BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited former Argentina President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at her dwelling Thursday, the place the previous chief is serving her six-year sentence for corruption beneath home arrest.
Fernández had requested the courtroom’s permission to obtain Lula, a longtime political and ideological ally. Lula was in Buenos Aires for the summit of the regional Mercosur commerce alliance and made the quick journey to Fernández’s dwelling in Argentina’s capital after the assembly concluded.
Lula was inside with Fernández for slightly below an hour and they didn’t seem publicly collectively.
It was not Lula’s first present of assist for Fernández since Argentina’s Supreme Courtroom upheld her sentence final month. He had referred to as her to specific his assist after her conviction.
Fernández had been convicted of directing state contracts to a pal whereas she was the primary girl and president. The sentence additionally completely bans her from holding public workplace.
Fernández dominated Argentine politics for twenty years and solid the nation’s major left-wing populist motion often known as Kirchnerism, after her and her husband, former President Néstor Kirchner.
Lula has additionally confronted imprisonment. Whereas he was held in a police station in Curitiba in 2019, additionally for corruption, he acquired then-Argentinian presidential candidate Alberto Fernández, a political ally of Cristina Fernández who isn’t associated to her. Lula’s conviction was later overturned.
