Argentina's ex-president Alberto Fernandez was accused of punching and causing of injuries under aggravating circumstances of his former partner Fabiola Yanez, BTA reported.
Last week, Yanez, who is 43, filed a complaint against Fernandez, who is 65. They lived together for ten years.
After filing the complaint, the former president could not leave the country.
Fernandez was in charge of Argentina from 2019 to 2023
Fabiola Yanez currently lives in Spain.
On Tuesday, Argentina's former first lady was heard in connection with her appeal by a magistrate in Buenos Aires. She spoke to him via video conference from Madrid, where she lives with her son, who she gave birth to in 2022 with Fernandez.
In written testimony before this hearing, she says that she was subjected to harassment, to mockery, to aggression, to blows, to humiliations that were constant. She was also a victim of verbal abuse almost daily.
Alberto Fernandez denies these allegations and promises to present evidence to support his innocence. He says he has never hit a woman in his life.
The revelations scandalized the Argentine public. Ultraliberal President Javier Millay criticized the "progressive hypocrisy of the Peronists" and claimed that Fernandez, who presented himself as a defender of feminism, hit his wife.