The LR presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse castigated Saturday in front of a landing beach in Normandy the candidates for the Elysée “who defended” Russia, judging them “discredited to govern France”. “There are candidates today in this election who have defended Russia’s position, who have aligned themselves with its positions, who are financed by Russian interests. There have been very strong statements in favor of Mr. (Vladimir) Poutine from a Jean-Luc Mélenchon, an Eric Zemmour, a Marine Le Pen”, continued Valérie Pécresse.
“War is upon us”
“I believe that today it really discredits them for governing France”, added the candidate, who was speaking in Courseulles-sur-mer (Calvados) at the foot of an 18-meter-high cross of Lorraine facing at Juno Beach. This monument commemorates the landing of General du Gaulle on French soil, at this place on June 14, 1944. “To speak of resistance, to speak of Free France, it is symbolic today”, she also said, making reference to Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
“Today, what we need is a free France and I choose this free France, this upright France, this France of General de Gaulle”, continued the president of the Ile-de-de-France region. France. She defended a “France which clearly chooses its allies, which chooses as an ally the United States, which is not a vassal of the United States, but which is an ally of the United States and which is certainly not an ally of Mr. Putin and Russia”. “War is at our doorstep on the European continent and in the face of this explosion which affects us all, I believe that during this trip to Normandy, it was important for me to come and remind you that I am defending a Gaullist France”, he said. -she adds.
“A turning point in the campaign”
During a meeting in Caen, she then added: “Today we are at a turning point in the campaign because today it’s ‘low the masks’. Like you, I heard Marine Le Pen us to say, I quote ‘Mr. Putin carries, through the policy carried out in Russia, the program that we want for France'”. “I heard Eric Zemmour tell us ‘I would dream of a French Poutine’ (…). Shame on them!”, She hammered.
“All presidential candidates who profess boundless admiration for Mr. Putin, whether Mr. Mélenchon, Mrs. Le Pen, Mr. Zemmour, all those who have accepted Russian funding, are disqualified ( …) to preside over France”, she insisted in front of around 700 people.
Valérie Pécresse has been freed from a burden since the announcement on Friday of the resignation of former Prime Minister François Fillon from his Russian mandates on the boards of directors of the petrochemical giant Sibur and Zarubezhneft, a company specializing in hydrocarbons.