European position towards Ukraine, situation in Gaza, disunity of the left, debt… What to remember from the interview with Manon Aubry

Before the European elections, franceinfo receives the head lists of French parties. Manon Aubry, head of the LFI list, was the guest of “Demain l’Europe”, Wednesday April 3.

Manon Aubry, head of the LFI list in the European elections, was the guest of Demain l’Europe on Wednesday April 3. She responded to Salhia Brakhlia, Jérôme Chapuis, Renaud Dély, Anna Kowalska, from Polish public television, and Enric Bonnet, correspondent for the Spanish newspaper El Periodico.

Ukraine, “France must take leadership of the peace camp”

Asked about the strategy of France and the European Union in the face of the war in Ukraine, Manon Aubry estimated that “France must take leadership of the peace camp and find a diplomatic solution” in the conflict. She also criticized the possible sending of ground troops to Ukraine, which would be “ineffective and irresponsible“, according to her.

“I’m tired of being told that there is ambiguity. We are for military, financial and logistical aid“, she insists.

Manon Aubry wants “in priority“, First of all “relaunch production coordination“military and industrial at European level.

Gaza, France and the European Union have a “responsibility”

Regarding the situation in the Gaza Strip, the head of the LFI list in the European elections believes that “France and the European Union bear a particular responsibility“by sending weapons to Israel. France even has one”major responsibility“in what she describes as”carnage“. She demands a “arms embargo“.

The candidate claims to fight in the European Parliament for two things: “An arms embargo, so that France and the EU stop sending weapons to Israel“, while he “lack of weapons in Ukraine“. She also fights for “the suspension of the association agreement between the EU and Israel“. Established in 2000, this agreement is the main legal instrument that governs bilateral relations between Israel and the European Union.

Europeans, “we are not condemned to suffer the extreme right or the Macronists”

Two months before the European elections, Manon Aubry once again expressed her “regret“than the left”not be united“, and in particular the Socialist Party which “turned his back on the Nupes program“, according to her. “When the left does not betray, it can stay in power“, she says.

“We are not condemned to suffer from the extreme right or the Macronists“, adds Manon Aubry.

Faced with the deficit, pick “the pockets of the profiteers”

To deal with the deficit, “rather than picking the pockets of the poor and the unemployed, let’s pick the pockets of the profiteers“, says Manon Aubry. She points “large multinational companies“, like Total or even the “billionaires of our country“.

She also criticizes the French government’s desire to achieve ten billion euros in savings this year in France. “This is undoubtedly the biggest social bloodletting we have ever known in France and Europe.“, she believes.

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