"This war changes one thing", estimated Mr. Abad on Radio J: "It gives breath, credibility to the candidates who embody political alternations of government. And it disqualifies the extremes and those who are too aligned with the position pro-Russian."
Asked to specify who these candidates, according to him, would be credible, he quoted the candidate LR Valérie Pécresse, of whom he is one of the supporters, but also the outgoing Emmanuel Macron or even "the social-democratic and moderate left" of Anne Hidalgo ( PS).
"Until now, it was the one who spoke the loudest, who had the highest verb that was taken up everywhere. Now it will be the one who speaks the most seriously and in the most involved way possible," he said. -he bet, targeting Eric Zemmour in particular: "The French do not want a French Poutine, they want a Gaullist president".
All the main presidential candidates have condemned the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army at the initiative of President Vladimir Putin, with nevertheless important nuances on the substance of the response to be made.
While both the left and the right approve of the international sanctions measures taken since Thursday, even calling for going further, the far-right candidate Eric Zemmour, who has often professed his admiration for Vladimir Putin, notably displayed his skepticism against sanctions according to him "useless", and likely to affect the purchasing power of the French.
For her part, Marine Le Pen is criticized for her past acquaintances with the Kremlin, she who visited Vladimir Putin during the 2017 presidential campaign.
Finally Jean-Luc Mélenchon had estimated a few weeks ago that in the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, "NATO was the aggressor", qualifying the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO as "annexation ".
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