The president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, declared on Thursday against a departure from the NATO integrated command while the war in Ukraine “remains ongoing”, stating in passing that he was not totally hostile to supplies of Scalp missiles French in Kiev. .
Should we abandon NATO’s integrated command? “If the war continues, no,” Jordan Bardella responded during an interview in Paris organized by the Politico media outlet and the Europa Nova think tank.
“We do not change the treaties in times of war,” insisted the head of the RN list in the European elections, while his party has long advocated leaving command of the Alliance, as General De Gaulle did in 1966, before Nicolas Sarkozy. He reversed this decision in 2009.
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In April 2022, two months after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Marine Le Pen, then qualified for the second round of the presidential elections, promised to “abandon NATO’s integrated command”, in the name of “independence”. from France. But this program “did not take the war into account,” said Jordan Bardella.
The president of the RN has also not closed the door on shipments of long-range French Scalp missiles to Ukraine. “Why not?” he said.
However, he warned against sending equipment “that could reach Russian territory,” at the risk of “escalation.”
Asked about the upcoming US elections in November, which he believes will be decisive for the future of NATO, Jordan Bardella admitted that “between (Joe) Biden and (Donald) Trump”, his “heart is more with Trump.”
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Although he agreed that a new term by Donald Trump “was not necessarily” good news for France, “when we see the threats of sanctions and customs duties on French wine exports” that it poses.
Jordan Bardella, who leads the voting intention in France for the June elections, finally returned to the possible alliances that his party, a member of the Identity and Democracy group (nationalists and far-right), could form in the European Parliament.
He said he was betting on “a breakup” of the far-right group “European Conservatives and Reformists” (ECR), which includes the party of Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni.
“We can reasonably expect to be the third group in Parliament,” he added.
Source: BFM TV
