The Republicans, a celebration extra actually aligned with Gaullism in issues of worldwide regulation | EUROtoday

Can we think about Jacques Chirac, in his time, validating the kidnapping of a international head of state by the United States? Arriving within the Gaullist household in his early fifties, Bruno Retailleau was by no means a Chiraquian and took up the protection of multilateralism expensive to the previous President of the Republic (1995-2007) and, with it, a sure thought of ​​worldwide regulation that had lengthy been within the majority inside his political household. When the president of the Les Républicains (LR) social gathering discusses the constitution of the United Nations (UN), Thursday January 8 on France Inter, he cites article 51 to debate the “self-defense”. To hear it, “the Americans were founded” to resort to this text on the premise of accusations of “drug trafficking”it being understood that Venezuelan Nicolas Maduro was “an individual and not a president”.

Without having transformed to Trumpism, Bruno Retailleau validates a supposed precept of actuality: in a world now devolved to predators, drive would prevail over regulation. France and Europe are subsequently requested to grasp this and adapt within the title of this realpolitik. On this level, the senator from Vendée is aligned with Edouard Philippe. “The loud cries about international law falling apart seem to me to be a form of myopia”judged the president of Horizons in an interview with FigaroJanuary 6. In 2003, the present mayor of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) was nonetheless a younger government of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) when his boss, Jacques Chirac, opposed American intervention in Iraq and defended “multilateralism as the only way to organize international society”.

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