The European campaign is launched.
While Gabriel Attal had launched in
Le Figaro
a proposal for a debate to Marine Le Pen on the agricultural crisis, it was ultimately on the war in Ukraine that a first exchange of arms took place between the Prime Minister and the double- presidential finalist.
During questions to the government this Tuesday, the boss of the RN deputies questioned the head of government about the possible mobilization of French or European troops mentioned the day before by Emmanuel Macron.
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The first duty of a country is to dispose of the lives of its soldiers only to defend its independence or to preserve its integrity or to commit itself, if, within the framework of an alliance, obligations have been contracted .
But there on external ground, we would have to intervene militarily with our soldiers?
, the nationalist said.
By affirming that sending ground troops was “not excluded”, Emmanuel Macron took a further step towards co-belligerence, posing an existential risk to 70 million French people and more particularly to our armed forces.
“The insult, the insult, the outrage”
In response, the tenant of Matignon did not wish to remove
the "strategic ambiguity
" voluntarily assumed by the President of the Republic - who is also the head of the armies in the Constitution.
Instead, Gabriel Attal preferred to return the elected RN to some of the positions that had been those of his party vis-à-vis Moscow.
“
You defended a military alliance with Russia (...) only two years ago, it was in your program for the presidential election
,” he lambasted.
“If you had been elected Madame Le Pen, we would not be providing weapons to the Ukrainians to defend themselves, but we would be providing weapons to Russia to crush the Ukrainians
,” he added. accused
.
Mentioning a recent investigation by the
Washington Post
, pinning the National Rally for
“links with Russia”
, the Prime Minister further hardened his charge against Marine Le Pen:
“There is reason to wonder if Vladimir Putin's troops are not not already in our country, I'm talking about you and your troops.
A few minutes after their exchange, the double-finalist in the presidential election left the chamber and strongly criticized Gabriel Attal's response.
“The Prime Minister responded with insult, with insult, with contempt.
"I hope that these French people will remember it when the time comes (...)
I believe that my question was legitimate, that it was expressed in an extremely moderate, reasonable manner
," she pleaded.