President will be in Argentina between Wednesday and Thursday to participate in the Mercosur Summit, in which the Argentine representative Javier Milei, whom Kirchner is a fierce criticism will also be
The former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner He asked, on Tuesday (1st), permission to the court so that the Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva can visit her in house arrest in Buenos Aireswhere it meets six years for corruption, confirmed the responsible judge. Lula will be in Argentina between Wednesday and Thursday to participate in the Mercosurin which the Argentine President Javier Milei will also be, of whom Kirchner is a fierce criticism.
Cristina Kirchner’s defense “presented today [terça-feira] A petition requesting permission for Lula’s visit, ”said Judge Jorge Gorini, and added that the court has not yet responded to the request. Sent six years in prison and perpetual ineligibility by fraudulent administration, Kirchner fulfills his sentence in his apartment on Rua San José, in the Constición neighborhood.
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The court that condemned her in the first instance, chaired by Gorini, determined, among other measures, that she must ask permission to receive visits other than family members, doctors or lawyers. For the eventual visit of Lula to materialize, the Court must authorize the defense request.
For now, the Brazilian presidency did not confirm the meeting. “We don’t know yet. Schedule still under construction,” said a source from the Planalto Palace. This will be Lula’s first visit to Argentina since Milei’s inauguration in December 2023, and a bilateral meeting is not foreseen between the two.
Two weeks ago, the federal deputy (PT/RS) Paulo Pimenta had anticipated that Lula would visit “his friend Cristina” to “personally transmit his affection and solidarity”, during an interview with an Argentine radio. However, days later, Gisela Padovan, Secretary of Latin America and Caribbean of Itamaraty, told AFP that she had no information about the possible visit, as Lula’s passage would be “very fast.” He “arrives there at night, does the meeting and comes back,” he said.
Mercosur, formed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia, will hold on July 2 and 3 its semiannual dome of heads of state at the San Martín Palace in Buenos Aires. On Wednesday, the Ministers of the Economy and the Chancellers will meet and, on Thursday, will take place the plenary session with the presidents.
Source: Jovempan
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