ex-president Cristina Kirchner will be able to carry out her prison sentence at home-Liberation

Argentine justice authorized this Tuesday, June 17, the ex-president Cristina Kirchner on Tuesday, June 17 to carry out her sentence of six years in prison via a « Hard arrangement » As she had asked.

The judgment of a federal criminal chamber provides that the detention at his home in Buenos Aires will be carried out accompanied by« An electronic surveillance system », Without more details on said device.

The decision comes a week after the Supreme Court confirmation of a conviction of Cristina Kirchner at six years in prison and ineligibility for life, for fraudulent administration during her presidency (2007-2015). A resounding judgment against a key figure in Argentine policy for twenty years, successively first lady, head of the State and vice-president. To date, it is the main opponent to the Ultra -Liberian President Javier Milei.

Cristina Kirchner, 72 years old – age which in theory could allow her to avoid imprisonment – had asked via her lawyer to be able to carry out the sentence at her home, invoking institutional and security reasons. It argued in particular that as an ex-president, it benefits from police protection for life-and therefore from surveillance-from which it cannot escape. She also recalled that in September 2022, then vice-president, She was the victim of an assassination attempt.

Prosecutors who had officiated at the trial of Cristina Kirchner had however spoken on Tuesday against residence, believing that it was a « exception » and that in this concrete case, « The humanitarian reasons which justify such an exceptional measure are not obvious ».

Since his conviction by the Supreme CourtCristina Kirchner saw a hard core of peroneist activism (center left), a few hundred supporters taking turns in an almost almost permanent core under her windows in Buenos Aires. And that she goes out to greet several times a day from her balcony.

Tuesday’s judgment on home assignment also enjoined Cristina Kirchner « Refrain from any behavior likely to disturb the tranquility of the neighborhood and /or disrupt the peaceful cohabitation of its inhabitants ”.

The justicist (peronist) party is preparing for this Wednesday a massive demonstration of support for Kirchner, in Buenos Aires, to coincide with the start of the penalty: a « Immense mobilization », a promised Teresa Garcia, party secretary, who would go from the home of the former president to the courthouse.