The Milei Government withdraws Cristina Kirchner’s pensions after confirming her conviction for corruption

The announcement was made this Thursday by the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, who explained that the measure is linked to the confirmation of the former president’s sentence for corruption – six years in prison and a lifetime disqualification from holding public office. «Argentina is not going to allocate funds to any person who is convicted of corruption“said the government spokesperson.

The decision had a strong media impact and received both applause and criticism. The local press questioned that this same measure has not been applied to other former heads of state. For example, they mentioned the case of former Argentine president Carlos Menem, who was also convicted of having committed acts of corruption during the years in which he was in charge of the Casa Rosada.

Cristina Kirchner’s reaction

A few hours after the measure was announced, former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner spoke about it and harshly criticized Milei. He even referred to the head of state with the terms “little dictator». In addition, he accused him of being unbalanced, stating: “You are off axis.”

“The little dictator that you always were is appearing,” he said in the statement released by the former president through her social networks. He then referred to ruling party voters who changed their minds. “Argentines who voted for you in good faith will not live long enough to regret having done so,” said the lawyer.

Immediately afterwards, Fernández de Kirchner accused the president of taking on a role that does not belong to him. “Now it turns out that, in addition to being head of the Executive Branch, you want to create and preside over a ‘Court of Honor’ to judge the honor, merit and good performance in office of the former Presidents of the Nation,” he said. . And he continued: “To make matters worse… a court with powers to set and apply penalties accessory to those of the Judiciary?”

Later in the text, the former official even compared the current head of state with the president of the last military dictatorship Jorge Rafael Videla. In this sense, he expressed: «Do you want to associate with the judicial mafia to persecute me too? Are you that afraid of me? I tell you that I was afraid of the dictator Videla, a lot. But you only make me feel sorry for you and embarrass you. Be careful Milei… Look, Olivos has made more than one person dizzy.” With irony, the former president shot: «Who makes up this ‘Court of Honor’? You, your sister and Adorni? The truth is that if they have a contest to see who is the dumbest, they end up tied.

Towards the end of the statement, Fernández de Kirchner maintained that the president does not have the power to decide on the pensions of those who passed through the Casa Rosada. «Stop giving illegal orders to officials… Get advice! The pension of former Presidents is not granted for good performance, but for the merit of having been elected by the people as Presidents of the Nation… For a very simple reason, Milei: only the people, through their representatives, “can revoke the honor and merit of having been elected President of the Nation,” he launched. And he closed the text by comparing himself with another former president: “Ask Martín Menem, your president of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation, why Aunt Zulema, widow of Carlos Menem, who left the world with criminal cases about smuggling of weapons, bonuses for officials and other herbs, and even convicted in the second instance.”