The federal court in charge of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s sentence ruled that the former president will be allowed to step out onto her apartment’s balcony, after the Peronist leader’s defense requested a clarification on the matter. On Thursday, she was fitted with an ankle monitor, a decision her defense had protested against.

Federal Court 2 asked Kirchner to have “sufficient judgment, prudence, and common sense” when using the balcony, not to disturb the local neighborhood.

Before she started serving a six-year prison sentence under house arrest on Tuesday, Kirchner had been waving from her balcony at the thousands of supporters who, to this day, gather outside her apartment in Buenos Aires’ neighbourhood of Constitución.

However, on Wednesday, a march that was supposed to start from her apartment was changed to a protest in Plaza de Mayo after the Federal Court 2’s order for Kirchner’s house arrest ordered her to “abstain from adopting behaviors that could disturb the neighborhood’s tranquility and/or alter the peaceful coexistence of its inhabitants.” She interpreted that as a prohibition on going out to her balcony, and her defense asked the court for clarification on the matter, which the court addressed on Thursday.

On Wednesday, the protest’s organizers broadcast a recorded message from Kirchner. “Hello, how are you, dear compatriots, in that wonderful and historic Plaza de Mayo? Well, I am here, in 1111 San José street, firm and calm. Of course, I am not allowed to go out to the balcony,” Kirchner said at the start of her speech.

The court’s decision regarding the balcony does not clarify whether she is allowed to give speeches from there. It only says that she should assess in which situation using the balcony “may imply a disturbance to the tranquility and peaceful coexistence of the neighborhood and its inhabitants.”

On Thursday night, after Kirchner was fitted with an ankle monitor, Quilmes mayor Mayra Mendoza visited her. In a brief chat with the press, Mendoza, a leader in the Peronist youth group La Cámpora, asked activists to “give love” to Kirchner.