'No business being in NATO': Presidential hopeful Melenchon pitches radical new course for France

Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of French far-left opposition party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed - LFI) and candidate for the 2027 French presidential election, delivers a speech during a political rally to present LFI's government program for the presidential election French presidential hopeful Jean-Luc Melenchon on Saturday pledged an economic stimulus programme, including price controls, higher minimum wages and increased taxes on the wealthy, while renewing his call for France to withdraw from NATO. The 75-year-old leader of the left-wing France Unbowed (LFI) party unveiled his 2027 presidential programme at a rally in Le Bourget, near Paris, outlining plans to reverse President Emmanuel Macron's economic policies."We are going to do exactly the opposite — that is to say, a policy of stimulus," Melenchon told supporters at the rally, which drew around 17,000 people, according to his campaign director Manuel Bompard.He said the proposed stimulus would focus on boosting consumer spending and directing existing savings towards social and environmental needs."We have no business being in NATO, nor in American wars," Melenchon said, reiterating his opposition to France's membersh...