The three candidates plead, in their program, at least coming out of the Integrated Command of the Organization, but the Russian military invasion forced them to modify their measurement.
Le Monde
“It’s no longer the news of going out of NATO today, of course,” conceded the communist candidate in the presidential election, Fabien Roussel, on the Plateau de France 2, Thursday, March 24 . A few seconds previously, the member of the North nodded by listening to the journalist Lea Salamé to take up, in his program, a measure foreseeing “to leave NATO and even dismantle it”. “We will see what the outcome of this conflict,” said Roussel, before proposing the construction of an “other collective security treaty” in Europe and around the world.
One month after the start of the Russian military invasion in Ukraine, the most critical candidates of the presence of France in the Integrated Military Command of the Atlantist Organization are caught up by almost impossibility to consider a Departure in full war. “Trust me for the best conditions to achieve this decision. No doubt it is not in the fire of today’s action that this decision is required,” said Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Sunday, during the issue “Political questions”, on France Inter.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “I am not unlike between Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Putin”
The decision of a departure remains “more valuable than ever”, he has at the same time estimated, hammering – as he has done for several weeks – that a non-alignment of France in the International relations “does not mean neutral (…). I am not unlike between Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Putin. It is quite clear that I sit on Mr. Zelensky against Mr. Putin. But, In each case, France must be able to have an autonomy of dialogue and it must be able to defend itself “.
“We’re not going to do it while there is a war in a European country,” said CNEWS, Thursday night, Marine Le Pen. “Do not give the signal. There is no question, especially right now, to leave the Western camp, but it will have to do it,” added the far-right candidate, who had been received by Vladimir Putin In 2017 and whose party continues to reimburse a loan to a Russian creditor.
She justified this release of the Integrated NATO command, gathered Thursday in Brussels in extraordinary summit, by the fact that “it is not the DNA of our country than not being independent, and not Work to have a full army format “. “Our army was a little resting under the hook umbrella, we thought,” We do not need to make big budget efforts (…) of investments because anyway we have NATO ” “, Has it justified.
Instead of a “strengthening” of NATO in Europe, she said that she would prefer “that the different European countries, by cooperation agreements, be able to assume their own defense.” The candidate reiterated his opposition to the sanctions against Russia who would have “consequences of destroying the French economy”.