The Supreme Court of Argentina has rejected the appeal presented by the President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015) and has firm the sentences six years in prison and perpetual disqualification To exercise public office. As reported by EFE, The conviction against her was issued in 2022 for irregularities in the concession of road works.
After this decision, unanimously adopted by the three Supreme Judges, Fernández de Kirchner could be stopped in the next few hours or days to serve the sentence. Fernández’s defense can ask that judge to grant the ex -president the benefit of house prison for being over 70 years, after having completed 72 last February.
“The sentences issued by the previous courts settled in the profuse evidence produced and in the Criminal Code sanctioned by the Congress, without being demonstrated in any way that the appealed decision does not constitute a reasoned derivation of the current law in force in accordance with the particular circumstances proven in the case, nor that during the process some constitutional guarantee has been violated,” they have sustained.
After the ruling, Fernández de Kirchner has addressed the followers who have moved to the headquarters of the PJ and He has accused the justice of imposing a “stocks on popular vote” and has branded the judges of “monigotes”while he reiterated that “the sentence was already written.”
“The truth is that this Argentina that governs Milei does not cease to surprise us, because to the stock of the salary they added the stocks to the popular vote. This triumvirate of unpresentable (…) of MONGOTHES responds to natural controls well above them: the economic power concentrated in Argentina,” said the former president.
Also, the former first lady He has called for militancy to “be with the people he needs” And he has warned that he will stay “the face and body”: “We are not mafia,” he said, while considering that “being prey is a certificate of dignity.”
The former president It was sentenced in 2022 by fraudulent administrationalthough it was not arrested due to the fueros that then had as vice president of the country and the pending review by the Criminal Cassation Chamber.
Then, in November 2024, Chamber IV of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation confirmed the conviction against Fernández, who appealed to the Supreme Court. Speaking on Monday at the headquarters of his party, on the eve of the judges’ decision, the ex -president defined the Supreme Court as “Praetorian Guard of Economic Power” and said that there are political characters who, having worked against the interests of the country, walk “free” through the streets, so, for her, “being prey is a certificate of dignity.”
Milei’s reaction: “Justice. End”
For its part, andThe current president of Argentina, Javier Milei, has held the ruling of the Supreme Court: “Justice. End. PD: The Republic works and all corrupt journalists, accomplices of liar politicians, have been exposed in their operettas about the alleged impunity pact,” the president published in his profile of the social network X, in reference to those who accused him of maintaining a pact with the ex -president.
