Cristina Kirchner and Bolsonaro: two prisons, two realities
As expected, the house arrest she is serving in her apartment in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución has failed to keep Cristina Kirchner away from the Peronist campaign that is brewing in search of victory in the upcoming legislative elections.
It was thus that the former president and head of the Justicialist Party was present at a Peronist plenary session held in Quilmes through a voice message that she sent to the mayor of Quilmes, Mayra Mendoza , urging the militants to Take to the streets in support of the party lists for the Buenos Aires elections next September He had already given speeches to the supporters gathered weeks ago in Lezama Park .
The former president's conduct and the conditions of her detention contrast markedly with those of another political leader, Jair Bolsonaro , who is detained in Brazil and facing prosecution for leading an attempted coup against President Lula da Silva .
The local court established that Cristina Kirchner will serve a sentence of 6 years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office for defrauding the State by directing road works in Santa Cruz to Lázaro Báez , as ordered in the Vialidad case. Therefore, he must comply with the following requirements:
· Remain at the designated address, an obligation that cannot be breached except in exceptional situations of force majeure, which must be duly justified.
· Serve the sentence at home, with electronic monitoring.
· Request and obtain court authorization, without exception, if you need to leave your home.
· Refrain from engaging in behavior that may disturb the tranquility of the neighborhood.
· Her family members, police guards, doctors treating her, and lawyers representing her will be able to access the home where she is serving her prison sentence without judicial authorization.
· Any person not on the submitted list must request permission from the court to enter the home and explain the reasons for access.
Bolsonaro, meanwhile, has added restrictions since early 2024 when police confiscated his passport. He is currently monitored 24/7 via an electronic anklet. In his case:
· You may move around freely, although with restrictions: at night (from 7 p.m. to 7 p.m.) you must stay at home.
· You may not have contact with foreign ambassadors or physically approach any embassy.
· He also cannot use social media or maintain contact with his sons, Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro and Carlos Bolsonaro (the ban includes broadcasting, rebroadcasting, or publishing audio, video, or transcripts of interviews on any of these platforms).
Following the publication on his social media of interviews he gave to the press in recent days, Bolsonaro was warned by Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes about the possibility of ordering his immediate imprisonment for violating the ban on protesting on social media. Such a reasonable limitation has not been contemplated in the detention conditions set for the former Argentine president, who makes unrestricted use of social media.
Both detainees present themselves as censored political victims and maintain that their trials, which concluded with their arrests, have been flawed. Cristina Kirchner tried to discredit the process by presenting herself as a victim of the lawfare . It hides the obvious evidence that, over the course of nine years, fifteen judges intervened in the Vialidad case, most of them appointed during the Kirchner administration itself, and that none of them rejected the sentence for fraudulent administration that was handed down against them.
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