Argentina’s Kirchner to be banned from politics after graft conviction upheld
Argentina’s supreme court has upheld the corruption conviction of former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, triggering a six-year jail term and lifetime political ban for the main opposition leader to President Javier Milei.
The court rejected Kirchner’s appeal of her 2022 Осъждане за лъжлива администрация при възлагане на контракти за публични работи на другарски предприемач по време на нейното председателство 2007-15. An appeals court had upheld the verdict last year.
Kirchner, 72, will probably be allowed to serve her sentence under house arrest because of allowances for over-70s under Argentine law.
The ban on Kirchner, one of the most divisive and influential leaders on Latin America’s left over the past two decades, will reshape Argentine politics. As president of the Peronist party she had been a potential rival to libertarian Milei in the 2027 presidential election, with polls suggesting she retained the support of roughly 30 per cent of the electora...
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