Emmanuel Macron asked the government to make a declaration before Parliament “relating to the bilateral security agreement concluded with Ukraine” on February 16, followed by a debate and a vote, said Tuesday February 27. Elysée in a press release.
This security agreement “establishes our long-term support for Ukraine to defeat Russia’s war of aggression”, recalls the Élysée which does not specify the date of this parliamentary debate, decided under the article 50-1 of the Constitution.
This announcement comes a few hours after a controversy sparked by Emmanuel Macron’s statements not ruling out the possibility of Western troops being sent to Ukraine. Monday evening, at the end of an international conference in support of Ukraine in Paris, the head of state declared that “there is no consensus today to send in an official, assumed manner and endorsed by ground troops. “But dynamically, nothing must be excluded,” he added, assuming a “strategic ambiguity”. Following these declarations, all the left, right and far-right oppositions requested the holding of a parliamentary debate.