The Supreme Court in Argentina, Christina Fernandez de Kirchner, is in prison

Christina Fernandez de Kirchner, the former president of Argentina and one of the most political figures in the country, was sentenced to Tuesday and prevented lifetime from public positions after the Supreme Court endorsed its corruption.

The governance is likely to deepen political tensions in the country and come after Mrs. Kirchner, who was the goal Assassination Three years ago, I announced plans for Political return.

Supporters prevented the main highways around the capital, Buenos Aires, before the court’s decision against Mrs. Kirchner with a left -wing tendency, who has repeatedly clashed with the right -wing Argentina President Javier Miley, while the major labor unions threatened national strikes.

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Mrs. Kirchner in a ruling of 27 pages, as the prison sentence was established for a period of six years submitted by a minimum court and found that she was deceiving the state during her period as president, from 2007 to 2015.

However, it is unlikely that Mrs. Kirchner, a 72 -year -old, will spend a great time in prison because Argentine law often allows the arrest of the House of Representatives for those over the age of 70. The lower court, which will determine whether Mrs. Kirchner is taking detention at home, said that she has five working days to be submitted before being officially detained. Separately, it is He asked the Minister of Security to present a suitable place to detain it.

Andres Gil Domingz, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Buenos Aires, said that the former president behind bars could be held for a few days until the judge agreed to hold her.

“This Argentina, where we live today, does not stop surprising to us.” The three members of the Supreme Court described the “dolls” and described them as “a victory of the disgraceful personalities” who answered strong economic interests, and said that they are now “imposing the clamp on popular vote.”

As for Mr. Miley, he wrote, “Justice” on X and redeployed many of the messages that celebrated the rule of the Supreme Court.

A basic player in Argentine policy for more than three decades, Mrs. Kirchner remains an exciting personality. While most of the country views its presidency as synonymous with the poor economic administration and corruption, it continues to lead a sincere base that it attributes with wide social programs.

Mrs. Kirchner, who was also the Vice President from 2019 to 2023, faced many Corruption is concerned. She was I was convicted in 2022 Directing contracts in public road work in a southern district of a family friend and a workshop.

Mrs. Kirchner condemned the charges of political motives, accusing opponents of creating the judicial weapon to reduce her influence.

The court decided that the plan had started under her husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, and continued during her presidential term. He was the governor of the southern province of Santa Cruz and held the position of president from 2003 to 2007. Mr. Kirchner died in 2010.

Since 2024, it has led the neat party, the strength of the main opposition of Mr. Miley and the largest political platform for the bronz, the popular movement, which formed a lot of modern political history of Argentina.

Mr. Milli has often blamed Mrs. Kirchner, as well as her husband, for years of economic mismanagement and physical corruption that sent the country to a declining economic cycle. Mr. Millie won the position in 2023 by pledging to cut off public spending Heavy economy reform in Argentina.

Ms. Kirchner recently announced that she was nominated for a seat in the Legislative Board of Buenos Aires in the elections this year. It would have become a heavy favorite, and victory had given it immunity from the sentence.

“The coincidence is not a political group,” Ms. Kirchner told supporters on Monday. “It took us only to announce a nomination a week ago to unleash demons.”

The efforts made to imprison her as a way to calm her criticism of the right -wing economic policies of Mr. Miley, which included extensive austerity measures.

The two said: “Go ahead, throw me into prison.” “Do you really think that this will fix anything? I might be behind bars, but people will be worse on that day.”

During the trial of Mrs. Kirchner in 2022, supporters gathered outside her apartment in Buenos Aires every day to show solidarity.

In September of that year, a man at the entrance to her building operated a pistol loaded on her head in a distance. The weapon was jam, and it was not infected. The accused gunman and two others are detained and face the trial.

The former president faces many other legal issues, including charges of money laundering, coordination of the corruption plan that involves public works and conspiring with Iran to cover up its suspected role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, who killed 85 people.