The ruling makes her subject to arrest and bars her from running in upcoming Buenos Aires legislative elections.
Argentina’s Supreme Court has upheld a six-year prison sentence on corruption charges for former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
The ruling on Tuesday, which permanently bars the divisive 72-year-old from public office and makes her subject to arrest, prompted crowds of her supporters to block the streets of Buenos Aires in protest.
The left-wing former president denounced the ruling, claiming the court’s judges were acting in the service of the economically powerful.
“They’re three puppets answering to those ruling far above them,” she told supporters outside her party’s headquarters in Buenos Aires, in an apparent reference to the government of her rival, President Javier Milei.
