She doesn't want out of NATO entirely. She wants out of the NATO integrated military command structure
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Wednesday, April 13, asserted that she will move France out of the NATO alliance's military command if she wins the ongoing presidential elections, Sputnik reported. However, Marine Le Pen stressed that she does not want France to leave the bloc and only wants the country to move out of its command structure. Notably, Le Pen will face French President Emmanuel Macron in the second round of elections in France slated to be held on April 24.
Marine Le Pen further stressed that France had already experienced it in 1966 when French armed forces had been removed from NATO''s integrated military command. Furthermore, all non-French NATO troops had been ordered to leave the country. She highlighted that France reversed the decision and joined NATO's military command in 2009. Over the years, the National Rally leader has been repeatedly calling on France to exit NATO's integrated command stressing that the structure "perpetuates the anachronistic and aggressive logic of the Cold War bloc," as per the Sputnik report.
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