bloomberg's paris chief alan katz is with us now. heard marine le pen say she would work with a manual micron. should she provide -- prevail, markets seem to be taking her at her word? alan: well, they certainly do for the moment. as you say, markets calmed down a lot today compared to last weekend i think people are taking a bit of a breath to sort of say to themselves -- wait a minute, who is really going to take control? france is a really complicated two-step system, it's still hard to tell who is going to end up assuming control of the legislative body when this is all said and done. katie: what is the path forward for emmanuel macron? how does he forge ahead from here? alan: well, it's difficult , no question about it. it is why a lot of people, including other heads of state and the g7 over the weekend have asked why on earth he dissolved parliament. the path forward is that he has to try to forge a sort of centrist group with using usual year of the far right that has worked in france as a bulwark against that for decades. wh