French President Emmanuel Macron: “Polish Prime Minister is far-right anti-Semite”
After Poland’s prime minister, known as a supporter of anti-Jewish laws, expressed support for Marin Le Pen and compared Putin to Hitler, Emanuel Macron counterattacked and promised – “In every order of European peace for Russia an important place is reserved”
French President Emmanuel Macron called Polish Prime Minister Matusz Morawiecki an “extreme right-wing anti-Semite” in an interview with Le Parisien published on Friday.
While the EU worked to present a united front against Moscow, Morawiecki, known for supporting the law on the confiscation of property of Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and a law forbidding claims that Poles aided the Germans in the Holocaust,
He is the one who criticizes French President Macron for maintaining an open dialogue with Putin during Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, while openly supporting his right-wing rival, Marin Le Pen.
“He supports Marin Le Pen, whom he has received on several occasions,” Macron continued. “Let’s not be naive, he wants to help her before the election!”, Macron explained the source of the Polish criticism.
According to French President Morveyecki, he is an ally of Le Pen, and they have met on many occasions.
Le Pen is known to face Macron in the first round of the French presidential election this weekend.
Macron’s victory is considered a complete business until recently, but a new poll from Thursday raised it as the winner by a single percentage point in a hypothetical confrontation between the two in the second round.
Le Pen is apparently aided by positive polls for it stemming from rising fuel prices because of voters abandoning Macron.
Macron also found himself in the corner because of his attitude towards Russia – on the one hand, he tried to paint La Pen as a favor to Putin; On the other hand, he was forced to defend his policy of having frequent telephone conversations with the Russian leader.
Morawiecki and Polish President Andrzej Duda are among Macron’s most vocal critics of the dialogue with Russia.
“Sir, President Macron, how many times have you negotiated with Putin, what have you achieved?” Morveyecki said earlier this week.
“There is no need to negotiate with criminals … no one negotiated with Hitler.”
“We have to present very difficult conditions to Vladimir Putin. We have to say, ‘Unless you meet these conditions, we have nothing to talk about.'”
Macron defended his talks with Putin, stating that “there can be no lasting peace if Russia is not part of the great architecture of peace on our continent,” insisting that Western leaders must “always respect Russia as a state, and the Russian people.”
In a conversation with Le Frisian, he called Morveyecki’s comparison of Putin to Hitler “shameless.”
Meanwhile, the diplomatic repercussions of the Macron and Morveyecki battle continue.
The Polish Foreign Minister on Friday summoned the French ambassador to Warsaw to reprimand him over Macron’s “statements” to Le Parisien.
While leaders in Brussels and Washington noted unity among Western allies in the confrontation with Russia, several cracks appeared in the transatlantic alliance.
Hungary, for example, has stated that it will continue to buy Russian gas, and will pay for the goods in rubles as Putin demanded. In addition, Poland has blamed Germany – which is heavily dependent on imported Russian gas – for standing in its way of tightening sanctions on Moscow.
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