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Buenos Aires, June 7 (EFE) - Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) warned this Saturday that they could put her in prison, to prevent her from competing in the legislative elections of the province of Buenos Aires that will be held next September.
In an event in the Argentine province of Corrientes (northeast), Fernández, who chairs the opposition Justicialist Party (PJ, Peronist), stated that "demons" have been unleashed since he announced a few days ago that he will run as a provincial legislator candidate in the Buenos Aires elections on September 7.
"The announcement came out and the demons were unleashed, and they started demanding from all sides that I be put in jail. That's what one reads. One shouldn't get angry; one must be attentive to them putting me in jail," stated the former president.
"All this with editorials that say 'she's finished, cornered.' If I'm so bad, why don't they let me compete and then defeat me politically? Come on, look how I tremble," challenged Fernández.
Local media speculate on the possibility that the Supreme Court of Argentina will rule imminently and confirm a sentence against Fernández of six years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office.
In December 2022, an oral court imposed that sentence on Fernández in the so-called 'Vialidad case' for irregularities in the concession of 51 road works in the province of Santa Cruz (south) to companies of the businessman Lázaro Báez during his Government.
For its part, the Fourth Chamber of the Federal Criminal Cassation Court confirmed, in November 2024, the sentence against the former president, who appealed the ruling before the Supreme Court.
At the event this Saturday in Corrientes, Fernández recalled that in September 2022, when the oral trial for this case was in its final phase, a man attempted to shoot her in the face while she was greeting militants at the doors of her apartment in Buenos Aires.
"They shot at my face because they want me imprisoned or dead. What they will never be able to prevent my return is the people, who have an identity and a history in Argentina," asserted the former president.Fernández, 72, also criticized the economic model of severe adjustment of the ultra-right-wing Javier Milei government.
