PARIS — Leading French politicians are worryingly complacent about the threat of Russian interference in elections and must prove their independence from Moscow, the Green candidate for president warned.
Yannick Jadot, who won a party primary in November to compete in the presidential election, said Russian President Vladimir Putin clearly aimed to “undermine” the functioning of Western democracies and “weaken” the European Union.
But while officials in the U.S., Germany and Britain warn explicitly about Russian interference, he said France was living in a parallel universe, with Moscow not named by officials as the source of hacking threats. Several presidential candidates displayed …read more
Source: European Voice
