After being convicted in a corruption case, the Argentine vice president is in the town of El Calafate and will spend the next few days in isolation there. The meeting of the Puebla Group scheduled for Monday the 12th was suspended.
The meeting of the Puebla Group called for next Monday in Buenos Aires in support of the Argentine vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, following being convicted in a corruption casewas postponed to December 19 following the also former president tested positive for covid-19sources from his political environment confirmed this Thursday.
“The meeting of the Puebla Group ‘Popular Will and Democracy. From the military party to the judicial party, the threats to democracy’, which was scheduled to take place on December 12, is postponed until the 19th of the same month,” said an official statement from the press office of the Peronist leader. kirchnerista.
A postponement that, according to the published text, is due to the fact that the vice president “has tested positive” in a covid-19 test “, although “she is in good health in El Calafate”, a town in southern Argentina where the widow of former president Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) has a house.
Last Wednesday it was announced that the second vice president of the Government of Spain, Yolanda Díaz, and the former presidents Evo Morales (Bolivia), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), José Mujica (Uruguay), José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (Spain), and Ernesto Samper ( Colombia) were going to meet this Monday at a meeting of the Puebla Group in Buenos Aires in “solidarity” with Fernández.
According to this left-leaning political and academic forum, the meeting is promoted by the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, who would be present at the meeting, like Cristina Fernández.
The purpose of the meeting is to “denounce” that Fernández “has been the victim of a political trial orchestrated by the right with justice operators and the media to remove her from the democratic debate,” they said.
Last Tuesday, an oral court sentenced Cristina Fernández, who governed the country between 2007 and 2015, to 6 years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office for defrauding the Public Administration in a case for irregularities in the concession of road works during the Kirchner governments (2003-1015).
After the verdict was announced, the 69-year-old vice president stated that she was a victim of the “judicial mafia” and a “parastatal” apparatus that does not forgive her for defending the “rights of the people” and announced that she does not intend to run for any position in the 2023 general elections.
