The Supreme Court has confirmed on Tuesday the sentence to six years in prison and perpetual disqualification to hold public office against the former president of Argentina Cristina Fernández Kirchner (2007-2015) for corruption, rejecting the last possible resort, within the framework of the known as ‘road cause’.
The three Judges of the High Court-Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz and Ricardo Lorenzetti-have voted unanimously and have firm the ruling of a lower court. Thus, the current leader of the Justicialist Party (PJ), which is the strongest figure of the opposition to the government of Javier Milei, is out of the electoral career in the September legislative.
Milei celebrates it
The Argentine President, Javier Milei, held on Tuesday the ruling of the Supreme Court that ratified the conviction to former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) to six years in prison and perpetual disqualification to exercise public office, and said that “justice was done.”
“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.
This Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Argentina rejected the appeal filed by Fernández and left the sentence issued against her in 2022 for irregularities in the granting of road works, so the ex -president could be arrested in the next hours or days to serve the sentence.
