It's not for lack of looking.
After having suffered several refusals, the presidential camp is still slow to nominate its head of list for the European elections, scheduled for next June.
But there is one who would be ready to jump into the deep end: MEP Bernard Guetta
“would gladly accept”
to lead the adventure, if we offered it to him.
“I will take up the challenge because it will be a challenge
,” he assured, invited this Friday on France 2.
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Four months before the European elections, the presidential majority is the only political force not to have designated its leader.
“We lost time
,” lamented Bernard Guetta, who wants to induct the battle leader as quickly as possible.
For the former journalist who has sat in the European Parliament since 2019, the head of the list must be
“someone who knows the priority issues of the European Union today, that is to say in particular defense issues »
.
“For several weeks, there has really been panic in European capitals over the possible re-election of Donald Trump and the possibility that we are completely defenseless
,” he said, after the threat from the former president. to no longer guarantee the protection of NATO countries against Russia.
Faced with this,
“there is a general mobilization which is becoming truly impressive”
in European countries, he judged.
He referred to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's call on Monday for
“closer”
cooperation between the arms industries of the 27 to build a
“strong”
European defense in the face of Vladimir Putin's
“imperial ambitions”
.
“It is the German chancellor, a social democratic chancellor, who declares this while Germany is fundamentally pacifist
,” he rejoiced.