“We must fight, step by step,” insisted the Head of State three months before the election. “Don’t let the nationalists in.
They were already at war. They are now defeated by Russia,” called Emmanuel Macron, while the National Rally list largely dominates the polls. The RN is regularly accused of leniency, even of proximity to Vladimir Putin's Russia. The war in Ukraine emerges as one of the first themes of the campaign for the European elections on June 9.