Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Wednesday called on French voters to support President Emmanuel Macron in elections this weekend, accusing his far-right opponent Marine Le Pen’s party of links to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I certainly, without hesitation, urge the people of France to vote for Emmanuel Macron on April 24,” Navalny said on Twitter, accusing Le Pen’s party of receiving a nine-million-euro loan from “Putin’s notorious money-laundering outfit”, the First Czech-Russian Bank.
