Christina Kirchner condemned: check the queen?

Sentenced to 6 years in prison and disqualified from holding public office in a corruption case, Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the country’s most powerful politician in recent decades, has decided to step down in the 2023 elections.

“I’m not going to run for anything, not for president, not for senators. My name will not be on any ballot.” It was a surprise statement from the former president (2007-2015) in a speech she delivered from the Senate office on Tuesday as soon as the verdict was announced.

And although for opposition to the Peronist government Alberto Fernandez the decision was a triumph of justice, an image that showed Christina Kirshner During the speech, she was the furthest away from the vanquished, after prosecutors requested 12 years in prison for her last August.

Faced with days of massive backlash in the streets, there were few mobilizations on Tuesday, the previous silence of La Campora, a movement led by Maximo Kirchner, the vice president’s son and the late former president. Very unexpected. Nestor Kirchner (2003-2007).

In a recent imaginary figure, a mass action in Buenos Aires, the city of La Plata, in which Christina Kirshnertold about 60,000 people about achievements in campaign mode Kirchner government and opening a window to the future, although not opening it.

“It has been shown that the elections can be won, but the conditions are so serious and deep that they have left us that it will take all Argentines, or at least the majority, all to unite in one direction,” he said. that November 17, Peronist Militancy Day.

That night, before the screams”Christina Presidentto the public, she quoted the historical figure Juan Domingo Peron: “As the general said, everything is in moderation and harmoniously.”

Flag or ballast?

It is undeniable that her figure has a huge influence on the Peronist spectrum, so her participation in the 2023 campaign was almost certain, if not as a presidential candidate, then at least as a senatorial candidate, a position that, moreover, This allowed him to maintain immunity in the event that Tuesday’s verdict is upheld by the Supreme Court.

However, based on what was said on Tuesday, Christina Kirshner does not want to harm Frente de Todos — the name under which Alberto Fernandez won the 2019 elections — by being a “convicted candidate.”

Or do you not want to reveal yourself?

It does not escape anyone that the current position of the executive branch, with the image of the president increasingly weakened by the economic crisis, with inflation close to 90% and 43.1% of the population below the poverty line, as well as tensions in the ruling party, is alarming. a very difficult picture for Peronism.

Not knowing if President Fernandez will run for re-election, and with the proximity of a powerful figure such as Economy Minister Sergio Massa of international importance and weight in the local “establishment”, there is no safer move for the moment. than “no” to the vice president.

On December 10, 2023, the executive body formed as a result of the October elections will take office, in which, as he said this Tuesday and in December 2015, when the mandate of the centre-right Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) began, Cristina Fernandez will return home.

stability

The daughter of a state employee and a bus driver, Cristina Fernandez He studied law in his native La Plata, where in 1974 he met Nestor Kirchnerwith whom he shared political activism.

After getting married and with the beginning of the dictatorship (1976-1983), they moved to Rio Gallegos, his hometown, and worked as lawyers. In 1987 Kirchner He was elected mayor of this city, and in 1991 – governor of the province of Santa Cruz.

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, she served as a provincial, national, and senator, and her popularity rose as a result of government rule Kirchner and her subsequent mandates.

In 2008, he had to deal with the so-called “rural crisis”, which included several employers’ strikes in the agricultural sector and roadblocks, which, among other things, led to the resignation of the then economy minister, Martin Lousteau. today opponent of the government -.

He died two years later Kirchnerwhom even today, twelve years later, he continues to call his “partner” and, despite the emotional shock that this caused, continues to lead the executive branch.

His second term was marked by an economic situation that led to the victory of the opposition in 2015.

However, four years later, he reappeared and announced via Twitter who would be the Peronist candidate. Alberto Fernandezwho was chief of staff with two Kirchner. She will complete the formula as Vice President.

Since in 2016, after the completion of her second term, she was first prosecuted – in a case of alleged irregularities in the transactions in dollar futures contracts during her presidency – many accusations have arisen, and she is currently involved in several court cases. .

Christina KirshnerThe 69-year-old continues to claim that he is the victim of “justice” (judicial prosecution), although on Tuesday he upped the ante and denounced the “semi-state mafia” always associated with Macri’s entourage.

On September 1, she came out unscathed after an attack at the door of her house, and since the verdict on Tuesday, she supports, like the song, the Resistiré flag. (EFE-Concepción M. Moreno)