Just one week after announcing her intention to stand in the legislative elections in the province of Buenos Aires on 7 September, Argentina’s former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) lost her final appeal against a six-year prison sentence for corruption and a lifetime ban on holding public office. Fernández alleged that the timing of the supreme court (CSJN) ruling was no coincidence and that magistrates representing the “judicial party” had expedited the process as soon as they became aware of her electoral intentions, serving the interests of President Javier Milei and his far-right La Libertad Avanza (LLA). Paradoxically, however, her conviction could benefit the governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, an estranged ally in the Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronist), more than Milei.
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