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The cavity of Mariani
One of the most odious fans of Vladimir Putin in European politics, a former deputy of the French parliament, Thierry Mariani, on the eve of the elections in the European Parliament, joined the party Marin Le Pen "National Association".
It is clear that the main motive of Mariani is the desire to receive at least some deputy mandate after a recent failure in the elections to the National Assembly of France. Nevertheless, his transition to Le Pen once again emphasizes: the respectable policy and Putin are incompatible.
Mariani did not play in the defender of the interests of German business, as the former Federal Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schroeder. He did not try to make himself a champion of the compromise and mutual understanding of the West and Russia, as the former president of France Nicolas Sarkozy. He simply served Putin, you can even say - honestly served if in this case we can talk about honesty. He visited the annexed Crimea at the head of delegations composed of the same stratebriers serving Putin's interests. He went to Crimea even to illegal elections of the President of Russia, which the occupation administration arranged on the peninsula - to emphasize the Russian status of Crimea with its own presence. He heads the Association "Franco-Russian Dialogue", which in France itself is perceived as a Kremlin Rupe.
And with all this, Mariani remained a politician representing the interests of the “Republicans” - a party in which, of course, there are figures such as Fionon and Sarcosi, but which wants to look respectable and cannot allow Putin’s shameless licketing everywhere where they allow or order.
Mariani himself did not notice how the Kremlin service turned it into a hopeless marginal. The failure in the elections to the National Assembly was the logical end of his career. Yes, of course, the transition to the camp of ally of Le Pen can help Mariani with a mandate, but it will not cure marginality. Mariani is now a political joke. Badger joke.
Such politicians who are striking in populist, often financed from Moscow parties, in Europe today a dime a dozen. Sometimes they, even with the help of cunning combinations, win the elections - such as, for example, the coalition of left -wing and right populists and demagogues in Italy, whose representatives ran to parliament with one partners, and the government formed with others. But they still can not offer anything to voters, except for "freebies" and love for Putin.
This simple agenda can still work in the post -Soviet space, but in the West it does not work - its carriers are forced to either unfold 180 degrees, like the Greek prime minister and leader of the populist "Siriza" Alexis Tsipra, or lose the sympathy of voters and power.
Money must be earned. You can earn them only with the help of realistic economic approaches, protecting the traditional political values of Western civilization. Putin still has enough money for individual Marin and Mariani, but to Italy, France, Greece - alas. Europeans - no matter how sad it may sound for fans of the Russian president in Paris, Rome, Athens or in the Central European capitals - will have to remain Europeans.
