Jordan Bardella campaigning on defense and security themes at the Eurosatory show

The president of the National Rally intends to position himself, on Wednesday, as the future head of National Defense.

The National Rally has revised the Constitution: the President of the Republic is certainly the head of the Armed Forces, but it is the Prime Minister who is responsible for National Defense. In particular, it decides on the budgetary resources allocated.

And it is with this in mind, in the middle of the legislative campaign, that Jordan Bardella goes, Wednesday June 19, to the Eurosatory defense and security exhibition in Villepinte, north of Paris. The president of the National Rally, who already imagines himself at Matignon in the event of a victory for the RN, intends to put on his “Prime Minister” clothes with a view to potential cohabitation in the aisles of the largest international defense and security exhibition. land security.

“This is one of the least controversial subjects with Emmanuel Macronunderlines an RN strategist. We voted in favor of the latest military programming law. text which grants more resources. But the leader of the RN also intends to mark his singularity, as, for example, on nuclear weapons. Out of the question“Europeanize our capacity”as proposed by Emmanuel Macron.

Faced with professionals in the sector, but also the journalists present, Jordan Bardella will not escape questions about Russia and Ukraine. Recently, the RN has distanced itself from Moscow. Long considered close to the Kremlin, the far-right party has shown support for kyiv since the Russian invasion of 2022, but it opposes European economic sanctions against Moscow and has abstained on several occasions on texts in favor of Ukraine, a position which earned him the wrath of the executive.

We no longer hear about the“alliance with Russia” included in the 2022 presidential project, nor the exit from NATO integrated command. Jordan Bardella recently responded: “We don’t change treaties during war.”