Le Pen and Putin met a month before France’s 2017 election that she lost to Macron, when she was in Moscow on a well-publicized trip designed to boost her stature on the global stage. There, the far-right leader said her views on Ukraine coincided with Putin’s and that Crimea had “never been Ukrainian.”
As for NATO, Le Pen has called it a “warmonger” organization and wants France to leave its command structure. That would send political shockwaves across the region, but please Putin. Asked recently what she’d have done differently to Macron in dealing with Putin, Le Pen said there’s no “magic spell,” only “diplomacy.” She says she doesn’t want to be submissive to Russia, or any other country.Before the first round of voting on April 10, Le Pen focused her campaign on living standards and purchasing power, issues that rank at the top of voter concerns.
She says that French banks didn’t want to do business with her party — now known as National Rally — at the time and are still wary on concern over damage to their brands.
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