Posted30 June 2022, 11:15
Alongside the husband of Xavier Bettel, the companion of the Slovak president posed with all the other spouses of heads of state and government on Wednesday in Madrid.
Juraj Rizman and Gauthier Destenay in the official photo.
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In 2017, it was a bit a revolution: Gauthier Destenay posed for the first time with all the first ladies of the rulers of NATO member countries. A strong signal sent to intolerance. Today, while the place and the body of the woman are at the heart of the debates since the revocation of the right to abortion at the federal level in the United States, the presence of the companion of the Slovak president in the photo of the spouses in is another addressed to misogyny.
The NATO summit in 2017.
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Juraj Rizman, like Gauthier Destenay, was welcomed by Queen Letizia of Spain at the Royal Palace of La Granja in San Ildefonso.
All these little people visited the gardens and the Royal Crystal Factory then, back to Madrid by AVE, the Spanish TGV, were able to admire “Guernica”, the famous painting by Picasso, at the Reina Sofia museum (photo at the top of the ‘article).
Spain’s Letizia will continue to act as a tour guide as she takes guests on a tour of the Royal Theater in Madrid this Thursday.
Note that if Gauthier Destenay is undoubtedly delighted to have a male presence at his side, he was probably also happy to find Brigitte Macron with whom he has a “close” relationship, he had confided to The essential. For his part, questioned by Paris Matchthe wife of the French president had not hidden that the husband of Xavier Bettel was “his favorite”.
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