Fernández says he does not want “the media lynching” to which he is “being subjected to hurt this party”
Former Argentine President Alberto Fernández has formalized his resignation as national leader of the Argentine Justicialist Party this Wednesday after being formally charged with alleged crimes of “serious injuries doubly aggravated” and “coercive threats” against former first lady Fabiola Yáñez.
“In the framework of the complaint for alleged gender violence based on which I am being investigated in the Federal Court, I come to submit my irrevocable resignation from the position of president of the Justicialist Party at the national level with which I was opportunely honored,” he said in a letter sent to the National Federal Council of the Justicialist Party and reported by the newspaper ‘Clarín’.
Fernández has indicated that he has “the duty and the need to state” that he has taken this decision “with the sole purpose of not involving the party in which he has always” been a member with “the acts that he is falsely” accused of. “I hope that no splinter of the media lynching to which I am being subjected can hurt this party in which men and women who have done so much for gender equality and respect for diversity are members,” he said.
Thus, he has emphasized that the facts that are imputed to him “are false,” while he has pointed out that he hopes “that Justice acts as such, stops irregularly releasing data through the media” and allows him “to exercise the legitimate right to defense.” “With my soul hurt by so much mockery and being the victim of a cruel operation
