The Ukrainian crisis invites itself into the French presidential campaign. Valérie Pécresse met this Wednesday February 23 the ambassador of Ukraine. An attempt for candidate LR, struggling in the polls, to reboost her campaign.
Leaving the Ukrainian Embassy, after 30 minutes of diplomatic talks, Valérie Pécresse puts on her presidential clothes in search of the right tone to speak internationally. “ The ambassador told me of his very great concern. So I obviously reassured him of the support of France. »
Valérie Pécresse as a stateswoman, at the height of international issues. She too would have started by talking with Vladimir Putin and therefore joins the position of Emmanuel Macron.
” The President of the Republic does not want to be blamed because he has dialogued but today we must put in place sanctions and tell Vladimir Putin “now it’s stop”, believes the candidate LR.
Pécresse deplores the behavior of certain candidates
Valérie Pécresse also takes the opportunity to attack the candidates who do not frankly condemn, like her, the Russian president. In his viewfinder, Marine Le Pen, but above all the one who competes the most in the polls, Eric Zemmour, who recently stated that “ Vladimir Putin only defends his interests “. “ For me, being aligned with Putin’s positions is not standing France, it’s not Gaullist France, it’s a France on its knees “, she pointed out.
Behind this meeting with the Ukrainian ambassador, a goal for Valérie Pécresse: to remind the right-wing electorate that in the presidential match, she is the strongest candidate against Emmanuel Macron.
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