“French citizens are facing a crucial choice, for France and for each of us in Europe,” they said in a joint article in the French newspaper. Le Monde the chancellor Olaf Solts and the Prime Ministers of Spain and Portugal, Pedro Sanchez and Antonio Costain view of the second round of the French elections on Sunday.
«It is the choice “between a democratic candidate who knows that France’s power is growing in a strong and independent European Union and an extreme right-wing candidate who stands openly in solidarity with those who attack our freedom and democracy,” the three leaders wrote, referring to Emanuel. Macron and in Marin Lepen.
The representative of the German Liberals (FDP) for foreign policy issues Alexander Lambsdorfin an interview with the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung, described Ms Lepen as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”, while his counterpart in the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Niels Schmidt states in the same newspaper that “Marin Le Pen’s promises are tantamount to France leaving the EU”.
For his part, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, in a statement to the WDR radio station, “sees” France in a kind of “political civil war” and warns that a possible election victory by Le Pen would lead to irreparable damage. “After Trump and Brexit, Le Pen would be deadly” for the EU, he warns, but says he is convinced he will not be elected.
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