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The two-time president and current vice president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, is in serious trouble with the law. Fernández is accused of aggravated fraud and leading an “illicit association” that was apparently related to a bribery scheme linked to infrastructure projects. The former president was sentenced to six years in prison and received lifelong disqualification from holding public office. What comes next in this process? We analyze it in our program.
According to investigations, the vice president diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts financed by Argentine taxpayers to a business associate and also to a friend of her family. All this to build different roads in the Patagonia region. These projects were not completed or, in the worst case, they went drastically over their budgets.
Three judges have determined the verdict: Fernández de Kirchner was sentenced to six years in prison, although federal prosecutors requested 12 years in detention. The former president also received perpetual disqualification from holding public office.
Although she has the right to appeal the verdict, while this is pending in court and the appeal is resolved, the former president could run for public office. The next presidential elections in Argentina are scheduled for 2023, although Fernández de Kirchner has already said that he will not run.
For now, this judicial decision does not entail an immediate arrest, because in her defense the vice president can appeal the sentence in different instances of the Argentine justice, until reaching the Supreme Court, which has the last word in this process that could last for several years. years.
What impact does this decision have on Argentine politics? What precedent does this set for the history of the country? How is it received by Argentine society, strongly polarized by current politics? What path is beginning to open up for the presidential elections? We analyze it in this program with our guests:
– Julio Raffo, lawyer, professor of philosophy of law, former national deputy and legislator.
– Rodolfo Colalongo, political analyst, teacher and researcher at the Externado de Colombia University.
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