Overview

• The Supreme Court’s decision from justices Rosatti, Rosenkrantz and Lorenzetti upholds her 2022 conviction for awarding 51 contracts to businessman Lázaro Báez
• At 72, Fernández de Kirchner is likely to serve her six-year sentence under house arrest instead of in prison
• The lifetime disqualification bars her from contesting the province of Buenos Aires legislative elections scheduled for September 7
• Supporters have set up roadblocks around Buenos Aires and the CGT labor union is weighing a general strike in protest
• President Javier Milei hailed the ruling as evidence that “the republic functions” while Peronist leaders say it has unified their movement