“If that had committed me to anything, I wouldn’t have signed.” Marine Le Pen, former president of the National Rally, has denied having given in to any Russian interference when she signed a loan of nine million euros for her party in 2014 in Russia. Heard by a parliamentary commission of inquiry, which seeks to determine whether this loan gave rise to political counterparts, the losing candidate of the presidential election maintained that she had signed “a loan with a bank”. “I am not signing a loan with Vladimir Putin”, she hammered.
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