Manon Aubry, MEP La France insoumise, was the guest of “8:30 am franceinfo”, Saturday September 25, 2021. Death of a French soldier in Mali, presidential election 2022 … She answers the questions of Ersin Leibowitch and Myriam Encaoua .
“Accelerate the withdrawal schedule” from the Sahel
In the aftermath of the death of Master Corporal Maxime Blasco in Mali during an operation against a terrorist group in Mali, Manon Aubry believes that he “must speed up the withdrawal schedule” French soldiers in the Sahel. “I think that we must have a democratic debate on a military operation which has become a quagmire in Mali. The least of things is that we can, with the representatives in Parliament, have a debate on the reasons for this mission and the disengagement schedule “, believes the MEP.
According to Manon Aubry, Emmanuel Macron “has chosen a very gradual and very long disengagement”. “The debate arises in view of the situation on the ground and the far too large number of victims in this military operation”, she adds.
Presidential 2022: “A union behind a program”
Seven months before the presidential election in France, Manon Aubry describes Jean-Luc Mélenchon as “a pole of stability on the left”. “Today Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a compass on the sharing of wealth, on democratic reform and the Sixth Republic”, she judges.
Regarding a union on the left, if the candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon did not take off, “it depends with who” Judge Manon Aubry. “Yes, the Sixth Republic Arnaud Montebourg defends it, the wage increases the communists defend it, the ecological planning the Greens defend them”, she notes. “I am defending a union behind a program that is as broad as possible, so if some people find themselves behind this program, let’s discuss it and go to the end.”
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