an hour agoGermany, Portugal and Spain openly appeal to the French: Vote Macron
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)The leaders of Germany, Portugal and Spain have called on the French on Thursday to support the current president, Emmanuel Macron, in his race against the far-right leader, Marine le Pen, who is an unusual intervention in domestic policy against a European Union member state, writes AFP, Perskopi follows. [...]
The leaders of Germany, Portugal and Spain have called on the French on Thursday to support the current president, Emmanuel Macron, in his race against the far-right leader, Marine le Pen, who is an unusual intervention in domestic policy against a European Union member state, writes AFP, Perskopi follows.
The second round to be held Sunday “is not the usual round”, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa and Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, have written in the daily Le Monde.
France faces “between a democratic candidate and an extreme right candidate, which opened up its ranks on their list of attacking our freedom and democracy”, they have indicated.
They expressed their wish that the French will choose for a France that has been “pitar of democracy”.
The three leaders said populists and figures of the far right in Europe have turned Russian President Vladimir Putin, like “an ideological and political model, and have echoed his nationalist claims”.
Le Pen had met Putin in the Kremlin in 2017 and had accepted the annexation of the Crimea from Russia in 2014, while her party also received a loan from a Russian-ceke bank.
