The Republicans candidate at the Elysée, for whom “do not be afraid of changing captain,” Sunday criticized the diplomacy conducted by the Head of State in recent months.
Le Monde
Valérie Pécresse sought, Sunday, March 13, to make another point of view in the field of Ukrainian politics in France. The candidate of the Republicans in the presidential election called the French to exceed, in the first round of the presidential election on 10 April, the “legitimate reflex” encouraged, according to her, by the Russian threat to the borders of the European Union, and Favorable de facto to Emmanuel Macron.
Invited from the “Great Appointment” of Europe 1, the Echos and CNEWS , Valérie Pécresse reported in particular a “shift” between the summit of European leaders in Versailles, March 10 and 11, and the expectations of Kiev. She mentioned a meeting of the European People’s Party (right) held at the same time, with Ukrainian politicians who would have testified that the deliveries of weapons promised by Brussels would be “still not arrived”.
She defended to want to redo the recent history of Franco-Russian diplomacy, while questioning the action of the Head of State. She pointed out that the United States “had planned” invasion in Ukraine. “We did not believe it,” she deplored. Le Monde had reported on 4 March that the different Western information services had, between the fall of 2021 and the beginning of the invasion, on February 24, a different reading of the signals sent by Moscow – USA and United Kingdom holding the offensive for acquired, while the Europeans thought the diplomatic channel still open.
She also recalled that she had issued the idea of a “peace conference in Europe” which would have insured in a “very clear” way that “the entry of Ukraine into NATO N ‘ [Est] No news “, so as to appease the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.
Macron” Too late in his awareness “
The right candidate mentioned what, according to her, was two “pre-running signs” of the invasion: the deployment at the Sahel of the Russian militia Wagner, came “destabilizing French interest”, and the ” migratory migration “organized, in the summer of 2021, at the Polish border, by the President of Belarus, Alexandre Loukachenko, Ally of Vladimir Putin – Brussels had accused Minsk for providing visas to many migrants in the perspective of destabilizing visas. The European Union.
For Valérie Pécresse, the Franco-Russian dialogue has “not been sustained enough” between the Macron-Putin meetings in Versailles in 2017 and at the fort of brick in 2019, and the year 2021, while we ” felt the hegemonic desire “of the Kremlin Master. In short, she criticized the head of state for being “too late in her awareness of the dangerousness of Vladimir Putin”.
M me Pécresse also criticized the president on domestic politics, such as the purchasing power “in Bern” and the “let-do” in migration. “When there is a war, there is a legitimistic reflex, we say that there is a captain who leads the operation,” she noticed, adding: “I think it should not to be afraid to change captain on April 11 [after the first round] because I have experience, I have a very strong government team, I have the alliance with the big parties, the great leaders of This world. “In particular, according to her, the European Parliament and the European Commission.