After the sentence handed down in the so-called Road Cause became final, the Justice ordered that Cristina Kirchner serve a six-year prison sentence in her apartment at 1111 San José Street, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución. The measure was adopted on June 17, 2025 by Federal Oral Court No. 2, which considered his age – 72 years – and security issues linked to the assassination attempt he suffered in 2022 to grant him the benefit of house arrest with an electronic anklet.
The conviction arose from the investigation into the alleged management of public road works in the province of Santa Cruz between 2003 and 2015. According to the accusation, during the governments of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner the businessman was systematically favored Lazaro Baez through the awarding of million-dollar contracts. The prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola They maintained that there was a maneuver designed to benefit the businessman through irregular bidding, overpricing, unfinished works and contracting mechanisms that harmed the State.
The oral trial was carried out by the judges Jorge Gorini, Rodrigo Giménez Uriburu and Andrés Bassowho convicted the former president of fraudulent administration to the detriment of the public administration and also imposed perpetual disqualification from holding public office. The sentence was later confirmed by higher authorities until it became final. A few days after the first anniversary of house arrest, scheduled for June 17, 2026, the surroundings of San José 1111 once again became a meeting point for Kirchnerist militancy.
Various political, social and cultural groups promoted activities to demand the freedom of the former president and denounce alleged judicial persecution. Among the sectors that participated, activists from New Encounter coming from Morón, led by the leader Martin Sabbatellain addition to organizations linked to Kirchnerism and suburban Peronism.
One of the most striking activities was the one called “Py Circus”, an artistic intervention conceived as a criticism of the judicial system. The performance included jugglers, acrobats, stilt artists, clowns, puppeteers, musicians and dancers who satirically represented the functioning of what the organizers defined as the “Judicial Party”.
However, the day was not limited to that representation. There were also murals, cultural interventions, musical shows, display of flags and posters, activities for children, balloons, pennants and political slogans under the slogans “Morón with Cristina” and “Cristina Libre”. At the close of the call, the National Anthem was sung and large flags were displayed with messages of support for the former president. During the activity, Cristina Kirchner went out to the balcony to greet the militants who had gathered in front of her home.
The rallies in front of the former head of state’s home were repeated for much of the last year. Under different slogans, including “Cristina Libre”, Peronist sympathizers and leaders held vigils, political events, cultural festivals, open radio stations and mobilizations to express support for those they consider the victim of a political ban. Even the Prosecutor’s Office requested restrictions for some of these calls, considering that they could affect public order in the area where the former president is serving her sentence. A most surreal moment was experienced when a mapping was carried out in the apartment of the former Head of State, illuminating it in pink, in reference to the Casa Rosada.
In this context, the first anniversary of house arrest appears as a new date of mobilization for Kirchnerism, which seeks to maintain the political centrality of its recognized leader despite the firm condemnation and the legal impossibility of competing electorally. One year after her entry into the house arrest regime, the address at San José 1111 continues to be one of the main points of reference for Peronist and Kirchnerist militancy, which combines political events, cultural expressions and street demonstrations to accompany the former president.
