Batu Kawan MP Kasthuri Patto marries French boyfriend

 

Kasthuri Patto and her husband, Alain Morvan, at the National Registration Department in Putrajaya yesterday after the registration of their marriage. (Kasthuri Patto pic)

GEORGE TOWN: Batu Kawan MP Kasthuri Patto got hitched to her French boyfriend Alain Morvan in a civil marriage at the National Registration Department in Putrajaya yesterday.

In a ceremony attended by about 30 people, the couple professed their vows before the registrar at 11am, witnessed by her mother, S Mary, 73, and sister Shaalini, 41, and other family members.

Also present were DAP’s Lim Kit Siang, Ramkarpal Singh and French ambassador to Malaysia Roland Galharague.

Kasthuri, 43, said she first met Morvan, 51, a Brittany native, at the European Parliament in Belgium in February 2019 during an anti-death penalty congress.

“We met each other very often and realised that we had very similar values. Before we left to our hometowns, we felt there was a strong connection,” she told FMT.

Kasthuri said Morvan was an anti-death penalty advocate, besides being a journalists’ rights activist after being a former reporter for 25 years.

“He is a good man. At his core, he is a death penalty abolitionist and one who cares for the environment and human rights.”

She said Morvan had been visiting her regularly and she had also gone to France when possible.

Kasthuri said despite France being on Malaysia’s travel blacklist at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown, they had met on the sidelines of events held outside of France.

“At one point, we did not meet for more than a year at the height of the pandemic,” she said.

Kasthuri said they would go through a Catholic marriage preparation course on Monday, with a church wedding slated for late this year.

She said they would continue to visit each other from time to time. - FMT