President Vladimir Putin granted an audience to French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen in the Kremlin yesterday, bestowing a level of international recognition that has so far eluded her in the countdown to France’s presidential election.Opinion polls show Le Pen, who has said she admires Putin, getting through to the second, decisive round of France’s presidential election on May 7 but then losing to centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron.Le Pen backs the lifting of the EU’s economic sanctions imposed on Russia over its role in the Ukraine conflict – a stance she reiterated yesterday.“We attach great importance to our relations …read more
Source: Gulf times
