The Supreme Court of Argentina maintains Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s prison sentence

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the former president of Argentina and one of the most polarizing political figures of the country, was sentenced on Tuesday to imprisonment and was lived from public office after the Supreme Court has confirmed its corruption.

The statement will probably deepen the political tensions in the country and comes after Mrs. Kirchner, who was the target of a murder attack three years ago, has announced plans for a political comeback.

Supporters blocked important highways around the capital, Buenos Aires, prior to the decision of the court against the left -wing Mrs. Kirchner, who repeatedly clashes with the right -wing president of Argentina, Javier Milei, while large unions had threatened national strikes.

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Mrs. Kirchner and confirmed a prison sentence of six years pronounced by a lower court that had established that she had cheated the state as president during her two periods, from 2007 to 2015.

Yet it is unlikely that Mrs. Kirchner, 72, will serve a considerable prison time, since Argentinian law often allows house arrest for people older than 70. The lower court will determine whether Mrs. Kirchner gets home detention.

The former president could be held behind bars at a police station for a few days until a judge approves her house detention, said Andrés Gil Domínguez, professor in the constitutional rights at the University of Buenos Aires.

Mrs. Kirchner is a fixed value in Argentinian politics for more than three decades and remains a division. Although a large part of the country regards its presidency as synonymous with economic maladministration and corruption, she continues to negotiate a loyal base that credits her with extensive social programs.

Mrs. Kirchner, who was also vice -president from 2019 to 2023, has had to deal with countless corruption accusations. She was convicted in 2022 for sending public road work in a southern province for a family friend and business partner.

Mrs. Kirchner has denounced the charges as politically motivated and accused opponents of the weapon of the judiciary to curb her influence.

The court established that the regulation had started under her husband and pastor, Néstor Kirchner, and took place during her two presidential conditions. He was governor of the province of Southern Santa Cruz and served as president from 2003 to 2007. Mr Kirchner died in 2010.

Since 2024 she has led the legal party, the most important opposition to Mr Milei and the largest political platform for Peronism, the populist, nationalist movement that has formed much of the modern political history of Argentina.

Mr. Milei has, as well as her husband, often blamed, for years of economic mismanagement and systemic corruption that the country sent in a downward economic spiral. Mr Milei won office in 2023 by promising to lower government spending and to revise the state -heavy economy of Argentina.

Mrs. Kirchner recently announced that this year she was in the elections for a chair in the provincial legislative power of Buenos Aires. She would have been a tough favorite and a victory would have given her immunity to serve the punishment.

“Coincidence is not a political category,” Mrs. Kirchner told supporters on Monday, preparing herself for the decision of the highest court in Argentina. “It took us a candidacy only a week ago the day that the demons were unleashed.”

She characterized the efforts to exclude her as a way of her criticism of the right -wing economic policy of Mr. Milei to calm down, which include wide austerity measures.

“Go ahead, throw me in prison,” she said on Monday. “Do you really believe that this will solve something? I may be behind bars, but people will be worse off every day.”

During the process of Mrs. Kirchner in 2022, supporters gathered every day outside her apartment in Buenos Aires to show solidarity.

In September of that year, a man at the entrance of her building pointed to a charged gun on her head up close. The weapon stuck and she was not injured. The accused shooter and two others are held and are confronted with trial.

The former president is confronted with various other legal issues, including accusations of money laundering, orchestrating a corruption schedule with public works and conspiracy with Iran to hide his suspected role in the bomb attack in 1994 in a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires killed.