Marine Le Pen lamented on Tuesday that Emmanuel Macron “made communication” in his talks with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine. He “wanted to use a diplomatic success to enter the campaign,” she said on RTL.
“I saw photos of Emmanuel Macron unshaven, his head in his hands, it’s all very artistic, but it’s not serious to communicate on these subjects,” lambasted the candidate. from the National Rally (RN) to the Elysée.
“This is the reason why, because of this failure, he is postponing his entry into the campaign (…)”, she added. “We even wondered if he was really President of the Republic in this sequence or if he was trying to be a Nobel Peace Prize”. She mocks “communication all the time, in all circumstances”.
On France Inter, the president of the LREM group in the National Assembly, Christophe Castaner, deplored that “President Putin broke all the commitments he had made”. And in particular that of participating in a summit with President Joe Biden, as the Elysée had announced on the night of Sunday to Monday.
“To reduce this to Emmanuel Macron is to have very national aims. We are on a subject that goes well beyond Emmanuel Macron”, he replied to Marine Le Pen by radio interposed, recalling that the Head of State currently holds the EU Presidency for six months.