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Deputy Prime Minister horrified after posing with polygamist businessman in Niger
By h.b.
May 12, 2008 - 6:55 AM

The Deputy Prime Minister, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, has said that she is horrified to realise that she had posed for photographs with a polygamist businessman and his three wives in Niaymey, the capital of Niger, where she is on a visit. The Deputy Prime Minister thought the women were the man’s daughters and is ‘horrified’ to learn the truth, according to a Spanish government spokesman.

The incident happened at a tiger nut factory which employs 200 women, and which she visited with the Spanish businessman Ramón Carrión, who has been setting up businesses in Niger over the past 12 years.