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In a surprise ceremony at the presidential residence, President Vicente Fox married his spokeswoman, Martha Sahagun, today.
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| 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)
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7月2日在墨西哥總統官邸舉行了一個讓人頗感意外的婚禮，墨西哥總統福克斯和他的女發言人瑪爾塔·薩哈岡正式結為夫妻。
總統的另一位發言人維克多-蘇伯查說，兩人于當地時間早晨七點半在洛斯皮諾斯登記結婚。總統辦公室提供的錄像帶上顯示，新人面帶笑容，在結婚登記處登記，并互相親吻。新娘身著白色套裝。
兩人的結合為數月來有關他倆的種種揣測劃上了句號。婚禮過后不到兩個小時，福克斯就在墨西哥城中心的國家宮主持儀式，歡迎來訪的西班牙總理胡塞-阿茲納爾。
阿茲納爾恭賀福克斯三喜臨門：福克斯當選總統以來墨西哥在民主方面取得的巨大進步、福克斯的生日以及婚禮。福克斯對此露出了會心的微笑。
目前還不知道福克斯夫婦新婚蜜月的計劃。但總統府的消息認為，薩哈岡將辭去總統第一發言人的職務，由總統公共輿論和形象協調人奧提茲接任。
薩哈岡在福克斯還是瓜那加托州長時，就同福克斯共事。福克斯去年競選總統時，她是競選新聞小組的負責人，二人關系不尋常的傳聞也從那時開始流傳。
由墨西哥國家行動黨和"綠黨"組成的"變革聯盟"領導人福克斯在總統大選中獲勝，結束了墨西哥革命制度黨長達７１年的執政歷史。
福克斯現年59歲，薩哈岡49歲。兩人均曾離異并同是羅馬天主教徒。
2000年7月2日福克斯贏得大選后才幾天，墨西哥城一家叫做《 El Economista 》的雜志就引述了一些內部消息說，福克斯對自己的子女講他計劃在2000年12月1日就職前和薩哈岡結婚。
曾代任第一夫人的福克斯的女兒安娜-克利斯蒂娜否認了這一報道，并流露出對薩哈岡嫌惡的態度。 她當時說："薩哈岡女士和我爸爸是同事，而我們并不是朋友，如此而已。"
墨西哥城天主教的一份雜志甚至要求福克斯同已經離異的妻子努沃-克瑞特里奧再度結合。兩人在結婚20年后于1991年離婚。
去年12月28日，墨西哥愚人節的那天，更有一份報紙刊登了開玩笑的文章說福克斯將在情人節那天和薩哈岡結婚。
薩哈岡曾競選墨西哥中部城市賽拉雅市（位于福克斯家鄉所在的瓜那加托州）市長，但沒有成功。她還曾在愛爾蘭都柏林獲得過教授英語的證書。
福克斯在1971年和前妻結婚，兩人領養了4個孩子。在他的自傳里，福克斯寫到："兩人關系漸漸疏遠，不過，直到今天，我們仍然維持著不錯的關系，因為我們彼此都把孩子當作是這個世界上最值得關注的事情。"
"當我參加總統競選的時候，常被人問起如何解決第一夫人的問題。甚至有人為我牽線搭橋。"
"不過我全身心都投入到自己的4個子女身上和所肩負的政務中，每天24小時的時間簡直不夠用。所以每每有人對我說'總統應該有個賢內助'的時候，我都斷然拒絕了。"
(中國日報網站譯)
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Updated: 2001-07-05 01:00
