Overview

• National electoral prosecutor Ramiro González requested that the Cámara Nacional Electoral exclude Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from the definitive voter roll based on the perpetual disqualification from her Vialidad conviction.
• González cited the Villafañe case and the Supreme Court’s Orazi ruling to argue that, absent a new law from Congress, people with perpetual ineligibility should not remain on the register.
• The definitive padrón is scheduled for publication on September 16, with an additional ten days allowed to correct errors or omissions, compressing the court’s timetable.
• On July 18, substitute federal judge Mariel Borruto declared automatic disenfranchisement unconstitutional and ordered Kirchner kept as an active elector solely so she could vote.
• The Penal Code includes loss of electoral rights within perpetual disqualification and the National Electoral Code contemplates exclusion, yet the CNE has previously rejected automatic bans; judges Daniel Bejas, Alberto Dalla Via and Santiago Corcuera will decide as prosecutors separately pursue asset seizure requests.