The Supreme Court ruling upholding the conviction of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and disqualifying her from standing as a candidate in the province of Buenos Aires is a serious act of political proscription that must be opposed. A political regime that relies on the exclusion of opponents from the electoral process does not comply with most elementary rule of a democracy.

The Court's grounds are an endorsement of a judicial process that does not seek to shed light on the enormous web of corruption that reigns in Argentina, in which all governments have their fingerprints on and whose beneficiaries are the country's main businessmen. They were not even investigated after the ‘notebooks case’, nor was Macri's fraud with Correo Argentino or his cousin Ángelo Calcaterra's fraud with the burying of the Sarmiento train. The only thing that drives the legal cases is the interest in conditioning the political process, which betrays a regime of proscription.

Cristina is responsible for the obvious corruption in public works during her government. But the judiciary acts according to the political interests of the cliques that operate within it. There is pressure from capitalist groups to proscribe CFK. There are also those who frame the ruling as part of the clashes between La Libertad Avanza and the PRO, with Macri taking away from Milei an element of polarization with Kirchnerism that benefits him in his attempt to swallow up the rest of the right-wing political forces. The rights of the electorate are subordinated to these dark arm-wrestling matches of capitalist politicians.

The trade union bureaucracy, which does not fight against layoffs and factory closures, which signs wage agreements with the official ceilings and did not lift a finger against the anti-strike decree (issued a fortnight ago by the national government, extending the mandatory minimum guardrails to effectively make strikes illegal), now agrees in some unions to mobilize for Cristina. In any case, in a plan of struggle to defeat the whole offensive of Milei, the IMF and the governors, the workers' movement can also oppose the political proscription.

The use of Justice for the proscription of opponents is also the corollary of its use to persecute fighters and militants through the setting up of trumped-up cases, the greatest expression of which is the judicial fraud against the Polo Obrero. The correlate of a regime of proscription is the attack on democratic freedoms and workers' rights.

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