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How France’s presidential election could impact Ukraine war

French President and centrist candidate for reelection Emmanuel Macron gestures during the evening news broadcast of French TV channel TF1, in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Emmanuel Macron, a pro-EU centrist, is facing a harder-than-expected fight to stay in power, in part because the economic impact of the war is hitting poor households the hardest. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron, left, winks as he shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after a joint news conference following their talks in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. France is thousands of miles from Ukraine, but what happens in French voting stations this month could have repercussions in Ukrainian battlefields. Nationalist candidate Marine Le Pen wants to halt arms supplies to Ukraine, improve Western ties with Russia and weaken the EU and NATO, which would undermine long-held Western alliances and efforts to stop the war. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 24, 2017. France is thousands of miles from Ukraine, but what happens in French voting stations this month could have repercussions in Ukrainian battlefields. Nationalist candidate Marine Le Pen wants to halt arms supplies to Ukraine, improve Western ties with Russia and weaken the EU and NATO, which would undermine long-held Western alliances and efforts to stop the war (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

How France’s presidential election could impact Ukraine war