MOSCOW—President Vladimir Putin met French National Front leader Marine Le Pen in the Kremlin on Friday, handing her a potential boost to her campaign to win next month’s presidential election in France.
Putin told Le Pen Moscow reserved the right to meet any French politician it wanted and that she represented “quite a fast-growing element of European political forces.”
“Of course I know that the election campaign in France is actively developing,” said Putin. “We do not want to influence events in any way, but we reserve the right to talk to representatives of all the country’s political forces.”
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Source: The Epoch Times
