The candidate of rebellious France reproached this Sunday on TF1 “to President Macron for raising his voice“.
The rebellious presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon called this Sunday on TF1 to “de-escalation” tensions in Ukraine, believing that France should be “not aligned“and reproaching Emmanuel Macron for having a time”raise the tone” in this file.
Read alsoUkraine considers the chances of a diplomatic solution greater than those of an escalation
While Emmanuel Macron goes to Russia on Monday and Ukraine on Tuesday to meet his counterparts Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, and try to prevent an armed conflict, Jean-Luc Mélenchon defended himself from defending the Russian position. “France must be non-aligned, which means that neither the Russians must enter Ukraine, nor the Americans must annex Ukraine into NATO“, he estimated.
According to him, Vladimir Putin’s position is understandable. “I don’t know how we French would react if we learned that Recep Erdogan (the Turkish president, editor’s note) had created an alliance that would encircle France. It would not make us happy, so I think the key word must be de-escalation“, he continued. He said to reproachto President Macron for raising his voice at one point by saying ‘France will defend the integrity of Ukrainian territory’“.
NATO, “US relay»
“It seems completely excessive to me. If you want to play a role, you have to be non-aligned. If we choose to be aligned, we no longer play a role, we are in one of the camps. And France’s interest is not to turn Russia into an adversary“, he added.
In January, he pleaded for dialogue with Russia, which he considers an essential partner for Europe. “I don’t agree with making him an enemy“, he assured in a tweet at the beginning of January. He added that the enlargement of NATO to Eastern European countries in the 2000s had been “felt as a threat by Russia» and advocated an exit from NATO, which he considers to be the relay of the United States against Russia.