This Saturday, thousands of people came out to demonstrate in squares and squares Argentina in support of Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who will stand trial for alleged corruption and is seeking 12 years in prison and political disqualification from the prosecution.
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The appeal, launched by social media, drew thousands of demonstrations in the country’s main cities and around the vice president’s house in the capital, where isolated incidents between protesters and police were recorded.
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Fernández, a 69-year-old center-left Peronist, was charged with aggravated aggravated merger and fraud offenses along with twelve others in a case of alleged corruption in public works bidding while he was president between 2007 and 2015. . .
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The central act convened by the government party Frente de Todos in Lezama Park from the capital, eventually gave way to a spontaneous call to Kirchner’s house in the Recoleta district.
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“People care about Cristina,” “Christina is Perón,” read some of the placards carried by the demonstrators among hundreds of Argentinean flags.
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City Hall, which is in the hands of right-wing opponent Horacio Larreta, has ordered a fence erected to prevent protesters from approaching the building where Cristina Fernández lives.
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The fact inflamed a group of protesters who, when trying to knock them down, were crushed by the police.
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President Alberto Fernández believed that “far from promoting calm, the operation created an atmosphere of uncertainty and intimidation.”
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The President deemed it “necessary to end the persecution of VP @CFKArgentina and guarantee citizens the right to freedom of expression and demonstration,” he tweeted.
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Officials, deputies, political, trade union and public figures joined the call to Recoleta.
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Demonstrations in front of the building where Kirchner lives have been held every day since last Monday. The prosecution requested 12 years in prison and an indefinite political disqualification for https://rpp.pe/mundo/actualidad/argentina-murio-claudio-bonadio-el-judge-investigating-former-president-cristina-fernandez-news-1243454.
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In other parts of the country, including Tucumán (northwest), Córdoba (center) and Rosario (center-east), thousands of people also gathered and held peaceful demonstrations.
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