this option is a “serious error”, believes Marion Maréchal

“This is an option put on the table by Emmanuel Macron and I consider it a serious error”, declared Wednesday June 5 on franceinfo Marion Maréchal, head of the list of the Reconquête party! in the European elections. The candidate reacts to the fact that Paris and kyiv are discussing sending French military instructors to Ukraine, two days before Emmanuel Macron receives his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky at the Elysée.

“Sending French troops today to Ukraine means taking the risk that France will enter directly into this conflict, going to war against Russia”, continues Marion Maréchal. According to her, it is “irresponsible to imagine being able to play war in this way with a nuclear power which has other nuclear powers alongside it”.

The head of the list believes that Emmanuel Macron is “very nice” to want to do “the policeman of the world, beyond our borders” but she believes that other priorities are more urgent. She points in particular to the fact that “the State is incapable of ensuring its authority over a certain number of French territories such as New Caledonia where republican order has still not been restored”.

Furthermore, according to the candidate, France has an army “which is not capable – after decades of bad decisions – of holding a front of more than 100 km in a high-intensity war, when in Ukraine it is a front of more than 1,000 km”. She adds : “We don’t have three days of ammunition ahead of us” And “we have 200 tanks available when 20 per day are destroyed in Ukraine”. Marion Maréchal therefore calls to be “reasonable when we play with the security and territorial integrity of the French”.