{"id":1236,"date":"2025-06-11T09:51:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T09:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/argentinas-top-court-upholds-fernandez-de-kirchners-prison-sentence\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T09:51:05","slug":"argentinas-top-court-upholds-fernandez-de-kirchners-prison-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/argentinas-top-court-upholds-fernandez-de-kirchners-prison-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina\u2019s top court upholds Fernandez de Kirchner\u2019s prison sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ruling makes her subject to arrest and bars her from running in upcoming Buenos Aires legislative elections.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Argentina\u2019s Supreme Court has upheld a six-year prison sentence on corruption charges for former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.<\/p>\n

The ruling on Tuesday, which permanently bars the divisive 72-year-old from public office and makes her subject to arrest, prompted crowds of her supporters to block the streets of Buenos Aires in protest.<\/p>\n

The left-wing former president denounced the ruling, claiming the court\u2019s judges were acting in the service of the economically powerful.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re three puppets answering to those ruling far above them,\u201d she told supporters outside her party\u2019s headquarters in Buenos Aires, in an apparent reference to the government of her rival, President Javier Milei.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the concentrated economic power of Argentina\u2019s government.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ruling was welcomed by Milei, a libertarian fiercely opposed to Fernandez de Kirchner\u2019s brand of high-spending politics, which critics blamed for years of economic volatility and soaring inflation.<\/p>\n

\u201cJustice. End,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n

\u2018Abundance of evidence\u2019<\/h2>\n

Fernandez de Kirchner, who succeeded her husband Nestor Kirchner as president in 2007 and remained in power until 2015, had been found guilty<\/a> by a federal court in 2022 of having directed irregular state public works<\/a> contracts to a friend during her and her husband\u2019s years in power.<\/p>\n

She claimed the conviction was politically motivated and appealed to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

But the judges rejected Fernandez de Kirchner\u2019s appeal, writing in a resolution that her sentence did \u201cnothing more than \u2026 protect our republican and democratic system\u201d, The Associated Press news agency reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sentences handed down by the previous courts were based on the abundance of evidence produced,\u201d the judges wrote, according to the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

The ruling makes her conviction and appeal definitive, and likely draws a line under her lengthy political career, just days after she launched her campaign for the Buenos Aires legislative elections in September.<\/p>\n

The former president has five days to turn herself in to authorities, although her lawyer has requested she be able to serve her sentence under house arrest due to her age, the AP reported.<\/p>\n

The threat of arrest mobilised the former president\u2019s supporters around her. Daniel Dragoni, a councillor from Buenos Aires, told AFP he was \u201cdestroyed\u201d by the ruling but promised that her left-wing political movement would \u201creturn, as always\u201d.<\/p>\n

But historian Sergio Berensztein told AFP he believed the calls for her release would be short-lived and have limited effect.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is not the Cristina of 2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Source: <\/p>\n

Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ruling makes her subject to arrest and bars her from running in upcoming Buenos Aires legislative elections. Argentina\u2019s Supreme Court has upheld a six-year prison sentence on corruption charges for former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The ruling on Tuesday, which permanently bars the divisive 72-year-old from public office and makes her subject to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}