Poland outraged at Macron comments

Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement after French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron called ruling Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jarosław Kaczyński and ally of Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen. “The government of the Republic of Poland is not an ally of Ms. Marine Le Pen. Indicating an alleged alliance between Madame Le Pen and the chairman of Law and Justice is a manipulation,” the statement said. Macron during a rally said that, “We all know who Le Pen's allies are: the regimes of Orban, Kaczyński, Putin. These aren't regimes with an open and free democracy. Every day they break many democratic freedoms." Macron comments, followed the ones from back in April, when he said that, if elected, he would urge the European Union to impose sanctions on Poland for violating democratic norms. "We also want to remind that anyone who knows the history and Poland's internal situation has no right to accuse Poles of affinity towards imperial Russia," the foreign ministry said. Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski held a 90-minute meeting with Le Pen in January, pictures of which he posted on Twitter.