APExplains: Corruption trial against former Argentine President Cristina Fernández as she seeks to return to power.
Former President Cristina Fernandez speaks with her lawyer Carlos Beraldi inside a federal courtroom in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, May 21, 2019. Fernandez is in court for the first in a series of corruption trials.
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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