our correspondent azadeh moshiri is in place de la republique.eftist coalition at stalingrad. looking at some of the responses from socialists tonight part of this leftist coalition, one saying we had an electoral pact but not legislative. trying to keep the president out of the leftist coalition might be difficult for emmanuel macron. that coalition might be difficult for emmanuel macron.— coalition might be difficult for emmanuel macron. that is the question. _ emmanuel macron. that is the question. now— emmanuel macron. that is the question, now that _ emmanuel macron. that is the question, now that the - emmanuel macron. that is the question, now that the new i emmanuel macron. that is the i question, now that the new front, the popular front has question, now that the new front, the popularfront has had question, now that the new front, the popular front has had such a victory in keeping the far right at bay, what do they do next? this is the point where they have to come together and find some sort of deal, coordinate on what happens next,

after the first forecasts were released, thousands of french people gathered at the place de la républiqueest against the far right, but will there be an effect? the scenes were reminiscent of the protests against jean-mri lepenne, marin's father, who reached the second round of the presidential election in 2002. as a candidate for the party known as the national front. then parties and voters united against the far right. put aside their differences to defeat an extreme candidate in a policy known as the cordon sanitaire. but over the past two decades, european politics has changed dramatically. macron's allies now face enormous pressure to drop out of the race in many constituencies and are advising their supporters to vote for a left-wing alliance to try to defeat lepin. after a minute we'll be back. limiters in previous episodes. oh, masha, let's get busy, goodbye! three friends decide to start a new life in the city, well, according to the advertisement, fill out the form, at the factory they meet ivan and fall in love with him, maybe you need something, maybe you’re missing something

large rally. in paris, on the place de la république, young people gathered to remember a teenager ofan origin who died from a police bullet a year ago in the suburbs of the capital, who was stopped by police for numerous violations of traffic rules and used weapons, for migrants, for all acceptance, for minorities, for open borders, adoption of all universal social assistance, repeal of pension reform, such a left-wing program would cost the budget billions in additional expenses, experts say. let me remind you that we borrow 740 million euros on the market every day. indeed, the national unification program involves, i can’t give an exact figure right now, hundreds of billions of additional expenses. national front - 200-250. these programs simply will not be implemented. unfortunately, i think voters are well aware of this . the french have someone to thank for such a state of the economy, from which macron, nor his economy minister bruno lumer. having failed to bring russia to its knees, he could not get out. everything could have been done much better. obviously, we did a lot to

a large rally in paris on the place de la république brought together young people who remembered theho died from a bullet a year ago. does much better, obviously, we did a lot to increase wages, but a disaster happened, i readily admit it, in 2023 everything collapsed on us, incomes fell, we are at the level of 5.5% of gdp. in '24 we adopted necessary decisions to be at the 5.1% level. in 2027 we will be at the level of 3%, within the limits provided by the european commission. this is generally economic nonsense, minister of economy and finance. we risk getting an ungovernable parliament and i think that the president of the republic should at least take the maximum term of 40 days, because if we rush through the elections, if we stir up people, that his father tried to protect his son from attacks, saying, that macron had long complained that the national assembly had become uncontrollable. the decision to dissolve was not a result of the european elections, he already spoke to me about this 2 months ago, in fact he believed that the national assembly had become uncontrollable. but

de la république in paris to protest against the entry of the right into government the scenes weret of the protests against marine lepine's father, jean-marie lepine in 2002, when he also had a good chance of winning the presidency and a cordon sanitaire was established against him in the second round. when other parties joined forces to prevent him from coming to power, but since then analysts point out that the political situation, in particular in france, has changed dramatically. gabriel ottal admitted that after the first round of parliamentary elections it had already become obvious that he the government will not be able to implement the reforms it promised. according to the latest figures, the national unification received more than 33% of the votes in the first round, the left-wing new popular front received 28. the left and the macronists will be removed in the second . now the main question is: how many candidates from the round to create that same sanitary cordon to block the right in those areas , where three candidates each advanced to the second round. acceptance of

a large rally in paris on the place de la république brought together young people who remembered thepoliceman who died from a bullet a year ago in the suburbs of the capital, a teenager of algerian origin, who was stopped by the police for numerous violations of traffic rules and used weapons, for migrants, for all acceptance, for minorities, for open borders, acceptance of all, all universal social... assistance, the abolition of pension reform, such a left-wing program would cost the budget billions in additional expenses, experts say. let me remind you that we borrow 740 million euros on the market every day. indeed, the program of national unification assumes, i can’t now name the exact figure, a hundred billion additional expenses. national front - 200-250. these programs simply will not be implemented. unfortunately, i think voters are well aware of this . the french have someone to thank for this state of the economy, from which neither macron nor his minister of economy bruno liemer , who was unable to bring russia to its knees, was able to get out. everything could have been

de la république in paris, where the ultra-leftists have gathered and are shouting, everyone hates bardelal front, well , what bardela calls an alliance of dishonor is perceived in france completely differently, the leader of the socialists, raphael glucksman says , we are leaders, but we are... in a divided assembly and we will have to act like adults, we will have to speak, we will have to to discuss, we will have to conduct a dialogue, something that marine le pen and jean-luc mélenchon, the leader of the far right and the leader of the far left, have never been able to do - they are practically the same person, it's just that she is somewhere very far to the right, but very far to the left, but they are people completely incapable of any real dialogue, people... who were intoxicated by the thirst for power, both of them ran many times for the position of president of the french republic, this is all that interests them in life. melenchon falls asleep and says: i want to be president of the french republic, le pen wakes up, gathers her nieces, says: i want to be the president of the fre

our correspondent azadeh moshiri is in place de la republique. she has some people with her. are all police cars, they've dispersed us, fireworks were going off, people were celebrating. some people are still refusing to come down, but it was not violence. it was celebratory. people, police wanted it to be safe and dispel people. once all the celebrations and, once the police shifts are over, these left leaders need to come together and figure out what to do next. because while everyone here has been celebrating keeping the far right at bay, not everyone agrees with each other. i do want to bring in one person who has been attending these celebrations. you have been celebrating. you support the popular front, do you not?— front, do you not? exactly. i su ort front, do you not? exactly. i support the _ front, do you not? exactly. i support the party _ front, do you not? exactly. i support the party and - front, do you not? exactly. i support the party and we - front, do you not? exactly. i| support the party and we are front, do you not? exactly. i- support the party and we ar

our correspondent azadeh moshiri is in place de la republique. all the supporters in euphoric mood?p, crowds parted as he walked through, it feels like a coronation, he has now taken to the stage out here among some of his supporters and is about to deliver a speech, not everyone supports him, one person here, you don't support the man everyone is cheering for. i support jean—luc melenchon. i supportjean—luc melenchon. for 15 years _ i supportjean—luc melenchon. for 15 years but _ i supportjean—luc melenchon. for 15 years. but this time it was difficult _ years. but this time it was difficult to support what he was saying — difficult to support what he was saying. and why is that? because some _ saying. and why is that? because some questions were not explained in a very— some questions were not explained in a very good _ some questions were not explained in a very good way, i think. what some questions were not explained in a very good way, i think.— a very good way, i think. what is our a very good way, i think. what is your reaction? _ a very good way, i think. what is your react

after the first forecasts were released, thousands of french people gathered at place de la républiquen effect? the scenes were reminiscent of the protests against jean-mri lepenne, marin's father, who entered the second round of the 2002 presidential election as a candidate. from the party known as the national front, back then, parties and voters united against the far right, putting aside their differences to defeat the fringe candidate in a policy known as the cordon sanitaire, but european politics have changed dramatically over the past two decades, with macron's allies now facing enormous pressure to drop out of the race in many constituencies and advises his supporters to vote for the leftist alliance in an attempt to defeat lepin. let's move to europe. anastasia popova, head of our european bureau in direct contact. hello nastya! so, what happened, and all this is of interest, of course, from the point of view of relations with russia, to the great european conflict that we are experiencing. evgenia, well , nothing really has happened yet, except for the historical result of t

0ur correspondent azadeh moshiri is in place de la republique.owds. everyone is gathering and walking in that direction to the place to celebrate a huge victory. cheering it is about a ten minute walk from here, everyone is gathered together, cars have been honking, coffee shops have been busy, as soon as the crowds come by, people talk about how happy they are, people raise glasses. in terms ofjean—luc melenchon, he wasjubilant glasses. in terms ofjean—luc melenchon, he was jubilant to write, at stalingrad here so it was almost like a coronation, a lot of the parties, health of green t—shirts, green flags, they don't particularly want to work with jean—luc melenchon, there is a lack of trust. many of them believe he wants to put his own radical left agenda first even though he has promised he would put the new popular front agenda first. when it comes to the centrists, they don't want to work with him at all. we are yet to hear from emmanuel macron himself but he said beforehand that when it comes tojean—luc melenchon, some of the supporters you

they won, >> there were some people who were celebrating at the place de la republique in paris yesterdayrd, and also, as you know, people who are wearing masks yesterday in france, were fighting with the police and fire officers. so it was quite a messy scene last night. >> sorry, alex. was this the far right or the far left that was doing the rioting or a bit of both? >> it was far left to people who were who were rioting yesterday because, they still seemed unhappy. there's a hung parliament in france and there's no really political solution, so they might either be a coalition or emmanuel macron will have to work with several parties to in to order form a government that will take several months to or weeks. >> well, thank you very much indeed, alex. great to speak to you. alex seal, freelance journalist specialising in french and european politics. writing, it's a bit of the national sport, isn't it? >> sore winners really, aren't they? >> it's very odd, isn't it, to. i guess if you're having a celebration, it can easily go into a bit of rioting. easily done. no. >> well i just yeah.