Ex-partner of Argentina's former president Alberto Fernández accuses him of abuse
The ex-partner of former Argentine President Alberto Fernández has accused him of physically and emotionally abusing her
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The ex-partner of former Argentine President Alberto Fernández has accused him of physically and emotionally abusing her, according to an Argentine court order issued Tuesday. The allegations shocked the country and threaten to further stain the reputation of the moderate leftist whose government many Argentines blame for deepening an economic crisis.
In the judicial order obtained by The Associated Press, the Buenos Aires federal court opened a criminal investigation into the accusations of “psychological terrorism," phone harassment and physical abuse against Fernández from Fabiola Yáñez, his former partner of at least eight years and the mother of his second child.
The order said Yáñez, who testified by phone from her home in Madrid, has decided to press charges against Fernández for threatening and “psychologically intimidating” her daily and causing her “minor injuries in a context of gender-based violence." The document did not give further details about her accusations of physical violence.
Fernández, a left-leaning Peronist politician who was president of Argentina from 2019 to 2023, vigorously denied her allegations and promised he would prove to the courts “what really happened.”
“It’s false and what I’m now being accused of never happened,” Fernández said in a statement posted Tuesday on the social media platform X, declining to say more to the media, citing his family’s privacy.
In the ruling, Judge Julián Ercolini granted Yáñez a restraining order that prevents the former president from coming within 500 meters (yards) of her and from contacting her.
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