The streets near the house of Cristina Kirchner become the axis of an explosive political chess in Argentina

• Argentina Cristina Kirchner alleges that "the sentence is already written" and that she is the victim of "a trial against Peronism"

Argentine political chess moved this Saturday to the streets around the apartment of Vice President

on a tense afternoon in

with fervent protesters in favor of the former president, overwhelmed police and fear of what may happen in the coming days.

"Today I woke up with the corner of my house literally besieged. The fences placed by Mr.

are more than just preventing free movement. They are more than just besieging the Vice President of the Nation," Fernández de Kirchner wrote in the early hours of the day on their social networks.

Larreta is

the mayor of Buenos Aires, who has security powers in the Argentine capital and decided to install some fences to delimit the area around the former president's residence, the scene of demonstrations in his support for days .

This Monday, two federal prosecutors requested 12 years in prison for the vice president, accused of corruption and defrauding the State.

In the streets of the

an upper and upper middle class area of ​​Buenos Aires, hundreds of protesters had settled down and even prepared their food and spent the night there.

The complaints of many neighbors had been growing, and Rodríguez Larreta, an opponent of the Peronist government and a candidate for the presidency in the 2023 elections, decided to act: clean the area after several days of the presence of protesters and control access through police presence and a series of of fences.

The installation of the fences was the signal for Fernández de Kirchner to claim that Rodríguez Larreta was virtually imprisoning her.

"They want to prohibit absolutely peaceful and joyous demonstrations of love and support, which take place in the face of the already undeniable persecution of the 'judicial party,'" argued the vice president.

"The logic of Mr. Larreta is the same logic of the judicial party. For the macristas (followers of former president

care and protection. For the Peronists: fences, city police infantry and even sticks, tear gas and pepper spray like Monday night. What was said that day at night: they were never and will never be democratic."

The reaction of the two-time president, who on Friday received the support of

during a visit to Buenos Aires by the former vice president of

plunged Rodríguez Larreta and the police stationed in front of the building where the former lives .

mandatory.

Surprised, the government of Buenos Aires saw how Peronism decided to suspend the demonstration in support of Cristina, scheduled for a park in Buenos Aires, and called on people to support her in front of her house.

After moments of tension and outbursts of violence, with the fences rendered useless under pressure from the vice president's supporters, the city police finally opted to withdraw and leave the streets to the protesters.

Mario Negri,

one of the parliamentary leaders of the opposition grouped in the coalition Together for Change, criticized the attitude of the leaders of Peronism, grouped in the

"The Front of All comes together only to defend impunity and reject some fences, while applying a phenomenal adjustment, multiplying poverty and devastating the economy. They confirm that they returned in 2019 to try to save Cristina and nothing else."

Negri's mention of the "adjustment" has to do with the cut in budget items ordered by the new Economy Minister, Sergio Massa, third leg of the ill-fated coalition of Peronist families that completes President

today deeply devalued in his can.

Fernández de Kirchner's return to the forefront of the public debate comes after President Fernández's striking intervention on Wednesday night, when he said he hopes that the prosecutor who is requesting imprisonment for his vice president does not choose to commit suicide.

"If someone is thinking that there is someone thinking of killing the

What I would give the prosecutor is some criminal law treatises, because as much as he shouts justice or corruption, he said endless legal nonsense Really, to encourage the idea that what happened to Nisman could happen to prosecutor Luciani... that until now what happened to him was that he committed suicide, nothing else has been proven. I hope that the prosecutor does not do something like that Luciani".

Prosecutor

was found dead in his apartment in Buenos Aires in January 2015, one day before appearing before Congress to explain a strong complaint against then-president Fernández de Kirchner.

The Argentine justice is investigating a murder, not a suicide, and Fernández himself maintained for years that "nobody" in the country believed in Nisman's suicide.

In 2019, when Kirchner nominated him for the presidency, he began to change his arguments.

At the international level, between Wednesday and Thursday, the two-time president received the public support of five presidents of the region: Fernández (Argentina),

and

All of them maintain that Fernández de Kirchner is a victim of the so-called "lawfare", a kind of political conspiracy in which justice, the media and the governments of a theoretical right would converge.

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