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Buenos Aires.- Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) requested the Justice to serve the six-year prison sentence for the crime of fraudulent administration, ratified this Tuesday by the Supreme Court, at her home in the Constitución neighborhood, in Buenos Aires.
The request, which EFE had access to, was formally presented by the former president's lawyer, Alberto Beraldi, before the Oral Criminal Federal Court No. 2 - which in 2022 convicted Fernández for irregularities in the awarding of road works - and indicates that the proposed address is the one currently inhabited by the Peronist leader in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución.The order was known one day after the Supreme Court upheld the six-year prison sentence and perpetual disqualification from holding public office against Fernández, 72 years old. Argentine criminal law allows people over 70 years of age to access the benefit of house arrest, provided that certain conditions are met and it is authorized by the corresponding court. The court gave him this Tuesday a period of five business days to appear before the courts of Comodoro Py for his detention. In parallel, it requested the Ministry of National Security of Argentina to assign, within 24 hours, a dependency of the federal forces that meets the appropriate conditions to accommodate the convicted person, taking into account her age, former president status and the attempted assassination she suffered in 2022."That our client be authorized to serve the custodial sentence imposed in the case under the modality of house arrest," states the document submitted to the court. The dwelling is located on San José Street, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
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Regarding the sentence of perpetual disqualification from holding public office, which was also imposed on Fernández in the sentence handed down in 2022, the oral court ordered that the National Electoral Chamber be notified that the sentence has become final. Fernández had announced last week her intention to run as a candidate for provincial legislator in the elections to be held in September in the province of Buenos Aires, the largest electoral district in Argentina. The former president and current president of the Justicialist Party (PJ, Peronist) stated this Tuesday, after the Court's ruling was announced, that the Justice system has placed restrictions on the popular vote by preventing a political alternative when the model of the ultra-right-wing government of Javier Milei collapses.
