Victor Chabert, with AFP 6:58 p.m., June 16, 2022

During a press conference in Saint-Avold in Moselle, where she had come to support the RN candidates in the second round of the legislative elections, Marine Le Pen estimated that Emmanuel Macron had to "choose" between diplomacy or war, while the Head of State is traveling to Ukraine.

Emmanuel Macron will have to "choose" between diplomacy or war, estimated Thursday Marine Le Pen (RN) after the French president had declared that Ukraine had to "win" against Russia.

"Ukraine must be able to resist and win" against the Russian army, President Emmanuel Macron declared after a brief visit to Irpin, one of the suburbs of kyiv devastated in the first weeks of the war. the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Macron's remarks are "incoherent", judges Le Pen

"Diplomacy plus war, we will have to choose" because "if there is one area where we cannot do 'at the same time' it is this one", commented the far-right official during a press conference in Saint-Avold in Moselle, where she had come to support the RN candidates in the second round of the legislative elections.

Marine Le Pen, who supports the annexation of Crimea by Russia and was received in 2017 by Russian President Vladimir Putin, deemed the French president's remarks "incoherent".

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"Either Emmanuel Macron is betting on a military victory and in this case he makes (these) remarks. Either he is betting on a diplomatic victory and that is what he seemed to want to do, since he justified the fact of continue to have contacts with Russia, to refuse to humiliate Russia, to succeed in finding a diplomatic way”, estimated the finalist of the presidential one.

She repeated that "the choice of her trip" to Ukraine, with the German leaders Olaf Scholz and Italian Mario Draghi a few days before the second round of the legislative elections in France, had "obviously an electoral goal".

Marine Le Pen also affirmed that MM.

Scholz and Draghi had "perhaps an interest in Emmanuel Macron having his hands free" by obtaining a majority of deputies on Sunday, because "he is a good little soldier of the European Union".

"The European authorities have an interest in Emmanuel Macron having a majority," she added.