Le Pen Vows to Pull France Out of NATO’s Integrated Military Command if Elected President

By
Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff
-
5
1347

France24: Le Pen will face Emmanuel Macron in the second round of presidential elections, due to take place on 24 April.

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday that she would withdraw France from the NATO Military Command if she is elected.

“We are not talking about leaving the bloc, but about leaving its command structure,” the politician said.

She also noted that France had already had such an experience: back in 1966, all French armed forces were removed from NATO’s integrated military command, and all non-French NATO troops were asked to leave the country. Paris reversed the move and rejoined the bloc’s military command only in 2009, during the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.



The politician has already called on France to leave NATO’s integrated command over the years, saying the structure “perpetuates the anachronistic and aggressive logic of the Cold War blocs”. The leader of the National Rally also stressed she is backing “strategic rapprochement” between the alliance and Russia.

Le Pen said it is in the interests of France, Europe, and even the US, noting that they wouldn’t be happy to see the emergence of a Russia-China alliance.

Marine Le Pen, French presidential candidate and leader of the political party the National Front, during a news conference following the first round of the presidential election.

In the first round, which took place on Sunday, Incumbent President Emmanuel Macron came first with 27.84% of the vote and Le Pen gained 23.15%. Founder of the party La France Insoumise, left-wing MP Jean-Luc Melenchon, ended up third with 21.95 percent, and journalist Eric Zemmour came fourth with 7.07%.

Gaullists and Socialists suffered their worst results in modern French history: the candidate for The Republicans, Valerie Pecresse, got 4.78%, and socialist Anne Hidalgo received a nugatory 1.75% percent.

France, along with the United Kingdom, was one of the two signatories of the Treaty of Dunkirk in 1947, which served as the foundation for the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949.

Source: France24

ATTENTION READERS

We See The World From All Sides and Want YOU To Be Fully Informed
In fact, intentional disinformation is a disgraceful scourge in media today. So to assuage any possible errant incorrect information posted herein, we strongly encourage you to seek corroboration from other non-VT sources before forming an educated opinion.

About VT - Policies & Disclosures - Comment Policy
Due to the nature of uncensored content posted by VT's fully independent international writers, VT cannot guarantee absolute validity. All content is owned by the author exclusively. Expressed opinions are NOT necessarily the views of VT, other authors, affiliates, advertisers, sponsors, partners, or technicians. Some content may be satirical in nature. All images are the full responsibility of the article author and NOT VT.

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR

5 COMMENTS

  1. with her ’’Out of NATO’’
    suggestion/promiss
    she will win…
    Except Zelensky no one want to be in NATO any longer…

  2. Here in Canada we have the pathetic excuse for a leader that has just coined a new word, “overnationalism”. Le Pen will soon be accused by Le Petit Roi of Canada, of being an overnationalist. Please invade us USA.

  3. I wish LePenn the best. She’s Charles De Gaul in drag.🤣 If she wins it’ll be the beginning of the end of NATO and the EU😎👍

  4. Marine Le Pen is running neck-and-neck with Macron in polls leading up to the final election for president of France on April 24.
    A victory by Le Pen is right now the greatest hope we have for a return to sanity by Europe over the Russian action in Ukraine.
    It would be an absolute repudiation of Biden’s undeclared war against Russia that is on the way to destroy the European economy.
    We can hope.

Comments are closed.