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Fernandez and her former ministers are facing charges of corruption on several fronts, with a series of arrests in recent months, leading to accusations from her camp of collusion between President Mauricio Macri’s government and judges. Former Vice President Amado Boudou was detained last month on allegations of illicit enrichment involving a money-printing company, while former Planning Minister Julio De Vido is awaiting trial in jail after the lower house of Congress voted to remove his immunity.

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The attack on the Jewish community center killed 85 people and injured a further 150, making it the deadliest bombing in the country’s history.

Fernandez has described the accusations against her as “absurd” and said that seeking to normalize diplomatic relations with another state isn’t a crime. Her press department declined to comment on the order today but said that she will hold a press conference at 4.30 p.m. in Buenos Aires. Fernandez is already set to stand trial in another case led by Bonadio for alleged fraud in dollar futures trading.

Still, unlike De Vido’s case, the government will struggle to muster the two-thirds majority it needs to remove Fernandez’s immunity because Macri’s alliance has less seats in the Senate than in the lower house.

A vote on stripping her immunity “would be gifting her victimization,” said Javier Zelaznik, a professor in politics at Torcuato Di Tella university in Buenos Aires. “There’s going to be a lot of noise, but the result will be that she will continue in the Senate.”