The ecologist candidate has called on Sunday Valérie Pécresse to “desolate” François Fillon, a member of the board of directors of the Russian petrochemical giant Sibur since December.
Le Monde with AFP
Guest to radio microphone J Sunday 13 February, Yannick Jadot denounced the “complacency” of some candidates for the presidential election towards Moscow and called the Contender LR, Valérie Pécresse, to “clarify his relations” with one of his supporters, François Fillon, a member of the Council of Administration of the Russian Petrochemical Giant Sibur since December as well as the Russian public society of the sector, Zaroubejneft. “It’s dramatic, a former Prime Minister of France and as much complacency, unusual, and interest with dictators,” said Jadot.
“I did not hear Valérie Pécresse denounce the complacency, the complicity of François Fillon and other leaders” to Russian President, Vladimir Putin, he said
The disappointed candidate of the 2017 presidential election François Fillon, with which Valérie Pécresse took in recent weeks campaign councils, was present at the first major meeting of the candidate this Sunday in Paris.
He denounces the “admiration” of the extreme right for Putin
Yannick Jadot also targeted his other competitors, questioning the “admiration” of the extreme right candidates Éric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen, or “in a very different mode” of the complacency of the candidate of the left Radical Jean-Luc Mélenchon with regard to Vladimir Putin, then “at the same time, they [these candidates] are rather on the withdrawal of the European Union or the weakening of the European Union”. The latter advocates a “non-aligned” policy towards Russia and district NATO rather on the Ukranian file.
According to him, there is also an “ambiguity of the German socialists vis-à-vis [from the pipeline] North Stream 2 because Gerhard Schröder has always been the ambassador of the Russians and Russian interests in this case”. He also called for the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, desolate on this topic “by Gerhard Schröder”. The former German Chancellor is a long-standing friend of Vladimir Putin and is Chairman of the Rosneft Business Board since 2017.
Yannick Jadot believes that “the defense of the values of the EU, democracies and countries must be guaranteed that we must protect, and not according to the Russian interests vis-à-vis which certain French politicians are too complacent “.
In recent days, Emmanuel Macron has tried with Germany a mediation in tensions around Ukraine who have exacerbated themselves. Washington insists on the risk of an invasion “imminent” of Ukraine by Russia, which denies and accuses the United States of “hysteria” and says making fun of economic sanctions.