More than 80 legislators held a press conference in the Senate to express their demand one year after the three Supreme Court justices upheld her six-year prison sentence, commuted to house arrest, and her lifetime political ban.

  “There is no true democracy with biased judges, nor when the citizens’ right to elect their representatives is impeded,” stated Representative German Martinez, president of the UxP bloc. He added that “today, neither genocidal figures nor drug traffickers are subjected to the same conditions of detention as Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.”

  For his part, the leader of the Popular bloc in the Senate, Jose Mayans, described the ruling against the former president as “disproportionate and excessive” and asked, “Are they so afraid of her?”

  Mayans remembered that Cristina announced her candidacy on June 5 (of 2025), which she ratified within the Justicialista Party on the 9th, and the Court issued its ruling swiftly the following day. He described the case as flawed and designed to disqualify her due to fear of her poll numbers.

  Comparing her conditions to those of other house arrestees, the Senate leader explained that only 23 percent wear ankle monitors, only 1.6 percent have their visits restricted in general, while 44.8 percent are granted permission to leave their homes, and 15 percent of those detained for crimes against humanity receive such permission.     L

  Legislative leaders pointed out they are coordinating with the former president’s lawyers to file a joint complaint, emphasizing that her “situation is incompatible with the most fundamental principles of the Argentine democratic system,” and reiterating that Cristina is “the victim of political persecution.”

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