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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 10 June 2025
1. Mid of Justicialist Party headquarters exterior
2. Close-up of Justicialist Party emblem on building
3. Former President of Argentina Cristina Fernández exiting Justicialist Party headquarters
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cristina Fernández, former President of Argentina:
"In today’s Argentina, we never cease to be surprised. First, the salary cap imposed by the misgovernment of Javier Milei and now the judicial party adds a cap on the popular vote."
5. Wide of crowd chanting and jumping
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cristina Fernández, former President of Argentina:
"A month before the presidential candidacies were formalized, they had us in the dock in this very case."
7. Mid of party flags
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cristina Fernández, former President of Argentina:
"The economic powers may trip over the same stone once, but not twice. They know we are the only ones who can build an alternative when this collapses."
9. Close-up of protester holding party flag
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cristina Fernández, former President of Argentina:
"When I went to testify for more than three or four hours, I made every point clear and said before I stood up that the sentence was already written — and unfortunately I was not wrong."
11. Mid of supporter jumping and singing
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cristina Fernández, former President of Argentina:
"We will put our bodies on the line because we care, unlike the mafioso right. We Peronists stay here because for us, our bodies matter — we are valuable. We are not mafiosos, we are not mafiosos."
13. Mid of Fernández leaving headquarters and entering car
STORYLINE:
Argentina’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the 6-year prison sentence on corruption charges for former President Cristina Fernández.
The court ruling disqualifies the leader of South American country’s opposition movement, known as Peronism, from holding public office.
It left Fernández, one of Argentina’s most important political figures of the past two decades, at the brink of an arrest by authorities.
Fernández governed for eight years after succeeding her husband in 2007.
Under her watch, Argentina became notorious for its unbridled state spending and massive budget deficits.
She was found guilty by a federal court in 2022 of having committed a millionaire fraud during her presidency through irregular allocation of state funds to a businessman close to her.
Fernández had asked the court for a review of the prison sentence in March, which three judges of the high court rejected.
Tuesday’s court decision means that Fernández will not be able to compete in September for a seat in the legislature in the country’s capital, as she had announced.
As the ruling was announced, supporters of Fernández and her political movement blocked main roadways into Buenos Aires.
She said the day before that even if she is in jail, Peronism will live on in resistance to President Javier Milei, whose austerity measures stand in stark contrast to the policies implemented during her leadership.
“We will put our bodies on the line because we care, unlike the mafioso right. We Peronists stay here because for us, our bodies matter — we are valuable,” she said to her supporters.
Fernandez’s defense is expected to request she serve her sentence in house arrest, given she is over 70 years old.
She has questioned the impartiality of the judges and claimed that much of the evidence was gathered outside legal deadlines and that her legal defense didn’t have access to it.
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