Marine Le Pen presented her foreign policy program this Wednesday, April 13 at a press conference in Paris. The far-right candidate took the opportunity, hollow, to assert her differences with Emmanuel Macron.
For an hour and a half, Marine Le Pen praises a more independent and powerful France on the international scene, reports Pierre Olivier, from the political service of RFI. To do this, she advocates a return to secret diplomacy ” efficient “, in opposition to what she calls diplomacy ” talkative by Emmanuel Macron. Less multilateralism, more bilateralism, as with Lebanon, one of its priorities, where we cannot, she tackles, be content to go there in ” man in a hurry “.
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In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Marine Le Pen defends the ” two state solution “, in line with current French diplomacy, also welcoming the rapprochement between Israel and a number of Arab countries. ” The United Arab Emirates like Oman are countries on which France can rely to roll back Islamist ideology “, she adds, without citing Saudi Arabia. She also pleads for the restoration of diplomatic relations with Syria, going against Emmanuel Macron.
Marine Le Pen wants to put an end to the ” submission towards China. ” We will contribute to ensuring respect for international law, maritime law, including by the People’s Republic of China, in the regions of the globe where French power is present. “, she explains. It also specifies that the French Development Agency (AFD) is not intended to finance Chinese competition, the economic development of China ” under the guise of sustainable or green development “.
Expected on the European question
Expected on the European question, Marine Le Pen specifies that she does not want to leave the EU, but to reform it from within. The far-right candidate criticizes the ambiguity that her opponent seeks to create on the subject. She assures him, Germany will remain a partner of choice, but with a new relationship, far from the model ” Macron/Merkel and French blindness to Berlin “.
Regarding the war in Ukraine, Marine Le Pen says she is ready to deliver ” defense elements ” to Ukraine, that is to say non-lethal weapons, but not heavy weapons which, according to her, would make France a ” co-belligerent alongside the Ukrainians against Russia.
Finally, on the Russian question, Marine Le Pen says she hopes for a rapprochement between NATO and Russia once the war in Ukraine is over. Asked about her often decried relationship with Vladimir Putin, she replied that she had ” fact that defending the interests of France and keep the dialogue going. And to conclude that there is on this point a ” similarity between his position and that of Emmanuel Macron “.
(And with AFP)