MEXICO CITY: It was once a ravishing marriage ceremony, officiated by way of an archbishop, with fashion designer attire, palatial decorations and an enormous convention-center reception. But for Mexico's austerity-minded president-elect, it was once most probably the ultimate symbol on the earth he wanted one in all his closest advisers projecting, and it quickly drew grievance.
The beaming newlyweds, Cesar Yanez and Dulce Silva, landed at the cover of the society magazine "Hola!" — and so did President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who attended the nuptials and gave the impression to be out of place and perhaps uncomfortable.
With good explanation why: Lopez Obrador has prescribed a policy of "republican austerity" for the federal government after he is taking place of job on December 1 as an antidote to decades of corruption and high-living politicians who've disgusted moderate Mexicans, a promise that helped win him a crushing victory in the July 1 elections.
"There can't be a rich government in a poor country," Lopez Obrador is fond of claiming.
The past due September nuptials and 19-page shiny photo spread in Hola! drew standard grievance this week from those that stated it had little in sort with the image of a man who has pledged to halve his presidential wage, flies tourist class, refuses secret carrier main points and prefers pressing the flesh with small-town farmers and consuming affordable foods at local restaurants.
Lopez Obrador has not too long ago taken to the usage of the phrase "fifi" to disregard issues as opulent, frivolous or out-of-touch with the folks. But on social media, many opined that nothing fits the definition higher than the tuxedo-drenched bash.
"It is now prohibited for coming administrations, and forever, to use the word `fifi,"' newspaper columnist Genaro Lozano stated in tweeting the Hola! cover tale.
The marriage ceremony of Yanez, a soft-spoken, ever-present shadow to Lopez Obrador for greater than twenty years, and Silva, who was once born into a rich trade circle of relatives, illustrates the difficulty of weaning Mexico's political class from its long-standing love of luxurious.
It is a love affair that is going again to the days after the 1910-1917 Revolution, when the wealthy have been vilified and officials cracked down at the Roman Catholic Church — whilst secretly sending their kids to catholic faculties, marrying into society households and construction themselves neo-baroque mansions in posh neighborhoods.
In recent years, lavish houses and glittering wristwatches had been the favorite calling cards of the political elite. Ironically, it was once Hola! that inadvertently delivered to mild the worst corruption scandal of recent occasions.
In 2013 it printed a gushing photo spread of first woman Angelica Rivera — wife of current President Enrique Pena Nieto — posing in a sumptuous, all-white mansion. It became out she was once purchasing the mansion from a favored govt contractor; she was once later compelled to present it up.
"It is terrible," Guadalupe Loaeza, a Lopez Obrador supporter who has written books in regards to the foibles of Mexico's upper class, stated of the wedding photos. "What Hola! Magazine published today is the same as (Angelica Rivera's) white house, the same magazine, the same scandal."
Loaeza estimated the wedding price over $250,000 and stated the outrage was once worse amongst people who had supported Lopez Obrador: "They offered us a different country ... they insulted us with this."
It may well be laborious to change issues: Right as much as the end — the crushing defeat of Pena Nieto's PRI birthday party in July — PRI politicians preferred wristwatches from Rolex and Patek Philippe, models that price tens of 1000's of dollars in a country where the typical employee earns not up to $10 per day.
Politicians wearing that kind of bling "show the evident contradictions between what public servants earn and the value of the watches," Morena lawmaker Mario Delgado stated in July. "They are like a symbol of corruption."
So it was once all of the extra surprising when Yanez confirmed up that same month at one in all his boss's information conferences wearing what appraisers — based on a photograph — stated was once a Rolex price perhaps $15,000.
Asked about it, Yanez stated moderately sheepishly that it was once a present from his soon-to-be-wife, a businesswoman whom he had as soon as tried to help in a broom with the regulation.
"It's something personal," Yanez stated at the time. "I have been austere like you have no idea."
Yanez may just now not in an instant be reached for comment in regards to the marriage ceremony — he was once it appears on his honeymoon — and plenty of advised that the bride's circle of relatives had paid for most of it.
Lopez Obrador, for his section, pushed again Thursday at the grievance, saying that it was once a private, social tournament fairly than one subsidized by way of the federal government.
"I wasn't the one who got married. I was invited, I attended, every individual is responsible for their actions," the president-elect stated. He denied any destructive mirrored image on his austerity guarantees and attributed the grievance to combatants who "are looking for any possible mistake to criticize us."
Much of Lopez Obrador's long run Cabinet, through which Yanez has been picked to play a second-tier position as one of those community contact coordinator, has been working without pay all through the five-month transition duration.
And legislators from Lopez Obrador's Morena birthday party have significantly taken the austerity challenge to heart. Soon after taking keep an eye on of congress, they slashed luxurious team of workers budgets that gave legislators automobiles, journeys, cash and endless loose buffets, and even introduced a Twitter marketing campaign dubbed "Tupperware challenge" appearing them bringing packed lunches from home.
Soon later on Morena reinstated a fruit-and-cookie carrier as a result of legislators demanded it.
Most in Lopez Obrador's internal circle say ostentatious displays of wealth by way of politicians are a relic of the previous, they usually hope that can spill over into the trade elite.
"We are going to get rid of all the excesses," stated Alfonso Romo, a trade rich person himself who has been tapped to be Lopez Obrador's chief of personnel. "The party is over. We have to invest everything we have, to extricate Mexico from poverty."
The beaming newlyweds, Cesar Yanez and Dulce Silva, landed at the cover of the society magazine "Hola!" — and so did President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who attended the nuptials and gave the impression to be out of place and perhaps uncomfortable.
With good explanation why: Lopez Obrador has prescribed a policy of "republican austerity" for the federal government after he is taking place of job on December 1 as an antidote to decades of corruption and high-living politicians who've disgusted moderate Mexicans, a promise that helped win him a crushing victory in the July 1 elections.
"There can't be a rich government in a poor country," Lopez Obrador is fond of claiming.
The past due September nuptials and 19-page shiny photo spread in Hola! drew standard grievance this week from those that stated it had little in sort with the image of a man who has pledged to halve his presidential wage, flies tourist class, refuses secret carrier main points and prefers pressing the flesh with small-town farmers and consuming affordable foods at local restaurants.
Lopez Obrador has not too long ago taken to the usage of the phrase "fifi" to disregard issues as opulent, frivolous or out-of-touch with the folks. But on social media, many opined that nothing fits the definition higher than the tuxedo-drenched bash.
"It is now prohibited for coming administrations, and forever, to use the word `fifi,"' newspaper columnist Genaro Lozano stated in tweeting the Hola! cover tale.
The marriage ceremony of Yanez, a soft-spoken, ever-present shadow to Lopez Obrador for greater than twenty years, and Silva, who was once born into a rich trade circle of relatives, illustrates the difficulty of weaning Mexico's political class from its long-standing love of luxurious.
It is a love affair that is going again to the days after the 1910-1917 Revolution, when the wealthy have been vilified and officials cracked down at the Roman Catholic Church — whilst secretly sending their kids to catholic faculties, marrying into society households and construction themselves neo-baroque mansions in posh neighborhoods.
In recent years, lavish houses and glittering wristwatches had been the favorite calling cards of the political elite. Ironically, it was once Hola! that inadvertently delivered to mild the worst corruption scandal of recent occasions.
In 2013 it printed a gushing photo spread of first woman Angelica Rivera — wife of current President Enrique Pena Nieto — posing in a sumptuous, all-white mansion. It became out she was once purchasing the mansion from a favored govt contractor; she was once later compelled to present it up.
"It is terrible," Guadalupe Loaeza, a Lopez Obrador supporter who has written books in regards to the foibles of Mexico's upper class, stated of the wedding photos. "What Hola! Magazine published today is the same as (Angelica Rivera's) white house, the same magazine, the same scandal."
Loaeza estimated the wedding price over $250,000 and stated the outrage was once worse amongst people who had supported Lopez Obrador: "They offered us a different country ... they insulted us with this."
It may well be laborious to change issues: Right as much as the end — the crushing defeat of Pena Nieto's PRI birthday party in July — PRI politicians preferred wristwatches from Rolex and Patek Philippe, models that price tens of 1000's of dollars in a country where the typical employee earns not up to $10 per day.
Politicians wearing that kind of bling "show the evident contradictions between what public servants earn and the value of the watches," Morena lawmaker Mario Delgado stated in July. "They are like a symbol of corruption."
So it was once all of the extra surprising when Yanez confirmed up that same month at one in all his boss's information conferences wearing what appraisers — based on a photograph — stated was once a Rolex price perhaps $15,000.
Asked about it, Yanez stated moderately sheepishly that it was once a present from his soon-to-be-wife, a businesswoman whom he had as soon as tried to help in a broom with the regulation.
"It's something personal," Yanez stated at the time. "I have been austere like you have no idea."
Yanez may just now not in an instant be reached for comment in regards to the marriage ceremony — he was once it appears on his honeymoon — and plenty of advised that the bride's circle of relatives had paid for most of it.
Lopez Obrador, for his section, pushed again Thursday at the grievance, saying that it was once a private, social tournament fairly than one subsidized by way of the federal government.
"I wasn't the one who got married. I was invited, I attended, every individual is responsible for their actions," the president-elect stated. He denied any destructive mirrored image on his austerity guarantees and attributed the grievance to combatants who "are looking for any possible mistake to criticize us."
Much of Lopez Obrador's long run Cabinet, through which Yanez has been picked to play a second-tier position as one of those community contact coordinator, has been working without pay all through the five-month transition duration.
And legislators from Lopez Obrador's Morena birthday party have significantly taken the austerity challenge to heart. Soon after taking keep an eye on of congress, they slashed luxurious team of workers budgets that gave legislators automobiles, journeys, cash and endless loose buffets, and even introduced a Twitter marketing campaign dubbed "Tupperware challenge" appearing them bringing packed lunches from home.
Soon later on Morena reinstated a fruit-and-cookie carrier as a result of legislators demanded it.
Most in Lopez Obrador's internal circle say ostentatious displays of wealth by way of politicians are a relic of the previous, they usually hope that can spill over into the trade elite.
"We are going to get rid of all the excesses," stated Alfonso Romo, a trade rich person himself who has been tapped to be Lopez Obrador's chief of personnel. "The party is over. We have to invest everything we have, to extricate Mexico from poverty."
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