Ms Fernández has called the legal case against her “an attack on the whole of Peronism” which has duly united behind her. The gun attack has supercharged her claim to be a victim
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskNow Argentina is again confronted with events which combine theatre and, seemingly, conspiracy of one kind or another. On September 1st a man aimed a gun at point-blank range at the face of Ms Fernández, who is now the vice-president, and pulled the trigger. She survived “because for some reason…the gun didn’t fire,” said the president, Alberto Fernández .
The incident came as a prosecutor is seeking a 12-year jail sentence against Ms Fernández for alleged involvement in steering public-works contracts padded by around $1bn to a crony in Santa Cruz, a province in Patagonia which her late husband once governed. She denies wrongdoing and says the allegations are political. She unleashed a tirade denouncing a supposed plot against her, calling on her supporters to take to the streets.
Her political fortunes had been declining in tandem with Argentina’s worsening economy. She picked Mr Fernández, a former critic who had greater appeal for moderates, to head the Peronist ticket in the election of 2019 and to act as her proxy. But she fell out with him after he agreed with theto enact austerity measures which she fears would hurt her political clientele in the impoverished suburbs of Buenos Aires.
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