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yet again, emanuel macaroni murray le pen will fight for the top job in france. the 1st round of the vic finish with no play went up. it's 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 the 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 may fall, this report now from parents. emanuel micron only did one campaign rally, but the man who bronze 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 2 local betty a he says so tony the left assume to all the french who chose to have slain or the vote on the extreme 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 at of is what 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 pawn 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, he 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 less 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 socialist and an hidalgo had been all but wiped out their share of the boat, barely registered. the beneficiary of those former conservative and socialists votes seems again to be my cron. we ought to be asked the french, brutal to support the to the a sarong you've been friends for the next turn of the election in 2 weeks repugnant . i believe we have a good record and we have a white cap plan with the vision to the future. for the young, our country and for the workers often to the left, micron 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 emmanuel micron, a marine la pen. most of the losing candidates have urged their supporters not to let the pen when some a cron could benefit from their votes. but the far right when

a combined 33 percent share of the vote in the 1st round. so an upset cannot be ruled and bernard smith, inside story, paris, where the merging of the right wing into the far right is one of the biggest developments of this election. a marine le pen and exit moore's. combined 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 re establish if 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 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 jack were alarmed, who is the senior research fellow at the global policy institute from newcastle in england on skype id on ballgame whose is celia 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 comeback, actually, almost a resurrection. and it's very interesting because it's combination of what she'd been trying to do for the past, at least for 5 years. and a situation in which she,

a mechanically looked more, quote, unquote moderate because of the advent of innings in a new player who's a former columnist for rufio, 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 our 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 know, everybody is sort of been counting the removal vote into the money le pen 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 jolie's mid awful. the hob left his voters may actually vote for her into the site 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, the other. i'm 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 will focus on cost of living and it has been wrong thing. and from the has just been said, she would make 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 started very late and he refused to do any any. but messaging was terrible because the main take away got voters ordered a refill. just 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. i also had a campaign in my, in my opinion, or macro, had a bad campaign jack, jack read long. do you think the 1st round ended up being tighter than a man? will 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 suffered from hovers that especially to reform the pension h that you want to raise to 65, you announced it in his 1st big address to the french people. at the time, why was roger got 32 percent in the opinion both. but in some measure, which as actually is priest, many people in france, networking to 65, it was and sorely getting some super jury benefits to extra work or training on the part of workers that has upset that other people on the left. add that swear. yes, to gain some support. that's why many people on the left is push on the fall. very opposed to michael. there's a sense of atrial even tools towards him, and no way you'd be stake. and that each

time before that he needed to take your votes away from the battery because but as we see, but because us for the 5 percent that the many votes to be gained there. if he wants to gain votes into civil, ronald is death to go from the left. so the lead job is campaign we'd have to judge . you would have to come pain, which war analysis or measure ad. there would be debate and he asked to show to the french people in his program, you know, just very liberal or right we program. but as it's a balance program with measures to help do working jobs is and for the week, which is which is starting to take him by going campaigning all the hunting around . this honest all georgie rather not even penny and france, you know, town where the majority of people voted for millions of ed and he has to convince them that is what he sees will be more beneficial to death. those of the bed. and i

don't think it would be difficult because lupins is going to be program dependence made lot of promises or people the speech she made last night. there was one for every one she was be just doing do 40 or do you sit there? are it was released. it was a catch. sure. got up. ok. all right. we'll be back with g let. john lives with jack says jack right on says i was with it, the micro has realized his mistake. will it be enough? i 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 reporter, bernard smith says. ready it's not out of his world to imagine that the pen could when 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 that been awful voters voting for

a minor bear, but on the other side you've got, you've got, i know the more voters who will vote for amendment mcclure, because they felt like you're raleigh, that their candidate was still forward looking and modern and wanted to create a sort of lod writing party that would have been something like, i don't know if you, in british terms, the tory party with added nigel for our, for instance. whereas they caught, they find that many append is much more rigid and, and back is looking and that constituency does exist on the it's, i mean it's a calling, it's very complicated to calculate to be a vote on either side, i think in menu, or 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 book, emmanuel mccoy's, the man who's bringing in foreigners. he's the man who is abandoning sovereignty of

frogs to europe. all sorts of things. and only other side. you got essentially the great line of, you know, let's find, let's have a new of portable can for she isn't which was a great movement. again, fascism in the $900.00 pounds 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 other situation with the hardships that people experience and especially now that inflation is giving up my call now suffer some something from last time. last time he was new, and 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 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 care homes, personal talk to not doctors,

he talked about also the people who were suffering and the immediate reaction of so really people his well it, who was president at that time you were a 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 michael's personality is deemed arden by many and maybe that was that arrogance was on display in the fact that he didn't take part in much of a 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 tied to that in $77.00 pinot with the new kid on the block. a lot of people get into bed with now is the common. you know, we have a whole presidency under its belt. people know what did he generated a lot of hatred, 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 this done for 5 job was 7. it was i, i, professors, of what of what he might do. i think it will really come down to the center right. on the left to how many voters, 3, how many middle shall we switch to the event? there was a study this morning. i believe that suggested will epstein middle school both to 30 percent will vote for the band. this is going to be the crucial point. how high the sumption going to be on the left, and how many totes are familiar with which i think in my squeeze room, but it's not going to be, you know, 6634 like it last time. right? shock. that's it. 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 from the pen. yes,

the fall has been shown. so them an appeal was too sensitive. people do not vote for money to pay. 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 move, and it's your t as a ripper. because pics has becca. so there's a few people of called for vote to what to live in the quite your look said. even the left, you a call to jason, go up clearly sensitive and very because i clearly said that she will short vote for my call. as far as it will be great with these of them some, some of them will not want to vote for it because the think of it can be programmed as incoherent ad. thus, we can see in this dividing process mccall peters to,

to the false. the french while doing well, and not look up these 2 doors. well, you talk to make ends meet, but into 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 going out to repent and it gives you that says is got something to back it up because is record is very good, especially on broadman 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 death back home 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 feel of it been a mix, right?

because because she really struggled back in 2017. and she as a jack says the tv debate, i think it's on the 20th, is going to be a real pivot point. yes, definitely. i mean, really, it was a count crush and it really costs you to be really. 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 have to, you know, to push on all or economy promises because if you look at a program, it's something for ethic would be great. but how do your finances so he will ask, or all those questions might have to whole go. she does much better than 17 because otherwise it would be very easy for michael to, to highlight that she, that she's incompetent,

but she doesn't have to competence. 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 as well as in monkey ok. 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're going to go up 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 our t brother bad because what we end up having is one candidate of the great and the good who is immigrant for i'm to essentially bogey men or women 30 purses and that's not good for democracy. are you, you know, they're having a position do who you disagree with, but uh, they are honorable people. and that's a real problem. and that isn't tidy the doing of the manual, michael,

he came 5 years ago, seemingly out of nowhere. he been in the cabinet for 18 months or were 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 and 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 his nature is that he's a source of it. he's a top mandarin. he was at the minister finance. he graduated top of his class almost 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 hazard, which i think is really room for democracy and his jacket. do you think, in a sense, a macro, your, by emasculating, the traditional parties is actually empowered his own opposition? what is very interesting is yes. mccaul destroyed the socialist party into melbourne. 17. and now he has destroyed the derived directory. couldn't talk to the 2 bodies. we shall do me a 100 friends, critical life for the last few years in tatters. so was going to happen after my call as a catch. you're gone already to be door and what you're going to see on the right is a red composition. i don't right loop and the important information party will back to shoot the right wing to become

a split decision is, was spent in 2017 between governance and and more radical press does a more voters, all of that would add up to very all right on the right, which could gather about 3025 percent of the of the voters as of but he sees have been similar to the british story biology. very russia that he's a very protection is and i just same died a very a style to foreigners. so that's, that's likely it will be likely to help and who received your power, monterey addiction. ok, i would shake 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 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,

the majority in parliament, jake is going to be different ballgame this time around. yes, certainly it's melinda and ways. we know ever since they've changed the timing of the parliamentary election and put them after residential election, there's a momentum going in. however, i don't see marino been winning an absolute majority just on the road. we also know how i trot, 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 and it. so her honest, sorry, less but it is going to be difficult to get a majority. and obviously, depending on maturity she would 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're right to the point inside the parliament, your election is the key election because a majority print is you know, half power when i think it's more likely for him to have a maturity, maybe not, i'm not sure it's 8, but no crate, you know it kind of coalition of the willing so to speak. ok, i will constantly thought of as it goes here on out there over the next 2 weeks. very close to the data. so we got time for jacqueline, a lot of younger game and is, but we say 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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