Emmanuel Macron tries to rally parliamentarians to the coalition of the prepared mission in Ukraine | EUROtoday

Two days after the summit of the coalition of volunteers, organized in Paris, Tuesday January 6, Emmanuel Macron introduced collectively, Thursday January 8, the political forces represented in Parliament, to current to them the mission for the deployment of a number of thousand French troopers in Ukraine, as soon as a peace settlement has been concluded.

A closed-door assembly attended by the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, the Minister of the Armed Forces, Catherine Vautrin, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, General Fabien Mandon, the presidents of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, and of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, the presidents of the parliamentary teams, the get together leaders and the presidents of the international affairs and protection committees in Parliament. That is to say round thirty folks, confined for nearly three hours within the winter backyard of the Elysée Palace. All political forces responded, together with probably the most reluctant, to sending troops to Ukraine, such because the National Rally (RN) and La France insoumise (LFI).

Several personalities had been, nonetheless, excused and represented : the president of the Les Républicains (LR) group within the National Assembly, Laurent Wauquiez, retained in his constituency, the president of the Union of Democrats and Independents, Hervé Marseille, and the president of the MoDem, François Bayrou, who attended a funeral, in addition to the president of Horizons, Edouard Philippe, stranded in Le Havre by the Goretti storm.

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