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The charismatic former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern, who resigned in surprise almost a year ago and a few months after her party lost power, married her partner and father of her daughter, journalist Clarke Gayford, on Saturday in New Zealand.

The intimate wedding, which was delayed by two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic and was mostly attended by family members of the couple, took place in an intimate setting in the vineyards of Hawke's Bay in the northeast.

According to wedding photos, Ardern, 43, appeared at the ceremony in a long wedding dress and her husband, 47, in a black suit and tie and the two strolled through the estate's vineyards.

The couple has remained silent about the details of the wedding, but in a small country of 5 million people, the local media knew in advance the place and even the time of the wedding.

The couple, in the vineyards of Hawke's Bay.

A handful of anti-vaxxers gathered in the vicinity of the wedding to protest against the former president, whose government applied harsh restriction measures against the pandemic.

Ardern and Gayford had a daughter in 2018 and had planned to get married in 2022, but the pandemic derailed their plans.

The former president showed great empathy and determination in her management after the 2019 supremacist attack that caused 51 deaths in two mosques in Christchurch and later with the forceful measures during the covid-19 pandemic.

The media coined the term "jacindamania" to explain the wave of admiration caused among young people and citizens.

The restrictions made New Zealand one of the countries least affected by Covid-19, but they also negatively affected the economy and made it difficult for thousands of New Zealanders to return home.

On January 19, 2023, the former president surprisingly submitted her resignation by alleging exhaustion and at a time when her party, the Labour Party, had been falling in the polls for weeks.

In fact, the conservative National Party won last October's election and its leader, Christopher Luxon, became the prime minister at the head of a three-party coalition.

After leaving politics, Ardern started several programs at Harvard University's Kennedy School in the United States on leadership and extremism on the Internet.

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