法國總統奧朗德宣佈與第一女友瓦萊麗分手
在被爆出與女演員加耶的緋聞消息兩週後，奧朗德於25日宣佈與現任女友瓦萊麗分手，成爲當天法國媒體的頭版新聞。
因爲涉及私生活，25日傍晚18點50分，奧朗德以個人名義而不是以國家元首的名義，通過電話對法新社表示：“我已經結束了與瓦萊麗·特里耶韋萊一起的共同生活。”當天，瓦萊麗也在自己的個人推特上寫下這樣一句話“感謝愛麗捨宮那位特殊的人。我將不會忘記他的付出，也不會忘記離開時的感受。”
在14日召開的例行記者會上，奧朗德曾承認與瓦萊麗的關係正經歷“痛苦時刻”，並表示會在2月11日出訪美國前就他與瓦萊麗的關係問題做出澄清。奧朗德20日出訪荷蘭時身邊沒有瓦萊麗，在24、25日奧朗德對梵蒂岡訪問時仍然只有內政部長瓦爾斯陪同。瓦萊麗的發言人24日宣佈，瓦萊麗即將在26、27日兩天在印度孟買出席一場抗擊飢餓的慈善活動，也將是一人前往，法國媒體據此猜測總統奧朗德與其女友的關係可能已進入了“倒計時”。
據白宮證實，奧朗德將獨自踏上前往美國的訪問之旅。另外據愛麗捨宮的消息，奧朗德目前還不打算讓加耶成爲自己的正式伴侶和第一夫人，他準備獨自居住在愛麗捨宮。
President François Hollande tonight announced his separation from the First Lady Valérie Trierweiler in a curt personal statement.
In a telephone call to the French news agency, Mr Hollande, said: “I am letting it be known that I have put an end to the life I shared with Valérie Trierweiler.”
Ms Trierweiler, 48, refused to add her own name to the declaration, to make it clear that the decision to sever their unmarried partnership was Mr Hollande’s alone.
The announcement came just over two weeks after Closer magazine revealed that President Hollande was having an affair with the 41 years old actress, Julie Gayet.
Mr Hollande telephoned the statement to Agence France Presse himself – just 18 words in French – in an attempt to make a distinction between François Hollande, the head of state and François Hollande, the private citizen.
It was his way of saying that he expects no further intrusions into his private life. Global interest in the President’s nocturnal, scooter-borne escapades is unlikely to subside so easily – as Mr Hollande will discover when he visits Britain on Friday for the annual Anglo-French summit.
Mr Hollande had promised to “clarify” the position of his unmarried First Lady before 9 February when the couple were scheduled to fly to Washington to visit the Obamas.
Mr Hollande may have felt that he could delay no longer after Ms Trierweiler, 48, let it be known that she intended to fly to India on a humanitarian visit tomorrow. Although the trip is privately funded, Ms Trierweiler would, in effect, have been travelling to Bombay with the informal status of Première Dame or First Lady.
She will now travel as a private citizen, but her first public appearance since the scandal broke is likely to be anything but private.
Friends of Ms Trierweiler have told the French press that she is making the trip as a “gesture of defiance”.
President Hollande is the second French head of state in succession to suffer a conjugal break-up whilst in office. His predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, was divorced by his second wife Cécilia five months after he became President in October 2007.
The website of the newspaper Le Parisien – which has accurately chronicled Ms Trierweiler’s moods and movements since the scandal broke – said that President Hollande had informed Ms Trierweiler of his decision over a lunch last Thursday. “She accepts his decision but she is allowing him to take sole responsibility,” a friend of the soon-to-be ex-First Lady told the newspaper.
President Hollande will make the trip to the United States alone, the White House confirmed last night. He is also due to visit Turkey on Monday and to fly to Britain for the annual Franco-British summit with David Cameron at the end of next week.
Elysée Palace sources have indicated in recent days that he has no intention at this stage of making the actress Julie Gayet his official partner and First Lady. He plans, the sources say, to live in the Elysée alone.
It is understood that Ms Trierweiler left the presidential retreat at Versailles, La Lanterne, this afternoon, in effect ending her seven year unmarried partnership with Mr Hollande. She returned to the flat in the 15th arrondissement of Paris which she and Mr Hollande shared before he was elected in 2012 and where they continued to live until they moved into the Elysée last summer.
Ms Trierweiler had been “resting” at the mansion in Versailles since last weekend. Previously, she had spent eight days in hospital suffering from an “acute case of the blues” following the exposure of Mr Hollande’s affair.
