European parliamentarian condemns Zelensky’s interference in French elections

On April 21st, a member of the European Parliament’s Security and Defense Committee, Herve Goffin, condemned the attack launched by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, as an attempt by the latter to interfere in the electoral process.

“The broadcast of Zelensky’s interview and his attack on one of the French presidential candidates before the start of the only television debate is nothing but external interference in the elections,”TASS agency quoted Goffin as saying.

Goffin added: “This is not hidden interference when the head of a country that is not a member of the European Union allows himself to make statements hours before the most important debate that may affect the choice of the French voter.”

Zelensky had criticized, on the French BFM channel, the candidate of the French National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, just hours before the only television debate with the rival candidate, President Emmanuel Macron.

Le Pen said last week that Zelensky is asking Western countries more than they can give him, stressing her refusal to use the term “genocide” in relation to the recent developments in Ukraine.

O. al-Mohammad