Argentine right wing resumes judicial lawfare to disqualify Cristina Fernández

Published at: 15/05/2025 09:31 PM

After the Argentine Senate collapsed the “Clean Record” bill, that country's right wing has not given up on politically disabling former Peronist president and leader Cristina Fernández de Kircher, and they appealed to lawfare to achieve that purpose.

To do so as it happens, this Thursday, May 15, the prosecutor before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Eduardo Casal, asked to review the cause known as Roads, modify its verdict and sentence the former president to 12 years in prison, the Telesur website reported.

When presenting a ruling before the highest court, Casal asked that the acquittal of the leader of the Justicialist Party for illegal association be revoked and that she also be convicted of this crime, which would double her prison sentence from six to 12 years. His request supports the prosecutor's appeal to Cassation, Mario Villar, which involves a similar purpose.

Fernández was sentenced to six years in prison and life disqualification from public office for the crime of fraudulent administration, an issue that was never properly proven.

In her defense, she pointed out that she was convicted of a crime that she could never have committed as President of Argentina because, among other things, the road works cited by the Public Prosecutor's Office were approved within the national budgets by the federal Congress and not by hand or in a personal capacity.

He added that all the works were tendered, executed and paid for by the Government of Santa Cruz, not by the Federal Government, and that their accountability was approved by the National Audit Office and Congress from 2003 to 2015, at all times without allegations or suspicion of embezzlement of the public purse.

Although the evidence presented was refuted, the accusations were approved in subsequent judicial instances and maliciously amplified, without support, by hegemonic means such as Clarín and La Nación.