Tensions with Russia: Marine Le Pen accuses Macron of playing “with fears” by evoking the rearmament of Europe

The ping-pong resumes between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. From Flamanville (Manche), where she visited the EPR, the Patroness of the RN estimated this Tuesday, March 11 that the President of the Republic “played with fears” about international tensions, especially between Ukraine and Russia.

“There is not a Frenchman who did not understand that Emmanuel Macron, with a very martial tone, almost explains to us that we must transform the factories of Kleenex into an armament factories because the war is for tomorrow”, added, in a small ironic sentence, the deputy of Pas-de-Calais who sees in the positions displayed in recent days by the head of the State. A bitter criticism while the confidence rating of the President of the Republic, although still low, goes back in several barometers of opinion, (up to seven points earned in a month).

“The international sequence is bad for us,” said an RN leader on Monday, regretting that the training, on the defensive after defending somewhat illegible positions on the Ukrainian conflict and the strategic reversal of Donald Trump, does not adopt a more offensive tone.

The RN will not vote for a support for support in Ukraine

In Le Figaro on March 7, Marine Le Pen had already minimized the state of the Russian threat to France: “If after three years, Russia has trouble moving forward in Ukraine, there is little chance that it aims to come to Paris. She then said she shared François Fillon’s point of view according to which “Islamist fundamentalism remains the first threats”.

So many criticisms to which Emmanuel Macron reacted this Tuesday: “I heard in the debates in recent days people who, in a way, called into question the geopolitical threat. The President of the Republic would invent the Russian threat, “he gnashed during the launch of the future headquarters of the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), before the Norman speaking of Marine Le Pen.

She also said that her group in the National Assembly would not vote this Wednesday a resolution to support Ukraine due to a proposal for the integration of the country into the European Union: “I know the technique (…). That is to say that we make a nice resolution Support for Ukraine And inside, we slip you a whole series of things which we know very well that you are fundamentally opposed to it, hoping to be able to force you to vote it. »»