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The legal team is weighing two possible routes
Former Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has added Brazilian jurist Rafael Valim to the team preparing a filing before international bodies to challenge her conviction in the Vialidad case, according to sources close to her cited by the Argentine press. Those sources did not specify when he will begin working or what the first procedural steps will be, and the information has not been officially confirmed by her defense.
Valim is a lawyer and professor of public law with more than two decades of experience in constitutional and administrative law and human rights. A doctor and master of law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, he has litigated before Brazil's Supreme Federal Court in cases involving the separation of powers and due process, and has taken part in proceedings before United Nations human rights mechanisms and the inter-American and European systems. He has written on the concept of lawfare, one of the pillars of the argument advanced by Kirchner's political movement since the conviction became final.
According to the same reports, Valim will work alongside Spanish jurist Javier Borrego, a former judge of the European Court of Human Rights and former justice of the Third Chamber of Spain's Supreme Court, who was already part of the international team advising the former president.
