The president-candidate Emmanuel Macron described Wednesday on TF1 as “unfounded” and “scandalous” the criticisms of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on his telephone conversations with Vladimir Putin concerning the war in ukraine. “These remarks are both unfounded and scandalous, but they do not surprise me” because Mateusz Morawiecki, who is “from an extreme right-wing party”, “interferes in the French political campaign” after having “several once received Madame (Marine) Le Pen”, the candidate of the National Rally that he “supports”, declared the president-candidate.
“We do not debate with criminals”, had launched the Polish Prime Minister
“Mr President Macron, how many times have you negotiated with Putin, what have you obtained? We don’t debate, we don’t negotiate with criminals, criminals must be fought,” said the Polish Prime Minister on Monday. , a member of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party in Warsaw. “No one negotiated with Hitler. Would you negotiate with Hitler, with Stalin, with Pol Pot”, he added, accusing certain European leaders of “procrastination” and “wooden language”.
“I fully assume having constantly, in the name of France, spoken to the President of Russia to avoid war and build a new architecture of peace in Europe several years ago”, replied Emmanuel Macron, who has spoken with the Russian president on numerous occasions since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army on February 24.
Macron highlights the quest for a ceasefire with Russia
“I did it from the start of my mandate” and “I was never naive, unlike others, I was never complicit, unlike others”, he added , while many leaders of the majority question the links of Marine Le Pen with the master of the Kremlin.
“I have always worked to talk with Russia” and “I have constantly discussed to obtain a ceasefire, a humanitarian truce, as moreover Chancellor (Olaf) Scholz in Germany does or other heads of State and government in Europe. I think it is my duty, it is without complacency and without naivety”, he continued, also insisting on the sanctions taken against Moscow.