"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
0:30
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.
0:57
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
1:30
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.
2:00
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
2:32
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”
0:00
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
1:00
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
0:30
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.
1:02
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.
1:30
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
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