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yet again a manual macaroni murray le pen will fight for the top job in france. the 1st round of the big finish with no play when it is a tight race in the 2nd round the can the far right when and what would that mean for from this is inside story. ah hello, welcome to the program. i'm nick clock. president macro is in the north of france, already campaigning for a runoff election on april. the 24th. he's on top after the 1st round of voting

took place on sunday, and he wants to become a 1st french president to be reelected in the last 20 years. but his content them are in the pen is not far behind. determined to start her own presidency by winning the runoff polling suggests a much tighter race this time than when the 2 laws faced each other back in 2017. then more than 26 percent of the population abstained from costing appellate on the 1st round. but as smith filed this report now from pears, emanuel micron only did one campaign rally, but the man who brands himself a centrist did enough to have a chance of being the 1st incumbent french president in 20 years to win a 2nd term. again, though, you'll have to beat the fall rights at do know completely a he says so tony, the alleged assume to all the french who chose to have slain or the vote on the extreme asked is either because they're angry, faced with persistent inequality, a damaged planet is though every day insecurity the difficulty to make

a decent living display working hard and heavy wooden. i want to convince him in the coming days. his opponent in the 2nd round of voting will again be maureen le pen, leader of the national rally. it's manifesto includes a promise to make it illegal for muslim women to wear had scarves, in public places. they were covered. the pony official, your vote depends all over the french territory on the legitimate preponderance of the french culture and language. the customs of our agents and the french way of life on republican laws and values. you can le pen might pick up votes from supporters of air exam or another extreme right candidates. the former tv pond. it has asked his supporters to backer in the 2nd round. the far left john luke melon, shawn had hoped that this time he might make it to the run off. but again, he didn't quite get enough votes. francis traditional right and left wing parties continue to hemorrhage support the conservative, the republicans party,

and the valerie pay. chris saw their share of the vote collapsed a single digits. the socialists on the ann hidalgo had been all but wiped out their share of the boat, barely registered. the beneficiary of those former conservative in socialist votes, seems again to be micron. we ought to be asked the fringes. ringback to support the to the a sarong european friends for the next turn of the election in 2 weeks repugnant. i believe we have a good record and we have a wax our plan with the vision to the future for the young, our country and for the workers often to the left, macro has promised higher pensions and more staff in health care for the right thousands more police officers and judges, and a rise in the retirement age from 62 to 65. so now they'll be 2 weeks of intense campaigning for emanuel micron, a marine la pen. most of the losing candidates have urged their supporters not to let the pen wins of a cron could benefit from their votes. but the far right when i combined

33 percent share the vote in the 1st round. so an upset cannot be ruled. bernard smith, inside story, paris, where the merging of the right wing into the far right is one of the biggest of elements of this election. a marine le pen and at exam was combined at poll ratings amount to an unprecedented 30 percent plus for the far right in front. his parties are more united than those on the left. the far right agree on what they say is the necessity for france to reestablish is fuel is full sovereignty from the european union. they also want to limit or end immigration. and some of the right wing go as far as saying islam is incompatible with the french republic. over the past 2 years, they have spread from a fringe of movement to a mainstream political force in france. and that's been fueled by economic grievances and security phase after ice of attacks on french soil. ah, all right,

let's bring in our guests from paris. we have jaguar land who is the senior research fellow at the global policy institute from newcastle in england on state bobby and ballgame. this is see the electra in french and politics at north humbert university. and elizabeth mutate joins us. she's of paris based columns for the telegraph and unheard online magazine, a war welcome to you all. everybody will look at the results 1st and then we'll project on to what might happen in the 2nd round. and the crucial parliamentary elections in the coming tv debate. but 1st, the 1st round results and, and elizabeth, you have written how append was all my so right off 3 months ago. what happened? well, i also wrote last week that she had made an extraordinary come back, actually almost a resurrection. and it's very interesting because it's combination of what she been trying to do for the past, at least for 5 years. and a situation in which she mechanically looked more quote,

unquote moderate because of the advent of innings in a new player who's a former columnist for luciano and who looked and sounded more hall line than she she did. so suddenly, the entire effort that she's put into rebranding her party changing the name from national front to natural rally, which is more consensual turning down had cat form. and we can talk about this further, herb and even sort of are giving off personal vibes of her personality as being somebody who was milder and was less abrasive. somebody who gave us more rallies on her competitors and didn't shy from admitting to mistakes from saying that things were sometimes think went wrong. all of this built up a kind of constituency that related to her and a you, everybody is sort of been counting the removal vote into the marine loop and vote

in 2 weeks time. she is actually, she's got a call consistency. there were people that voted communist 25 years ago, and she at least one 3rd of zoning mit awful, the hob left his voters may actually vote for her into he. so because she speaks for the working class and she has a very left wing social program in terms of benefit and changes, except that she wants it only for the french that i remember going to agree with other what, what's your overview of how this pan bout yeah, i agree with what so been good. i think a strategy paid off. she decided very early on that she would focus on cost of living and it has been wrong thing. and from the, you know, i've has just been said she was made even more moderate by, by the more. and i think as well, for me had a really bad campaign in the 1st round. you know,

it's talking very late. he refused to do the any debate messaging with parable because the main take away the voters order revolt if you don't have time for the nation to read through the program line by line. the only thing that they remembered was you have to work longer. so it's a strategy paid off and there was also some tactical voting from voter and from the republican right. just to ensure that that she's in the 2nd round. so i agree with what's been said, but i think we shouldn't underestimate. also about mac, who had a campaign in my, in my opinion, or macro, had a bad campaign jack, jack, right? long. do you think the 1st round ended up being tighter than a manual macro? thought it would. yes, i'm sure. yes, i agree with both. both speakers that both look bad,

maybe would come back. my call made a terrible campaign. and after you suffer from hovers that you know, especially to reform the pension that he wants to raise to 65. you announced it in his 1st being addressed to the french people at the time where i was writing at 32 percent in the opinion. both but in some measure, which as actually is priest. many people in france working to 65, it was and solely king some. so jury benefits to extra work or training on the part of workers that as upsets a lot of people on the left. add that swear, yes. to gain some support. that's why many people on the left is push far as opposed to mac, whole. there's a sense of atrial even tools towards him and no e, i think he's realized mistake. and that each time before that he needed to take votes

away from valerie because, but as we see, but because there's 400 or 5 percent that the many votes to get there. if he wants to gain votes into going around in depth to go from the left. so the lead job, this campaign will have to judge it would have to come paid, which was an alphabet measure add that would be debate. and he asked to show to the french people in his program, you know, just very lieber. all right, we program. but as it's a balance program with measures to help do working is for the week, which is which is starting to take it by going campaigning on the hunting around the fall dollar. georgie, rather not in the pending and prompts, you know, town where the majority of people voted on the bed, and he has to convince them that is what he sees will be more beneficial to those

of robin. and i don't think it would be difficult because lupins is going to be program dependence made lot of promises to people. the speed she made last night. there was one for every one she was read. you know, we do 40 or do you sit there or it was released, it was a catch. sure. got up. ok, those will be back with g. let me lou john lives with jack says jack right on says i was with the micro has realized his mistake. will it be enough or himself admit, said it is certainly not over yet. and poll predictions for the 2nd round a well within the margin of error as a report a bonus. smith says it's not out of his world to imagine that the pen could women. i think yes, it's very interesting because the cross voting and the people who sort of voted on one side are going to vote for somebody who you wouldn't think at 1st hand is, i mean, major just i've just mentioned the been awful voters voting for

a minute then, but on the other side you've got, you've got, i know them will voters who will vote for amendment mcclure because they felt right your raleigh, that their candidate was still forward looking and modern and wanted to create a sort of lod right wing party that would have been something like, i don't know if you in british terms, the tory penalty with ada nigel, for instance. whereas they caught, they find that many append is much more rigid and, and back is looking. and that constituency does exist a it's, i mean it's a college, it's bank obligated to calculate to be a vote on either side. i think manual michael probably should win it. but the entire campaign has been painted in the 1st and 2nd round, as the 1st round is very new. as a kind of what again the british would call project fear. the other one is evil. so on, on the, on the hard right. you people say a blog, emmanuel mccoy is the man who's bringing in foreigners,

he's the man who is abandoning sovereignty of frost to europe. all sorts of things . and only other side. you got essentially the great line of you know, less find let's have a new of home open for she isn't, which was a great movement. again, fascism in the $900.00 thirty's in france and it's not going to be a very grown up campaign. and when i end up and shrewd, that is, that she's always brings back of the situation with the hardships that people are experienced. and especially now that inflation is giving up my whole now suffer some something from last time. last time he was new, many people voted for him because he was a new guy. he was younger, he annoyed all the others and therefore he was a safe populous vote. you to somebody who still had of the competencies within the french tech, new structure, and somebody who are annoyed, the other candidate encumbrance rested left and right. this time he's been in power for 5 years. in his big rally, athletic falls, west paris. he talked about a personal talk to not doctors,

he talked about all the people who were suffering and the immediate reaction of so many people his well it, who was president at that time you were so it's, it's going to be diet is difficult to predict. i still think like the book makers that michael will it squeeze through, but it's going to be, it's going to be difficult. there is as long last in this content, isn't there ever over his person over macros? personality is deemed oregon by many and maybe that was, that arrogance was on display in the fact that he didn't take part in much of the electoral campaign. ariano again, how do you see it putting out this? the 2nd round? yeah, again, i agree. it's going to be much tighter than in $1717.00, it was a new kid on the block. a lot of people get into, but if it would not be covered, you know, we have a whole presidency under itself. people know what he did. he generated a lot of anger, of hatred in some quarters,

a lot of these conferences and so it's much easier for money. and i've been to the point, this is what do you want to spend her 5 job. whereas in 17, it was i, i, professors of what, what he might do. i think it will really come down to extension right. on the left to how many voters, 3, how many middle shall we switch? and there was a study this morning, i believe that suggested 30 percent of middle school, both to 30 percent will vote for the ben. this is going to be the crucial point. how high the sumption going to be on the left, and how many filters for middle shall be switched? i think he might squeeze through, but it's not going to be, you know, 6634 like it won't last time. right? shark that's, that's very interesting, isn't it? it will be key. the number of abstentions went it because i, you know, isn't abstaining effectively a vote for the pen?

yes, the fall has been optional. scott, so them an appeal was too sensitive. people do not vote for knowledge, but you know, say, vote for my coat, right. you'll see, but that's been, that's been the case for most of the leaders, except if, except exam moore and it's your t as a republican. because becca. so there's a few people of called for vote to what to look at. they quite looked at said even the left you a clue. jesus go of clearly said very because i scared. he said that she would, she would vote for my call as far as id, more agree with. and he's a read them some. some of them will not want to vote for a pen because to figure it couldn't be programmed isn't going to add. thus, we can see dividing for also mccall peters to, to the false,

the french while doing well and not pen up is 2 doors while you talk to make ends meet. but in the debate, that's why i think the key point would be for my call to show in the next 2 weeks. that is, program is the one who is best suited to the interest of the working class, people in order to repent. and it does, it that says is got something to back it up because is record is very good, especially unemployment during his mandate ball that 1200000 jobs were created in france. improvement rate is that it's lower than it's been for a long time. it was not even an issue. the issue was the cost of living and even dep, my call will be able to prove if there is a debate, debate on television will be crucial. whether that in japan as improved or competence in the field of england makes right. because because she really

struggled back in 2017 and she was a jack says the tv debate, i think it's on the 20th is going to be real pivot point. yes. definitely, i mean, last time around it was, it was a count crushed and it really cost a deity. i mean, she appeared to incompetence in 2017. so, you know, you, you would think that she would have learned from it unless she would be a bit better row. but yeah, it is going to be crucial. you know, we'll have to, you know, to push on all or economy from it. because if you look at a program, it's something for ethic would be great. but how do you finance it? so he will ask or all those questions and we have to whole go. she does much better than 17 because otherwise it would be very easy for michael to, to highlight that she does. she's incompetent, but she doesn't have to come in. so she doesn't know how to get to deal with christ

is the way you have to do during, during the present presidency, so that the bass case was in mighty okay, i'd like to continue that conversation, but we got to move it on. i want to talk about the, the french, traditional parties, analysts, but we only got 6 or 7 minutes left. what does this mean? what's happening here for french politics? is that it for the traditional policies for the conservative right in the socialist left. i think it's, i think it's actually rather bad because what we end up having is on one candidate of the great and the good who is immigrant for i'm to essentially bogey men or women bodie purses and and that's not good for democracy. you no longer have in a position do who you disagree with, but uh, they are honorable people. and that's a real problem. and that is entirely the doing of women, wilma,

or he came 5 years ago, seemingly out of nowhere. he been in the cabinet for 18 months or with foster and on so soon as he was not a member of the socialist party himself. when he came in, he said, i'm going to do things on them to at the same time. left and right. you don't have to choose between left and right. and he started shaving off personalities from the the right on the left. and you always picked sort of compatible josiah personalities. and he gave them jobs and forbade them to have political ideas of their own. and then he people the national assembly with essentially close of himself in many ways. and the result was a sort of anemic and national, some politics life which reduced the the, the extent of the debate that i think is about the democracy. i think he because he, at the end of the day who his nature is that he's also that he's a top mandarin. he was at the minister finance. he graduated top of his class, all the top of his class at another branch government school. he's used to people

obeying him and not people talking back to them. okay. and that's really why he decided that he would make a new system at his image, which i think is really wrong for democracy jacket. do you think, in a sense, a macro, nearby emasculating, the traditional parties is actually empowered his own opposition? at what is very interesting is, yes, mccaul destroyed the socialist party into 17. and now he has destroyed the there. i directly couldn't talk to the 2 bodies. we shall do me a french critical life for the last few years in tatters. so was going to happen after my call, as you can sure got already to be door. and what you're going to see on the right is a read composition. i have right loop and the deep orange ribbon week on party. we'll back to bed like,

shoot the right wing because we're split like this. so should is sprint in 2017 between governance and, and more radical press does a more voters, all of that would add up to a very all right. on the right, which could gather about 3025 percent of the of the, of the voters as of but he sees have been similar to the british story body. very national that he's a very protection is and i just same died a very style to foreigners, so that's, that's likely it will be likely to help and who will see joined power, monterey addiction. ok, i would shake up if i say that i'm going to just because i need to be need to get into parliamentary elections or any got a couple of minutes left. i'm sorry to interrupt a jack abbey and a president with the majority has no power. we got the parliamentary elections coming up in the summer. traditionally. you know, the winning presidency gets the majority in parliament. jake is going to be

different ball game this time around. yes. oh, certainly it's melinda. and when we know that ever since they've changed the timing of. ringback parliamentary election and put them after residential election. there's a momentum going in. however, i don't seem to have been winning an absolute majority just on the road. we also know the power tracks. i'm sure she would be able to attract people, you know, coming from the traditional, right? possibly even people from the last 2 or more that kind of summer, summer in it. so earnest, sorry, less. but it is going to be difficult to get a majority. and obviously, depending on maturity she will be able to implement a program or not. we might even end up in a period of computation. you never know if she wins and people suddenly fail, right. ok, we better refine this, we might end up with

a socially left wing prime minister. so it's very much i think you are right to the point to do parliament your leg. ringback is the key election because a majority president, you know, half power? if not when i think it's more likely for him to have a maturity, maybe not an absolute majority, but enough to crate. you know, what kind of coalition of the willing so to speak. ok. i will constantly thought of as it goes here. now does, there are over the next 2 weeks, very close to the data. so we got time for jacqueline, a lot of younger game, anders, but we take, we do appreciate your time and your perspective on this. thanks a lot. thank you too for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website out there a dot com and for further discussion, just go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside story. you can also join the conversational twitter handle

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