French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen says she opposes sanctions against Russia that would drive up energy costs in France. “I don’t want it to be the French who suffer the full force of the consequences of decisions that would aim to end gas or oil imports,” the right-wing politician told France Inter. She knows what a gas or oil embargo would mean for French energy costs. In connection with the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, a possible ban on imports of Russian gas and oil in the EU is being discussed controversially. Le Pen stressed that she was only opposed to sanctions targeting the energy sector. She supports all other punitive measures against Russia.
In the run-up to the first round of the presidential elections, the 53-year-old was repeatedly accused of being too close to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin. At the beginning of April, she held out the prospect that once the war was over, Russia could once again become a partner of the West. On April 24, the French will vote in a run-off election on whether Le Pen moves into the Élysée Palace or the current President Emmanuel Macron again.
Source: Stern
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