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Argentine pres. due in court to testify

Friday, 06 February 2015 9:14 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 06 February 2015 9:14 AM ]

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President Cristina Kirchner

Manoel Giffoni
Press TV, Buenos Aires

After addressing the country on national television several days ago, now President Cristina Kirchner has been called to appear in court to testify on the death of Prosecutor Alberto Nisman.

The judicial officer had filed a criminal complaint accusing the president and her government's top officials of a cover-up attempt in the AMIA Jewish Center bombing case. According to the evidence found by investigators earlier this week, Nisman had also planned to issue an arrest warrant for Kirchner.

Amid one of its most serious political and institutional crises, Argentina is witnessing how dozens of conspiracy theories exist surrounding Nisman’s death.

According to the government, the opposition is using the case for political purposes and is spreading the rumor that Nisman was murdered and the president was the mastermind behind the murder.

While both the government and the opposition are under close scrutiny by the Argentine judiciary, experts argue that this is something entirely reasonable in any democracy especially when a criminal case involves the chief of the executive branch of government. They also affirm that any media insult against the judicial officials represents a challenge to the justice system.

President Kirchner is facing a tough domestic and international campaign by the right wing opposition and its allied media. Furthermore, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US House of Representatives announced it would send a delegation to follow up the judicial investigations in Argentina. Argentine ambassador in Washington has slammed the initiative as a breach of the country's sovereignty.

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