Euro elections|Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French far-right, was the spiritual winner of the European elections, even though she herself was not a candidate for parliament. In 2016, he spoke about Vladimir Putin’s “feats” in an interview with HS.
Euro elections one of the biggest winners was the National Coalition representing the French far-right. The party is currently led by a 28-year-old Jordan Bardellabut its absolute protagonist is still a long-term right-wing politician Marine Le Pen.
Le Pen herself was not a candidate in the European elections, but the victory of the National Alliance will give wind to her possible candidacy in the French presidential elections in 2027.
HS met Le Pen in 2016, when she was still an MEP in the EU Parliament. Then Le Pen seemed to have only good things to say About the President of Russia About Vladimir Putin.
“I think Putin has managed to do a great job, no matter what one says about him. He has brought Russia back to the stage of nations,” he answered when HS asked him about his view of the autocratic president.
At the time of the interview Only two years had passed since the annexation of Crimea, and the EU had already started imposing sanctions on Russia.
In the interview, Le Pen said that in her opinion there was “no reason” for the sanctions. He considered the isolation of Russia “stupid”.
“The United States needed to separate Russia from Europe, and the European Union did not think about the interests of its own residents. It obeyed the United States and, in my opinion, made a mistake,” Le Pen told HS.
He also said that he himself had visited the Russian-occupied Crimea. In 2014, Russia held a staged referendum in the territory it seized from Ukraine, which justified the annexation of Crimea.
However, Le Pen did not doubt the outcome of the disputed referendum.
“After visiting Crimea, I know exactly that the people of Crimea wanted to rejoin Russia,” he said in an interview.
Screenshot of HS’s Le Pen interview from December 2016.
Le Pen has sought to tone down its positive stance on Russia since Russia launched its full-scale war of aggression in Ukraine. However, in the European elections, for example, there were at least two prominent supporters of modern Russia on the National Alliance’s electoral lists.
In addition to Le Pen, other party members have also visited Crimea giving their support to Russian power.
In 2020, for example, a member of parliament from the National Alliance Virginie Joron went to Crimea to “observe” the Russian referendum, which was used to promote Putin’s power. Joron characterized the referendum as a “historic event for Russians” and praised the citizens’ “lively participation”.
The national coalition also recently received a loan of nine million euros from a Czech-Russian bank. Le Pen defended the financing by saying that the party would not have received such a loan from any bank in France.
Far right the strengthening in the European elections was weaker than expected, but especially In France and Germany, right-wing parties reaped electoral victories.
In Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) increased its support and became the second largest party, passing the Chancellor By Olaf Scholz led by the SPD.
In France, the National Alliance won the election with about 32 percent of the vote. the president of France Emmanuel Macron The support of the Renaissance party was about half of this. Macron quickly drew conclusions from the result by announcing that he organizes early parliamentary elections in France.
In Russia, about the results of the European elections in Germany and France we rejoiced. The vice president of the country’s security council and the former president Dmitry Medvedev according to the election results reflected the “stupid” Ukraine policy of Macron and Scholz.
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