Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Buenos Aires, June 16 – Demonstrations in support of former President Cristina Fernández, following the Supreme Court ruling sentencing her to six years in prison and banning her from political office for life, continue throughout Argentina today.
As part of the "Argentina with Cristina: They're coming for her, we're going with her" campaign promoted by the Justicialist Party (PJ, for its acronym in Spanish), with multi-sector support, meetings in support of the former president were held over the weekend from Santiago del Estero in the north to Ushuaia in the far south.
A massive mobilization, which Máximo Kirchner, the PJ's General Secretary in the Province of Buenos Aires, predicted would be historic, "the largest ever held," is expected to accompany her to the Comodoro Py courts next Wednesday and back to her home in Constitución.
The judge in charge of the case will have to decide whether or not to grant her house arrest and what rules she will follow, as requested by her lawyer, Carlos Beraldi.
Until after midnight, a crowd accompanied her in front of her home in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución, where people returned after the police forcibly evicted dozens of people who had been camping out near her building early Sunday morning.
Juan Grabois, social leader and head of the Argentina Humana group, condemned the eviction operation against the activists holding the vigil in front of Cristina's house.
«That a security force publishes an audiovisual piece of political propaganda -of poor quality but propaganda at last- with scenes of violence and combat music on 'the residence of Cristina Kirchner' is another step beyond the democratic limits», wrote the leader in X.
On Sunday afternoon, leaders of several religious congregations also held an ecumenical celebration in support of the former president in front of her home.
Teresa García, National Secretary General of the PJ, criticized the fact that "as long as Argentina's political destiny is in the hands of these three people (the supreme judges Rosenkrantz, Rosatti and Lorenzetti) who can arbitrate as they wish without cause or justification, we are in a severe institutional dissolution".
“Internationally, they'll be watching and asking: What value does the Supreme Court of Justice of this country have?” She stated 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.”
Regarding the recusal he filed, he commented that “the rules of due process establish certain sequences. If I challenge a judge, and he says, I don't accept the recusal, then another judge resolves this; not here, here they themselves directly rejected their own recusal.” (Text and photo: PL)
