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The Communist nominee in France’s April presidential election has suggested storming Russian oligarchs’ winter palaces on the French Riviera and handing them over to Ukrainian refugees as candidates scramble to adjust their pitches in a campaign hijacked by the war in Ukraine.
With the first round of France’s presidential election less than six weeks away, a lacklustre campaign already overshadowed by the lingering Covid-19 pandemic has been thrown further off course by Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Foreign policy is typically a sideshow in French presidential campaigns, but Europe’s biggest military invasion since World War II has left France’s presidential hopefuls with no option but to venture into geopolitics and test their credentials as future commanders-in-chief.
With a few notable exceptions, candidates for the Elysée Palace have scrambled to adjust their schedules, swapping campaign events for pro-Ukraine rallies and attempting to clarify – or rectify – past comments on Russia’s president.
Fabien Roussel, the Communist Party candidate best known for his defence of French beef, has come up with perhaps the most eye-catching proposal: requisitioning the Russian elite’s luxury possessions on the French Riviera.
“Russian oligarchs close to Putin own numerous billionaires’ villas on the Côte d’Azur. I propose that the state requisitions them to welcome refugees from Ukraine,” the head of the Communist Party posted on his Twitter feed on Saturday. He also called on all French towns and villages to take in at least one or two Ukrainian families displaced by Putin’s war.
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Source : france24
