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  • Argentina A photo of a clandestine party in full confinement puts Alberto Fernández on the ropes

The scandal of the clandestine party organized at his official residence in the hardest section of confinement does not give Argentine President

Alberto Fernández a

truce

:

the justice announced this Thursday that it will investigate the head of state.

Fernández is accused of

violating article 205 of the Penal Code,

which provides a penalty of 6 months to two years in prison for anyone who "violates the measures adopted by the competent authorities to prevent the introduction or spread of an epidemic."

The unusual thing about the situation is that the "competent authority" that "adopted" the "measures"

is Fernández himself,

who governs with a series of extraordinary powers delegated by Parliament and signed a good number

of Necessity and Urgency Decrees (DNU )

amid the covid-19 pandemic.

It is Fernández who ignores Fernández himself.

After blaming his partner,

Fabiola Yäñez,

for organizing the party, Fernández came to the conclusion that it was "a mistake", and promised that "it will not be repeated."

Surreal explanations

Days later, the "error" was moved from the center of the scene.

The Argentine president, who this week gave a virtual class on

Criminal Law Theory

at the

University of Buenos Aires (UBA),

in which he is a professor, wielded a striking defense of his own case:

there had been no infections

at the party of Yáñez's birthday, to which nine guests joined,

the crime "was not configured."

Fernández's theory was received with

amazement and rejection

by almost the entire range of legal experts, who point out that what the DNU signed by the president prohibited were social gatherings during the pandemic, without the need for these to lead to infections or not.

In a spontaneous presentation that was known today, the Argentine president offered to donate to

the Malbrán Institute,

specialized in virology, half of his salary for the next four months:

630,000 pesos, just over 3,000 euros

in total.

Photo of the controversial party.

Almost at the same time that the president's proposal was known, the lawyer for Vice President

Cristina Kirchner,

who was heading to be Fernández's, accused the prosecutor of the case of accepting bribes: the head of state made a note that

Gregorio Dalbón

already he would not be his lawyer in the investigation to which he is beginning to be subjected.

Argentina

is heading for a key mid-term legislative elections: in two weeks the primaries will be voted on, and polls indicate that the "affair" of the

Olivos presidential estate

took away many votes from the Peronist candidates in the middle of a pandemic that has already claimed the lives of 110,000 people.

Fernández already has enough problems for his lawyer to become one of them.

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