AP Explains: Corruption trial against former Argentine President Cristina Fernández as she seeks to return to power.
FILE - In this March 31, 2008 file photo, Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, left, talks to her Chief of Cabinet, Alberto Fernandez, during a meeting at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires. Cristina Fernandez announced on Saturday her candidacy for vice president in October's general elections on Saturday, May 18, 2019, and that Alberto Fernández will run for the presidency against conservative President Mauricio Macri.
The center-left Fernández denies any wrongdoing and has called the trial a political “smoke screen.” She accuses the administration of her successor, conservative Mauricio Macri, of persecuting her in hopes of distracting from Argentina’s current economic troubles and of undermining her popularity.Other former Argentine presidents have faced trials, but Fernández is the only one to do so while having a clear shot of returning to power.
More than 120 witnesses will be called to testify. They include her former Cabinet chief, Alberto Fernández, who is now at the top of her party’s presidential ticket.Human rights leaders, left-wing politicians and unionists showed their support for Fernández at the courtroom Tuesday. Outside, a crowd of sympathizers chanted her name and waved Argentina’s national flag.
But many Argentines are also suspicious of the courts in a country where scandals often grab headlines before they get lost in slow-moving and often unresolved investigations.
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