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Solz, Sanchez and Costa call on French to choose ‘Democrat candidate’

The heads of government of Germany Olaf Solz, Spain Pedro Sanchez and Portugal Antonio Costa indirectly call on the French to vote for Emanuel Macron and not Marin Le Pen in the second round of the French presidential election, with an article published today by Le World.

“The choice that the French people are facing is crucial for France and for each of us in Europe. It is the choice between a Democratic candidate who believes that France is stronger within a strong and autonomous European Union. “, and a candidate of the far right, who is openly on the side of those who attack our freedom and our democracy”, they write without naming them.

The three leaders say that the war waged by Russian President Vladimir Putin against Ukraine “aims at the values ​​that France and our countries defend: democracy, sovereignty, freedom and the rule of law” and poses a risk of we see “the borders being drawn again by force, as (…) has happened so many times in our bloody past”.

“Populists and the far right in all our countries have made Vladimir Putin an ideological and political role model, echoing his nationalist aspirations. They have replicated his attacks on minorities and diversity. They share his dream of a uniform nation.”

“We must not forget this, even if these politicians today tend to distance themselves from the Russian aggressor,” said Solz, Sanchez and Costa.

“We need France on our side (…) A France that defends our common values, in a Europe in which we recognize ourselves, which is free and open to the world, sovereign, strong and at the same time generous,” they say. .

“This France is also on the ballot on April 24. We hope that the citizens of the French Republic will choose it,” the signatories of the article conclude.

SOURCE: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ

Source: Capital

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