The complaint of gender violence against former President Alberto Fernández, with the dissemination in the local press of alleged chats and photos where the former first lady is seen with bruises, shocks Argentina and has unleashed a deep crisis in the now opposition.
The news portal Infobae published images of Fabiola Yanez with blows to his arm and face and chats that compromise the former president who governed between 2019 and 2023.
On Tuesday, Yáñez, a 43-year-old former journalist and presenter who was Fernández’s partner for almost ten years, denounced him for physical violence and psychological before Judge Julián Ercolini, who ordered the reinforcement of his custody and prohibited the former president from leaving the country.
Alberto Fernandez65, denies violence and promises “evidence” about what “the truth of the facts is another”.
The case has dominated the media agenda and Argentine conversations and sparked a wave of rejection of Fernández from across the political spectrum, with the ruling party at the forefront.
“Progressive hypocrisy”
As soon as the complaint became known, the Far-right President Javier Milei In his X account, he was quick to highlight the “progressive hypocrisy” and described the gender policies promoted by Fernández as a “scam.”
In his press conference on Friday, presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni pointed out the “millions of dollars spent by all Argentines“in policies such as the creation of the Ministry of Women, which was launched at the time by Fernández and dissolved by Milei in December.
For political analyst Marcos Novaro the situation benefits the ruling party: “He is trying to take full advantage of the revelation of the hypocrisies of progressivism and the moral miseries of his adversary obviously help the government.“, he told AFP.
“He always wanted or said he supported the gender issue and women and he did that at home“Lucinda Giles, a 26-year-old resident of the town of San Isidro, north of the country, told AFP. Buenos Aires. “It was a really horrible, disastrous government and the conclusion is that we had a bad person president.“, he added.
The complaint was a breath of fresh air for a government facing a delicate economic context, with inflation at 271% year-on-year and almost half of the population living in poverty.
The experienced deputy of the moderate opposition Miguel Ángel Pichetto considered in a radio interview this Friday that “Alberto Fernández’s situation is the most compelling explanation of why Milei governs Argentina” and accused the former president of having a “double standards”.
In his editorial column in the newspaper La Nación this Friday, journalist Claudio Jacquelín maintains that “If Milei came to power as the successful embodiment of an instrument of punishment for the leadership, the events that shake society today reinforce the validity of that premise.”.
However, Novaro warns that it is not convenient for the government to “to abuse this accusatory tone too much, because it also has its own miseries”.
“The abuse of power remains at the center of society’s concerns and this government is also prone to abuse of power, which it is showing above all in its aggressive behavior towards critics, journalists, and its own officials when it fires them in a very brutal way.“, he concludes.
“The darkest and most sordid aspects”
Criticism of Fernández also came from his own political space. His former vice president, Cristina Kirchner, wrote in X that, beyond the fact that Fernández “He was not a good president”, the images released reveal “another thing”.
“They reveal the most sordid and dark aspects of the human condition“, said the former president of Argentina between 2007 and 2015.
Novaro considers that Alberto Fernández “He was a political corpse before this scandal broke out, because society rejects him and Peronism itself, Kirchnerism in particular, has dedicated itself to placing all the responsibilities for a failed administration on him.”.
Kirchner was not the only one to point out the president, the feminist youth leader Ofelia Fernández called him “psychopath” and pointed at those who “They never believed a woman who reported it and now they want to get hooked on this”.
For his part, the social leader and presidential candidate in 2023, Juan Grabois, stated that he hopes “Let all the pots be uncovered” and called for a “purge“within the local centre-left field.
Source: Gestion
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