Le Pen's party corrects Salvini: 'Russia is not a democracy' - News. Franceinfo.

The leader of the Rassemblement National, Jordan Bardella, underlined that Russia is not democratic. "Putin is in this very self-centered incarnation of power, in what he has called the vertical of power since 2000", Marine Le Pen's right-hand man further observed, later saying he was in line with the positions taken by the French Foreign Ministry led by Stéphane Sejourné.