At the approach of the first round, the French president accuses Mesteusz Morawiecki of interference in the election campaign in France and support in Marine Le Pen.
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Between Emmanuel Macron and the National Conservative government in Warsaw, relations have never been cordial. In recent days, on a background of war in Ukraine and French electoral campaign, the incisive verbal exchanges are gradually rising in tension between the French President and the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki. They reached their paroxysm when, answering the readers of the Parisian, Mr. Macron described Mr. Morawiecki of “extreme right antisemitis”. The next day, Friday, April 8, the French Ambassador to Warsaw, Frédéric Ticket, was summoned to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On April 4, speaking on the massacres of civilians perpetrated by the Russian army in kyiv’s suburbs, Mr Morawiecki had taken open openly to the French and German leaders, criticizing their politics vis-à-vis Russia. “Mr. President Macron, how many times have you negotiated with Putin? Have you got something? There is not to negotiate with criminals. Do you negotiate with Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot?” Had it argued.
“Mix of genres”
Asked about TF1 Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron found these words “both unfounded and outrageous”. Thursday, in the Parisian, the President had mounted in a tone by considering that “Prime Minister Polish is an extreme right anti-Semitic who, in addition, fights LGBT people. (…) He supports Marine Le Pen, what He received on many occasions. “” Let’s not be naive, he wants to help him before the election, “he added.
A reference to repeated meetings between the head of the Polish Government and the President of the National Rally, in particular in the framework of conferences bringing together the leaders of the sovereignist and extreme right-wing parties. During any of these meetings, on December 4, 2021, in Warsaw, M me Le Pen had been received with honors worthy of a head of state – alongside, in particular, of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The last group’s conference was held in Madrid on January 29, less than a month before the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
Mr. Macron’s comments may seem surprising, to the extent that France ensures the half-year of the Council of the Council of the European Union. “This testifies to a certain mix of genres between the presidential campaign and the desire to stand out from M me Le Pen, in the perspective of the second round, and the reserve obligation related to the role of the role of French government within the twenty-seven this semester, “says an expert on European issues in Paris. In spite of the persistent litigation of the violations of the rule of law by the majority in power in Warsaw, the war in Ukraine has also brought Poland from its European neighbors. These are particularly trying to help him face the influx of refugees on his soil – more than two million in six weeks – that the country is very welcome.
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