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War in Ukraine: François Fillon breaks his ties with two Russian companies

2022-02-25T17:05:11.527Z


The former prime minister, a member of the board of directors of two Russian companies, had been concentrating criticism for several days.


His activity was more than criticized.

A member of the board of directors of the Russian petrochemical giant Sibur since last November, François Fillon will resign from his post.

The former prime minister and presidential candidate will speak in a column published in

Le Journal du Dimanche

, in which he will explain his choice, as the war continues between Russia and Ukraine.

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It's a collective failure but in the hierarchy of responsibilities, Vladimir Poutine is the only culprit to have started a conflict which could have, which should have been avoided

”, affirms François Fillon according to the first revelations of the weekly.

Under these conditions, I cannot continue my participation on the boards of the Russian companies Zarubeshneft and Sibur.

I do it with sadness because I met men and women of great values

​​there, ”he continues.

Fillon "accomplice" of Putin

In recent days, the links of the former tenor of the right with Russia have been regularly pointed out within the political class.

European Affairs Minister Clément Beaune was the first to accuse him of having made himself an "

accomplice

" of Vladimir Putin by accepting these new functions.

The Republican candidate, Valérie Pécresse, then defended it by asking the majority "

to show a little dignity in this affair

".

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During the first official Kremlin attacks, François Fillon's comment published on social networks also aroused strong reactions.

If he condemned “

the use of force in Ukraine

”, he recalled to

warn “for ten years against the refusal of Westerners to take into account Russian claims on the expansion of NATO

”.

Source: lefigaro

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