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Buenos Aires.- Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) stated this Friday that on June 18th she will appear before the Justice to begin serving her six-year prison sentence and permanent disqualification from holding public office, ratified last Tuesday by the Supreme Court.
"Next Wednesday, June 18th, I will appear in Comodoro Py (federal courts) to be in compliance, as I have always done," Fernández assured this Friday in a message on his social network X.
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In her message, the former head of state gave the reasons why she requested house arrest, something that, being over 70 years old, the Justice system may or may not grant her. "It's not about a privilege. On the contrary, it obeys strict personal security reasons," the former president assured. Fernández argued, on the one hand, that, by the mere fact of having been a mandatary, she is obliged to have lifetime custody: "It is mandatory and I cannot voluntarily withdraw from it". In turn, she elaborated on the attempted assassination that they tried to carry out against her on September 1, 2023: "The material authors of the act are known and are being judged, but the Judicial Party (partisan justice) has not wanted to advance regarding the intellectual authors and the economic support." Several Peronist leaders demanded this Thursday that Fernández be treated "with decorum" and that the Justice system not put on a "show of degradation", by denying her the benefit of house arrest. Argentina had another day marked by mobilizations and traffic blockades yesterday in some of the main access arteries to the city, against the judicial decision. In addition, a group of members of social, union, student, and political organizations held a camp-in in front of the Supreme Court of Justice headquarters. The court's ruling prevents Fernández from running as a candidate for legislator in the Buenos Aires province elections scheduled for September, in the run-up to the national parliamentary elections to be held in October. Fernández was found guilty in a trial for irregularities in the awarding of road works in the southern Argentine province of Santa Cruz between 2003 and 2015, during her two terms in office and that of her husband and predecessor, the deceased Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007).
