The Vice President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, has tested positive for coronavirus, as announced by the Puebla Group, which has confirmed that a meeting in which the leader was to participate next Monday has therefore been postponed.
“The meeting of the Puebla Group ‘Popular will and democracy. From the military party to the judicial party, threats to democracy’, which was scheduled to take place on December 12, has been postponed until the 19th of the same month,” he said. the organization said. “This postponement is due to the fact that Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has tested positive for COVID-19. Cristina is in good health in El Calafate,” she added in her account on the social network Twitter .
The diagnosis has been confirmed by collaborators of the also president of the Senate, who have indicated in statements to the Argentine state news agency, Telam, that “Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has tested positive for COVID-19.” “She is in good health in El Calafate,” they have reiterated.
The Argentine vice president was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office for a crime of corruption, within the framework of what is known as the “Road case”, although the sentence can still be appealed. Following the ruling, Fernandez de Kirchner denounced being the victim of a “parallel state” and “a judicial mafia.”
Fernandez de Kirchner had been accused of participating in a plot to defraud the State through the concession of public works in the province of Santa Cruz during her tenure as president (2007-2015) and that of the former president and her late husband, Nestor Kirchner. (2003-2007).
