François Bayrou qualifies Jean-Luc Mélenchon as a “defender of Poutine”, Mathilde Panot answers him

While Emmanuel Macron visited Ukraine on Thursday June 16, the positions of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen vis-à-vis the Russian president are pointed out by the presidential camp. On the set of “France 2022”, on France 2, François Bayrou accused the leader of Nupes of being a “Putin’s defender”. He recalled that Jean-Luc Mélenchon had assured that “Putin will never attack[it] Ukraine”.

“The government, in a Defense commission, was saying itself that the information they had in terms of intelligence was that there would be no attack from Russia” (sic), replied Mathilde Panot. Jean-Luc Mélenchon had also admitted his mistake, the day after the Russian attack in Ukraine.

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François Bayrou insisted with another example. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon proposed, and he continues to propose, that we leave NATO to make an alliance, with Putin, with China, with Cuba and with a certain number of South American countries”did he declare. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon said again recently that there would be no immediate exit from NATO in view of the European context. It is marked black and white in our program for the New Ecological and Social Union”she retorted.