challenger, let's go right to barbara angel who was in the room just now listening to a manual non con, very sweeping address just then almost like a victory speech before the actual victory. what do you make of it? he is a great speaker, i mean his rhetoric is really carrying people away. at least he managed to do that in his hall, this hall with his supporters who are so overjoyed that he has made it again to had come out of this. first round of the election was a credible 5 point advantage. he was addressing really the voters who hadn't voted for him to vote is who given their vote to the extremes on the left, on the right. and he said, i understand you. so he's really trying to get to these people. i understand your problems are not earning enough money, being afraid of rising prices, being afraid of losing buying power and your life getting worse. and so he was

really addressing those people directly, but he was also denouncing many things that we have heard through the last month or 2 from the right thing, populace. and from the re extreme, right, kind of did erickson more, for instance, this ramp and anti islam rhetoric. and this is sort of, he said france is not like that. we are with muslims and we are with jews. they are part of our society. and we want to keep it that way. so he was really denouncing the other side and their ideals. and he came out very strongly of course, on the side of europe and said, we need to stay together in the united europe. and we need to play our role there. we can sort of drop off off the side and sort of leave europe and be alone then in the world and lose our allies and leave our allies. so it was

a very strong and very determined speech. he knows that he has to come out fighting and we've seen sort of the 1st half hour of that. yeah, we're looking at live pictures here, face bumps and handshakes between a man or mac on and his supporters, obviously a great reception for him there. he has 2 weeks now to convince much of the rest of the electorate of his platform. what challenges does he face? the challenge is our manifold. of course, i mean there is this problem was rising energy prices. they have lowered in france . so for the 1st of april, they have lower the text part of energy prices. so french, people buy and they fill up their cars. they are now again paying a bit less than, for instance, people in germany. he needs to sort of keep out that he really needs to figure out how to deal with the whole energy crisis francis still very strong and nuclear

power. but that is not all even france has to import oil and france has a certain amount of gas. so they have to really come out much stronger for ecological solutions. that is something where they have been dragging their feet throughout the last years and years. some really bad things in front of him like the pension reform. he has promised that that was very honest. he has promised that he's going to pick it back up. he said, frederick, people to like other people in europe will have to work longer. they absolutely hate the idea here and frogs, they think 60 is enough. but as we know, german for instance, have to work till 67, so he wants to raise pension age. he is going to have another bethel on his hands there. and so it is a long as sort of a list of very difficult decisions that he has to take. and he really, it will have to drag and push french people to sort of go along with him and at

least carry some of his reforms because he went when he came into power 5 years ago . he said, i want to modernize france, he has done a few 1st steps, but there's a long way still to go. and let's stay on that now because he does now have a track record, unlike in 2017, where he was new and fresh and could promise lots of things. is he able to use his 1st term to launch himself into a 2nd term, or does she have to find compromises or find ways to walk away from some of the things that that happened during his 1st term? you will have to walk away from some things that are too difficult, but the most difficult thing is going to the pension reform. and he said, i will push this through and he will probably do it and done so he can also, of course, it point to his rather good track record. on the economic side. he has lowered unemployment. something that no french president had been able to do for years and

years. and he has it, for instance, installed a program, offer education for young people, professional education, similar to the one that we know in germany is. so he is taking a lot of young french people off the streets and given them in perspective, that is something that he really said it should point to. i'd work on and tell people i have already done quite a lot of good, but i want to finish and i want to carry this on. it is not easy because the french are a difficult people to govern. they are contrary, and their love to complain. so he really will have to work hard at that house. sounds like you're describing a vibrant democracy there for barbara vessel. we're going to leave it there for now . as we have much more about the selection to talk about, thanks very much. and the far right leah marine le pen will face president manuel mccaul, in the 2nd round of francis presidential elections on the 24th of april. according

to projections from today's 1st vote, she says, if elected, she will unite france republican 1st. additionally, me, the french people gave me the honor of qualifying for the 2nd round against the outgoing president. i wanted to express my most sincere gratitude due to the millions of voters who trusted me, but yourself said touching. now the supplemental, during this 1st round, the french people have clearly wanted to arbitrate a fundamental choice between 2 opposite visions of the future. your either the division doing justice and the disorder imposed by a man you and my call for the benefit of a few or the gathering of the french people around social justice and protection. guaranteed by a fraternal framework around the age old idea of nation and people and listening to that address alive was at lisa lewis, our correspondent who is at marine le pens. headquarters. lisa,

what did you make of the comments from marine, the pen? well marie le pen, obviously she also wants to gather people around her just like a mom mom, cause she says, the she's the only candidate for france. but when you look at it, she appeals to the sense of nation. really. whereas in my mom, a sense of democracy and that's really the main point of difference between the 2 candidates. even though you could be, you know, people come can criticize of the current president in my call. but when you look at marine the pen, she really wants to come back on the very principles of what friends democracy is. she wants to hold a referendum and she got got to pause. she would hold a referendum asking people to take away some of the basic rights from people that have no french nationality. so, but that would actually go against the principle of equality of human rights. human

rights would no longer be valid for everybody that's on the very basis the very idea of human rights. so that's the main difference between the 2 candidates. but obviously both candidates try to get people around them in these coming at 2 weeks . i've been talking to people here to mike. them are exuberant at the results and they were saying, telling me, you know, tomorrow we would gather ours with the members of our team and go all that and campaign and try to find people from other such as an exam or another fall right? candidate that has said that people should vote for her because i know that national, this candidate is also a pen and they was very defensive to try to find also other people have wanted to go talk to vote for her. and the 2nd round of breaking into each time. lisa, what has le pen been able to do to stage the amount of success that she has had

going into this 1st round? well, she's gained so many points in action for several reasons. first of all, she really did the leg work on went to people, to talk to people into towns at market. for months and months. she said that she was the candidate close to the people telling them that she would, for example, love the price of essentially good then few prize because, you know, you know, spending, how is the number one prior people, french vegas in the selection. and she's, at the same time, there was eric zimmer entered the race mentioned earlier. he's a bar right. come today. he's even further to the right then. because he was using all right, written a announcing a crack found on muslim climb and appearing even more fall right. next to me than marina panel, actually that programs are quite similar. another factor was that,

you know, the, the war in ukraine actually that 1st before close a so called a so called a rallying around in my mouth, call the current president because you know, the price is you rally around your lead us for that effect quickly. wind up in my call did not enter the election combined for a long time. and then when he finally did, you know, he, i mean, we can continue to campaign said she climbed up in the polls again and managed to get such a good night. miss lewis, thanks very much for bringing us that from rena pens. headquarters and a few hours away in brussels. we have our own jack, paris standing by you just heard a memo, mccullin's address. europe obviously played a very big role in that address. how did you hear things from where you are? yeah, it's super interesting how micron addresses those audiences. this is for france,

i'm for europe and they can be together. he was saying, it was quite interesting what he had say sort of entered on to that stage with a big smile on his face, who's looking buoyant, looking happy. he will hope that the odds are now in his favor. he's won a bigger margin against marina pan than he did 5 years ago. and i don't think it's, i think perhaps something that will perhaps, always talking about in this election is the absolute shift in french politics. that he managed to overturn all of the traditional parties 5 years ago. he now has 2 weeks to consolidate himself as a pretty one of the most successful french presidents in terms of elections. if he can win this election, he will be a to turn president and he will feel buoyant and successful. and then we'll, as we say, as we've been talking about, will come to brussels and try to push his policies, both those domestic european policies that he wants to. and this idea of close to european integration, especially economically and fiscally. interestingly though, marine append during her speech,

she was talking about the she mentioned the outgoing president that she wanted to fight against. she knows that she's got a bit of an uphill battle. there was a lot of the political opponents. a lot of her political opponents will try and club behind a manual microns so she knows she's going to fight for every vote if she's gonna challenge him in that 2nd round. on april the 24th jack park and brussels. thanks very much. i bring it back home here in the studio with our dw flores' on manuel shes you would listen to the speech as well. here in germany, the german view or how our german here is, how it all off schultz hearing this. well, i'd say here in germany, all the political class save the a t v would be quite relieved to see him enter, and michael, coming up, 1st of the 1st round of the election, the speech you've said it sounded very much like a victory speech already. but also there was a very conciliatory tone from paris from him under my call. he really wants to

rally older voters for the 2nd round human gemini. of course, it's will be watched with a lot of attention because we have the choice between a presidency, which would be euro 5, which would be very much, you know, repeating the french, german and the home of the european union, which we have seen over the past decades around if my band was to become francis president, then we would set on a new do not see the same of can union. she's a us skeptic, she's financed by populist candidates as well. she's, she used to, you know, really be vocal about her friendship is let me put in something obviously, that she kept quite quiet since the russian invasion of ukraine, both of the 2 very different, very antagonistic vision of friends within the european union. and she said it has,

in her speech, she said, france has a choice between 2 different visions for the countries. so gemini is watching very, very closely. and a 2nd aspect, very interesting from here in germany, gemini, didn't have this, you know, a candidate lack macro, which kind of transcends parties the way my mom called it in 2017, and back then he was a phenomenon for germans. and i think there's still very much in all the french president, this young french president who manages to do such speeches, you know, brilliant speeches on the international stage as thanks so much. and we want to bring you what our main news this our was frank, president manuel mark on a merge the winner of the 1st round of the french presidential election. initial projections put back on at 28 percent of the vote is main challenge or the far right marina pedal also go forward. she got 23 percent of the vote. the 2nd round

of elections will be in 2 weeks time. there of course, other candidates who ran, they are now out of the race. and that is all for this special edition of g w. news will have more coming up soon. thanks very much for watching. be up to date, don't miss our highlights. the d w program online d w dot com highlight many pushes of lunch are now in the world right now. climate change very hot story. this is my plan.