country. It is the first time that a democratically elected former trans-Andean ruler faces a prison sentence for corruption crimes. The ex-mandataria has already requested to serve the sentence at her home, a ben…
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