Argentina’s Supreme Court has handed former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner a lifetime ban from holding public office

Argentina’s Supreme Court has upheld a six-year prison sentence against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the polarizing former president and one of the country’s most influential politicians, barring her from public office for life.

An Argentine judge on Tuesday approved a request from former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to serve out her six-year prison sentence for corruption at home. Kirchner, 72, a polarizing leftist figure who was president from 2007 to 2015,