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Sunday, July 7, 2024

France avoids fascism in Sunday election, read early reactions from France 24 w transcripts here

"Two factors have changed people's minds about the National Rally. The first one is that it's a party that still does scare quite a lot of French people.“

TRANSCRIPT 1: 

National Rally a party that ‘scares’ people

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At the start of the day I don't think many people in France and throughout the world would have envisaged this turnaround, especially given the polling that we've witnessed. And yet here we are.  Fundamentally what do you put the swing down to? I think there are a few important factors here. First of all you had the National Rally that came first in the European elections last month and came first in the first round of the legislative elections last

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Sunday polling in about 34% now right at the start of the results being given out last weekend it was clear to quite a lot of political analysts that the hope of the national majority they were going to get an overall majority in the National Assembly was not going to happen. It was just going to be very very difficult for them to get the 289 seats they need to be able to obtain that overall majority.

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Now since that happened there's been a coming together of the entire left wing almost in the political Spectrum here in France right from the far left France Anum right up to the Socialist Party the former president Francois Mitterrand  coming together putting their quarrels aside, saying okay we're going to get together to try to beat the National Rally to stop them from taking power. This is called in France a republican front and it's been used several times in the past to try to stop the far right from the extremes from taking power. Now many said it was dead and buried. It wasn't

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Going to work anymore, the National Rally cleaned its image up, it was no longer the national front of Marine Le Pen. It was the National Rally of Marine lepen. She had a brand new president Jordan Bardella, a young respectable vote pulling young man. But behind it all I think that there is a factor here, two factors that have changed people's minds about the National Rally. The first one is that it's a party that still does scare quite a lot of French people whatever they say.

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Whatever they try to betray as being a normal Republican party image, there are those behind who seem to think that maybe it would not be a good idea if the National Rally took power. And the second point is that before this election took place, the National Rally more or less paid to all of its political program by saying well we'd like to do this but we can't do it, wr would like to call for an an end to the retirement bill that Emanuel Macron put through but we can't do that now, we're going to do it later. So all of these different points were put by the wayside. And I think that has

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Dissuaded a lot of people from voting for them. So those two points have made it pretty clear today that the National Rally still has the most number of seats or will have the most number of seats. But it won't have the the the highest number of seats and won't have that overall majority.

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VIDEO 2

French left leads snap election: 'Sigh of relief' in US government

“A lot of important decisions to be made on the world stage in the next week in the aftermath of these elections”

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I've been talking to some US Government sources and it's a bit of a Tale of Two Stories really. The official reaction is of course that the US doesn't comment on domestic politics. And the top line that they gave me for that was regardless of who becomes prime minister, we expect to continue to have a strong partnership and close relationship with the French government. On a range of important issues we don't see that changing. However when you dig a Little Deeper, I asked this Source whether there was a sigh of relief in Washington at the fact that the

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Leftists are the ones that came out on top in this parliamentary election. And that Source said that it was quote a sigh of relief that was because the US really really was monitoring whether the far right would get into government in France. Because that of course would dictate how much money went to things like Ukraine. Macron may be in charge of the defense plan but it is the government which controls the purse strings. And if it was a far-right Government, that could have become a lot

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More difficult. So that was something that Washington was watching closely. They said having a parliament that is more likely to agree to spending measures that Advance transatlantic priorities and security commitments is absolutely a good thing. Now of course this is all against the backdrop here in Washington of the NATO Summit, which is happening this coming week where Macron will be coming to D.C. so a lot of important decisions to be made on the world stage in the next week in the aftermath of these elections

VIDEO 3

“We're headed for a period of instability in France and across Europe with a fragile government Coalition in France.”

France 'avoided worst' with far right loss, Scholz's party spokesman says

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We've had an official comment from the foreign policy spokesman for the SPD which is Char Sal's party Neil Schmidt who's a member of the German bundestag German Parliament has said that the worst has been avoided. Macron is politically weakened even if he retains a central role in view of the unclear majority situation. Forming a government will be Complicated. He's saying that the French must now show flexibility and an

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Ability to compromise to form a working Coalition which is something the Germans know a lot about. But Schmid also added that he thought that these negotiations would be quite long drawn out and and pretty complicated. We've also had reaction from some of the leading German newspapers with Faz da saying the crisis isn't over quite the opposite. We're headed for a period of instability in France and across Europe with a fragile government Coalition in France.

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Build it's the most popular daily in Germany wonders whether Jean Luke michon may become the leader of France. They say he's contemptuous of Germany so they're bit worried about that. And the center Center left daily suda zong says the Republican France stopped Le Pen and RN but parliament's going to be very very fragmented.

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And macron has isolated himself on the Mount Olympus of power. So the German reaction pretty mixed basically. A large doppler of advice there to get your act together and have a coalition work. And some concerns about how that may unfold and what that may mean for Germany and what that may mean for French German relations

END OF TRANSCRIPTS

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Video 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQkFDIyCr1c

Video 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz-o9FUumAI

Video 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z1ZTXLQYks

All from FRANCE 24 English politics 

 

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