Argentina’s top court effectively banned two-term former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from office and upheld a six-year jail sentence, likely drawing a curtain on one of the country’s most flamboyant and divisive political careers.

Nation’s highest tribunal is reviewing former president’s graft conviction in the ‘Vialidad’ conviction; Decision on whether to uphold sentence and enforce ban on public office creeps closer and may derail her intended candidacy in Buenos Aires Province.

Argentina’s supreme court has upheld the corruption conviction of former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, triggering a six-year jail term and lifetime political ban for the main opposition leader to President Javier Milei.