Emmanuel Macron landed a few blows in the presidential arena on Tuesday.

"It's not in me that you have to look for complacency vis-à-vis Vladimir Putin, it's not in me that you have to seek funding from Russia, it's in other candidates.

We must not forget that, ”said the candidate president during a visit to Finistère.

Although he does not name these "other candidates", Emmanuel Macron was referring to Marine Le Pen (RN) received by the Russian president in 2017 and whose party continues to repay a loan of around nine million euros to a Russian creditor.

His spade also targets Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!) and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI), also criticized for pro-Russian positions.

Macron defends the maintenance of a dialogue with Putin

Asked during a press briefing about his dialogue with the Russian President, the Head of State defended the maintenance of a dialogue with Vladimir Putin “since the start of the war, each time at the request of Volodymyr Zelensky ( the Ukrainian president, editor's note) because he considers it useful that a dialogue be maintained".

“As long as the Ukrainian president asks me to have a dialogue with Russia, as long as France can have this role of advancing the negotiations, obtaining things on the humanitarian level and preparing for peace, I will do it”, explained Emmanuel Macron.

He said he had a telephone meeting at the end of the afternoon with his Ukrainian counterpart.

Emmanuel Macron defended himself from instrumentalizing the conflict in Ukraine for domestic political purposes when he was asked about a hypothetical trip to kyiv.

“I never used this situation.

Going to kyiv to make a visit after so many others… If it was a visit without result or usefulness, I wouldn't do it.

If I can contribute something and have a useful effect, I will do it whether it's before or after (the presidential election, editor's note).

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