Demonstrations in support of former president Cristina Fernández following the Supreme Court ruling that sentences her to six years in prison and disqualifies her politically for life continue today across Argentina.
In the campaign «Argentina with Cristina: They’re coming for her, we’re going with her» promoted by the Justicialist Party, with multi-sectoral support over the weekend, meetings were held in support of the former president from Santiago del Estero, in the north, to Ushuaia, in the far south.
A gigantic mobilisation, which Máximo Kirchner, the Secretary General of the PJ in the Province of Buenos Aires, predicted would be historic, «the largest ever», is expected to accompany her to the Comodoro Py courts next Wednesday and back to her home in Constitución.
The judge in the case will have to decide whether or not to grant her house arrest and what rules she will have to comply with, as requested by her lawyer Carlos Beraldi.
Until after midnight, a crowd was accompanying her in front of her home in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Constitución, where the people returned after the police forcibly evicted dozens of people who remained camped out in the vicinity of her building in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Juan Grabois, social leader and head of the Argentina Humana group, repudiated the eviction operation against the activists who were holding a vigil in front of Cristina’s house.
That a security force publishes an audiovisual piece of political propaganda – of poor quality but propaganda nonetheless – with scenes of violence and combat music about ‘Cristina Kirchner’s residence’ is another step outside democratic limits,» the leader wrote in X. «The fact that a security force has published an audiovisual piece of political propaganda – of poor quality but propaganda nonetheless – with scenes of violence and combat music about ‘Cristina Kirchner’s residence’ is another step outside democratic limits.
On Sunday afternoon, in front of her home, leaders of various religious congregations held an ecumenical celebration in support of the former president.
Teresa García, National Secretary General of the PJ, criticised that «as long as the political destiny of Argentina is in the hands of these three people (Supreme Judges Rosenkrantz, Rosatti and Lorenzetti) who can arbitrate as they wish without cause and without justification, we are in a severe institutional dissolution».
«Internationally they will be looking and asking themselves: What value does the Supreme body of Justice of this country have, right?» he said. He said in an interview with Radio 10.
In statements to FM Millenium, the former president’s lawyer, Carlos Beraldi, described what the Supreme Court has done in Cristina’s case as «grotesque».
On the recusal he presented, he commented that «the rules of due process establish certain sequences. If I recuse a judge, and he says, I do not accept the recusal, then this is resolved by another magistrate; not here, here they directly rejected their own recusal».
