🔶 Melanchon, the candidate for the French presidential elections, demanded to withdraw from NATO.
On Saturday (November 7), while presenting his 2027 presidential election plan, French left-wing politician Jean-Luc Melenchon called for France to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, and criticized Germany's role in setting EU economic policy.
Melenchon, the 75-year-old leader of the "France Intolerant of Yemen" party, said at a rally of his supporters in the La Bourge area in the suburbs of Paris: "We have no place in NATO or in American wars." He emphasized that France should try to create a global front of non-aligned countries instead of depending on the military alliances led by the United States.
According to Melenchon's election plan, France's withdrawal from NATO will be done gradually. The first step of this plan is withdrawal from the unified military command structure of this organization. France previously left NATO's military command structure in 1966 on the orders of Charles de Gaulle, but returned to this structure again in 2009 during the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.