Jordan Bardella wants to transform NATO into an organization against Islamism

After the diplomatic crisis of the submarines, should France leave NATO?

To this question that comes on everyone's lips, Jordan Bardella, interim president of the National Rally (RN), says Sunday that it must rather transform it from the inside, to make it a body in the fight against Islamist terrorism.

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Either NATO accepts to transform itself and to become an organization of international fight against Islamism and against terrorism - this can be under the impulse of France, which would find its way of independence between the United States and Russia - or we'll get out of it

”, declared during the program Dimanche en Politique, on France 3, the one that Marine Le Pen placed at the head of his party during the presidential campaign.

President Emmanuel Macron and his American counterpart Joe Biden spoke by telephone on Wednesday in order to reduce the tension between Paris and Washington linked to the announcement on September 15 of a strategic partnership between the United States, Australia and the Kingdom United, which resulted in the cancellation of a colossal contract for French submarines in Canberra.

According to Jordan Bardella, "

we should take advantage of this betrayal to get out of the bondage in which we are today vis-à-vis the United States and in particular, that we find this independence which would consist of leaving military command. integrated with NATO and to question our membership in NATO

”.

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And to plead: “

NATO was the alliance of Western democracies against communism, led by the United States at the time of the cold war.

There is no communist threat today.

The ideological enemy of the 21st century, the totalitarianism of the 21st century, is Islamist fundamentalism

”.

The president of the RN is also in favor of maintaining a French military presence in the Sahel "

to contain the advance of the Islamists

".