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BUENOS AIRES, June 13, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Former Argentine president Cristina 
Kirchner said Friday she will surrender to authorities next week to begin 
serving a six-year prison sentence for corruption, which she has asked to 
serve under house arrest.

Writing on X, Kirchner, 72, said she would hand herself in on Wednesday at 
the Palace of Justice in Buenos Aires "to conform with the law, as I have 
always done."

Wednesday is the last day for her to submit to the authorities after the 
Supreme Court this week rejected her appeal against her conviction for 
fraudulent administration during her 2007-2015 presidency.

The court's ruling rendered Kirchner's 2022 conviction and sentence, which 
includes a life-long ban on holding public office, final.

Kirchner, who leads opposition to libertarian President Javier Milei's cost-
cutting agenda, has requested to serve her sentence at her home in Buenos 
Aires -- an arrangement available to over-70s.

Supporters of the polarizing left-winger who has been a dominant force in 
Argentine politics for the past two decades have cried foul over her 
conviction.

They accuse the prosecution and judiciary of being cosy with her right-wing 
political foes.

But some Argentines have expressed satisfaction at what they see as just 
punishment for the leader of the left-wing populist Peronist movement, which 
has been accused of widespread corruption and economic mismanagement.