War is declared between Cristina Kirchner and the Argentine Supreme Court. At the end of June, the country’s highest court gave the green light to the continuation of a trial in an embezzlement case involving the Argentine vice-president. And on Monday, July 18, the latter published a seven-minute video on social networks accusing the institution “to have already written and, at this stage, signed” a conviction against him. Cristina Kirchner notably urges the political parties to build a new court: with the current Supreme Court, “it will be very difficult to improve living conditions” of the population, she asserted.
Very serious remarks widely commented on in the Argentine press, thatThe Country America contextualizes from Buenos Aires: “The war between Kirchnerism and the Supreme Court is not new. It started under the government of Cristina Kirchner [présidente pendant deux mandats, de 2007 à 2015]but it increased in 2015 under the Macri presidency [droite libérale]during which federal courts initiated dozens of investigations against former senior Kirchnerist officials accused of corruption.”
According to the site devoted to current events in the Americas, Cristina Kirchner herself was involved in a dozen procedures, until the coming to power, in 2019, of