The blow comes as the French president, who is seeking re-election this month, faces a rising far right at home, putting Marin Le Pen, who met Morawiecki in October, close to winning the presidency. He also stressed the deep differences between the two men over Macron’s talks with President Vladimir Putin since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February. Earlier this week, Morawiecki criticized Macron’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine through talks with Putin, dismissing them as ineffective and likening them to talks with Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot. Macron retaliated on Wednesday, accusing Morawiecki of meddling in the French presidential election, with the first round of voting scheduled for Sunday. In an interview with readers of the daily Le Parisien published on Friday, he went further, describing Morawiecki’s comparison as “shameful” and launching an attack on the Polish prime minister. “The Polish prime minister is an anti-Semitic of the far right who bans LGBT people,” Macron was quoted as saying. “He is under investigation by the EU for arbitrarily dismissing many judges.” The reason for Morawiecki’s attack, he added, was that the Polish prime minister, who comes from the conservative-nationalist Law and Justice party, supported Le Pen. “Let us not be naive. He wants to help her before the vote! ” he said. On Sunday, Macron and Lepen are expected to beat the other candidates and face each other in the second round on April 24. Recent opinion polls suggest an increasingly tight race between the couple.

The spokesman for the Polish government, Piotr Müller, described Macron’s comments as “incomprehensible”. “I understand that in the political sentiments that accompany every election campaign, words are said that exaggerate it. But talking about the prime minister of the Polish government in the context of anti-Semitism. . . “It is a lie,” he said. He added: “I hope that this election campaign in France will calm down a bit and that then the French president will speak differently and will really stick to the historical facts.” Sebastian Kaleta, Poland’s deputy justice minister, wrote on Twitter: “Oops, the truth about the ‘effectiveness’ of his telephone talks with Putin has hurt. [Macron]. “Macron’s nerves show that he is aware of the moral bankruptcy of his policy towards Russia.”

Macron said the conversation with Putin was a “nasty” undertaking with the support of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky because he was trying to negotiate humanitarian evacuations of civilians from besieged cities such as Mariupol, as well as a truce and a Russian truce. . His campaign recently highlighted that Le Pen sought and received Putin’s approval in the 2017 presidential race by meeting with the Russian leader in the Kremlin. She then secured a loan from a Russian bank near the Kremlin to finance her campaign. Macron, meanwhile, had accused Moscow of hacking into his campaign website. The Polish government is at the forefront of calls to the EU to take a tougher line on Russia over its invasion. He urged the West to supply more weapons to Ukraine and pushed for tougher sanctions, including on oil and gas. Macron called for an embargo on Russian coal and oil exports last week. “Another day of Russian war crimes – this time a cold-blooded attack on civilians in Kramatorsk,” Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski wrote on Twitter on Friday after what appeared to be a Russian rocket attack on a train station in eastern Don Of Ukraine. area killed dozens of people. “Another day without European sanctions for oil and gas. To believe that repeated phone calls to Putin will end this war is naive. “Leaders have no right to be naive.”

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