The leader of the party La France Insoumise (Unbowed France), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, lambasted the possibility of Georgia joining the alliance and admitted that he considers accusations of being a Russian agent to be an honour.
The leader of the left-wing La France Insoumise (Unbowed France), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who contested Emmanuel Macron in the 2017 presidential election, has taken aim at NATO while campaigning ahead of the upcoming European elections.
“It is in your interest to have members of parliament who will not take part in the anti-Russian and pro-NATO hysteria raging in the European Parliament”, he said, Le Figaro reports.
He also denounced Georgia’s reported aspirations to join the alliance as “a crude and stupid provocation”. He went on to warn against repeating the scenario of Ukraine, which he said “would put us in the hands of the irresponsible”, arguing that NATO is “a military coalition that we do not run”. He concluded that Europeans “have no interest in escalating tensions” with Russia.