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Updated: 2001-07-05 01:00

Wedding Bells--Mexican President Vicente Fox Marries Press Spokeswoman Martha Sahagun (2001/07/06)
墨西哥总统福克斯与他的女发言人喜结连理 (2001/07/06)

In a surprise ceremony at the presidential residence, President Vicente Fox married his spokeswoman, Martha Sahagun, today.

Mexican President Vicente Fox kisses his bride Martha Sahagun during a private wedding ceremony Los Pinos, the presidential residence in Mexico City.

The two were married at Los Pinos at 7:30 a.m. local time, presidential spokesman Victor Suberza said. Videotapes released by the president's office showed the smiling couple signing a wedding register and kissing; the bride wore a white fitted suit.

The marriage, ending months of speculation about Fox's relationship with Sahagun, occurred less than two hours before Fox met Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar for an official welcoming ceremony at the National Palace in the center of Mexico City.

"Congratulations for the first year of democratic change, for your birthday, and they coincide with the fact that the president of the republic has gotten married this morning," Aznar said as Fox smiled. "Triple congratulations."

There were no immediate details about plans for a honeymoon. Presidential sources said Sahagun would step down as chief presidential spokeswoman, and would be replaced by Francisco Ortiz, who is Fox's public opinion and image coordinator.

Sahagun had worked in Fox's administration when he was governor of Guanajuato, and rumors that the two were personally close arose during Fox's successful 2000 presidential campaign, in which Sahagun headed his press team.

With that election, Fox ended 71 years of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Both Fox, 59, and Sahagun, 49, are divorced and Roman Catholic.

Within days of the July 2, 2000, election victory, the Mexico City newspaper El Economista cited "sources close to both of them" as saying that Fox had told his children he planned to marry Sahagun before his Dec. 1 inauguration.

But Fox's daughter Ana Cristina, who had been serving as first lady, denied the report and hinted at a dislike of Sahagun: "Mrs. Martha works with my father," she said at the time. "We aren't friends and that's it."

The rumors prompted a magazine then published by the Catholic archdiocese of Mexico City, Nuevo Criterio, to urge Fox to reunite with his former wife, Lillian de la Concha, whom he divorced in 1991 after a 20-year marriage.

On Dec. 28, Mexico's version of April Fool's Day, the newspaper La Prensa ran a spoof story saying that Fox would marry Sahagun on Valentine's Day.

Sahagun ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Celaya, a central Mexican city in Fox's home state of Guanajuato. She obtained a certificate in teaching English in Dublin, Ireland.

Fox married his first wife in 1971, and the two adopted four children. In his autobiography, Fox wrote that the two gradually grew apart. But he added, "to the day, we maintain a good relationship because of what we most care about in the world: our children.

"Since I started my fight to reach the presidency I was constantly asked what I would do about the first lady, and they even invent romances for me.

"But I am completely immersed and devoted to my four children and my duties in politics; that consumes me 24 hours a day. I soundly reject it when they say a president needs to be married."

(Agencies)

7月2日在墨西哥总统官邸举行了一个让人颇感意外的婚礼,墨西哥总统福克斯和他的女发言人玛尔塔·萨哈冈正式结为夫妻。

总统的另一位发言人维克多-苏伯查说,两人于当地时间早晨七点半在洛斯皮诺斯登记结婚。总统办公室提供的录像带上显示,新人面带笑容,在结婚登记处登记,并互相亲吻。新娘身着白色套装。

两人的结合为数月来有关他俩的种种揣测划上了句号。婚礼过后不到两个小时,福克斯就在墨西哥城中心的国家宫主持仪式,欢迎来访的西班牙总理胡塞-阿兹纳尔。

阿兹纳尔恭贺福克斯三喜临门:福克斯当选总统以来墨西哥在民主方面取得的巨大进步、福克斯的生日以及婚礼。福克斯对此露出了会心的微笑。

目前还不知道福克斯夫妇新婚蜜月的计划。但总统府的消息认为,萨哈冈将辞去总统第一发言人的职务,由总统公共舆论和形象协调人奥提兹接任。

萨哈冈在福克斯还是瓜那加托州长时,就同福克斯共事。福克斯去年竞选总统时,她是竞选新闻小组的负责人,二人关系不寻常的传闻也从那时开始流传。

由墨西哥国家行动党和"绿党"组成的"变革联盟"领导人福克斯在总统大选中获胜,结束了墨西哥革命制度党长达71年的执政历史。

福克斯现年59岁,萨哈冈49岁。两人均曾离异并同是罗马天主教徒。

2000年7月2日福克斯赢得大选后才几天,墨西哥城一家叫做《 El Economista 》的杂志就引述了一些内部消息说,福克斯对自己的子女讲他计划在2000年12月1日就职前和萨哈冈结婚。

曾代任第一夫人的福克斯的女儿安娜-克利斯蒂娜否认了这一报道,并流露出对萨哈冈嫌恶的态度。 她当时说:"萨哈冈女士和我爸爸是同事,而我们并不是朋友,如此而已。"

墨西哥城天主教的一份杂志甚至要求福克斯同已经离异的妻子努沃-克瑞特里奥再度结合。两人在结婚20年后于1991年离婚。

去年12月28日,墨西哥愚人节的那天,更有一份报纸刊登了开玩笑的文章说福克斯将在情人节那天和萨哈冈结婚。

萨哈冈曾竞选墨西哥中部城市赛拉雅市(位于福克斯家乡所在的瓜那加托州)市长,但没有成功。她还曾在爱尔兰都柏林获得过教授英语的证书。

福克斯在1971年和前妻结婚,两人领养了4个孩子。在他的自传里,福克斯写到:"两人关系渐渐疏远,不过,直到今天,我们仍然维持着不错的关系,因为我们彼此都把孩子当作是这个世界上最值得关注的事情。"

"当我参加总统竞选的时候,常被人问起如何解决第一夫人的问题。甚至有人为我牵线搭桥。"

"不过我全身心都投入到自己的4个子女身上和所肩负的政务中,每天24小时的时间简直不够用。所以每每有人对我说'总统应该有个贤内助'的时候,我都断然拒绝了。"

(中国日报网站译)

 
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