Change of footing at the National Rally. In her 2022 presidential program, Marine Le Pen hoped, if elected to the highest office, that France would take
the measure of its responsibilities on a military level and opt for a hands-free policy
.
“This supposes that France withdraws from NATO’s integrated command
,” urged the nationalist contender. But the stagnation of the war in Ukraine for two years has got the better of the position of the flame party. Who, confronted with the new geopolitical situation, never ceases to have to adjust his old proposals. Guest Thursday evening on Politico's “PlayBook Paris Election”, as part of the European campaign, the president of the National Rally made a slight shift. Far from being trivial.
In the event that the RN came to power in 2027, would France leave the integrated military command of the Atlantic alliance - a body that it had reinstated in 2008 under the Sarkozy presidency?
“If the war is still going on, no,”
replied the RN MEP. For Jordan Bardella,
“the program that
(his party)
has always defended did not take into account the war”
raging in eastern Europe. As a way of better institutionalizing himself on the international scene, the young 28-year-old official does not intend to
“change the treaties during times of war”
.
“What will be the future of NATO? We don't have the answer. The one who has it is most certainly on the other side of the Atlantic
,” argued the nationalist leader in reference to the American presidential election which will take place in November 2024.
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The “possible and probable” election of Trump
“What the United States will or will not decide”
could thus be turned upside down by
“the probable and possible election of Donald Trump”
against the current tenant of the White House Joe Biden. The Republican candidate having threatened to no longer protect NATO member countries, or even to encourage Russia to attack them, if the latter did not pay their dues to the United States, the boss of the RN distances himself from the billionaire.
“My heart was more with Trump”,
but
“as it stands”,
his election would
“not necessarily”
be a good thing for French interests, considers the European parliamentarian, particularly on exports of French wine products. Before officially expressing his choice, Jordan Bardella intends to rely on the programs of the two contenders.