two rounds of primary for both the social iist jean-luc melenchon. and then we're having the parliamentary election, so, we are having a new battle. yesterday, as we said, we have have strong images, a battle of communication which has been won by eman u wmanuel macron yester. he tried to reinvent a specific manner of doing politics. we all say doing politics in a different manner is something good, but this time, he managed to do it. and this is what we didn't manage do do as republicans. >> you talk about the ideas, but some of the ideas are the same. you talk about the right policy from the republican side. there is similarity on it, the cut in corporation tax. also reduction in terms of the public sector, not as much as he was talking about, i think he was talking about 100,000 jobs out of public service to 120 to macron. there will be support for some of the macron campaign pledges from republicans, as you see it? >> well, you know, we are part of the history. my political party comes from religion. and there is a tradition. and we will fight fo

i know people who voted for melenchon who will be out on the streets.e voted front national, mainly because they're tough on crime and drugs, but also on economic grounds. do you think macron can deliver change? no, he can't do anything. to change the situation, he needs 20 or 30 years. 20 or 30 years? 20 or 30 years. today, macron met francois hollande at ve day commemorations. hollande was one who tried to change the country, but stalled in the face of the famous french resistance. will the same happen now? the guy is so determined, and our institutions give him the opportunity to implement his agenda whatever it takes, but it means we have a really high risk of political turmoil during these five years. you can't overestimate how important this is for the future of the eu and the liberal establishment. it's the last bullet of the pro—globalisation forces. if it succeeds, both anti—system votes will decrease, the xenophobic one, marine le pen, and the alter—globalisation one, melenchon. but if it doesn't succeed, then the question will only be which a

supporters in melenchon's party will have to go to macron.hat is fascinating to see how many of his voters vote in abstention for macron or le pen. >> are you shocked? >>-- >> some people on the left were. >> what could he do? he had 70 weeks and months fighting macron, and then he will say no? >> years fighting le pen. the far left fights the far right. >> one thing that was interesting for me was talking with people, with voters. a lot of people were having like a consumer's approach of these elections. people tell me i usually vote le pen, for this and i will vote for melenchon because he says things and pinpointed things that marine le pen did not. maybe then i will go back to her she makes it to the second round. approachinghaving like a consumer and a sense, but they were out of the system and the program of the main parties and the main representatives in france. >> this very bizarre situation now in france. in the old days before the national front crew in power everybody in the working classes or industry and factories would've voted

he said that she isa jean—luc melenchon.ill come to her who are sceptical about globalisation capitalism and the eu 01’ globalisation capitalism and the eu or at worst that they will stay at home. at the same time, she has also tried to appeal to supporters of the right wing, of fillon he was knocked out in the first round. those social conservatives, not people who are anti—iu. she faces a difficult task in 20 motivates people from all areas of french politics. i asked her about this on saturday and she said she would appeal to the supporters of fillon and jean—luc melenchon. i think that is what worries emmanuel macron supporters. they are worried that people might read for how will stay at home and the race might narrow rather than the race might narrow rather than the polls suggest. they have both been talking about the future of the eu and raising the prospect of france, potentially, exiting the eu. what is the view of each of them on that? marine le pen has campaigned for yea rs that? marine le pen has campaigned for y

melenchon voters are now waiting for the runoff.ds of his in the first round could either vote for needank of the candidates in the runoff. -- neither of the candidates in the runoff. marine le pen joined forces with another patriot or nationalist as she calls him. she does not plan to leave the euro. that is the strategy of marine le pen at the moment to try to forget about her plan to leave the euro because she is well aware this is a way to extend her base. mark: thank you. we will see you soon. let's get to brexit. of -- accusing britain may recognizing that brexit will not be easy. junckerer between mr. and theresa may last may. disastrous as this were not? >> i don't know. one of the things that tickled me was the british government's response, which is this is an account we don't recognize. that is a response that we get when we publish something that cannot be denied, but the officials are trying to stiff arm it a little bit. as soon as i heard that reaction, i thought, well, it could be true. mark: theresa may is trying to

melenchon was. le pen was. and that's one of the reasons that melenchon and le pen thought they'd had similar voters. that le pen could attract those voters. you know, the far left and the far right it's confusing here. marine le pen if you want to understand le pen, you should think of her as a national socialist. we don't say that because of the unfortunate german contraction of national socialist. but in fact, that's what she is. her economic policies, her anti-business, very socialistic, combined with xenophobic, nationalistic, anti-immigrant often thinly veiled racist and sometimes thinly veiled anti-semitic policies. none of that part of her attracted young people, but the socialistic part did. the guarantees that she promised them, those appealed to young people and that's why she thought she could get melenchon's voters ares but ultimately i think they could not stomach the racist aspects of her party. >> that did not happen. melenchon being the most popular three out of ten at least in the insis poll f

jean-luc melenchon is the most popular candidate here, and his voters don't want a man from big financeither. reporter: laurence david-moalic dismisses such arguments as pure propaganda. she will be running for office herself as an "en marche" candidate in the parliamentary elections in june. ms. david-moalic: i want to keep on working for macron's movement, because his policies make sense, they are pragmatic and coherent. but we have a mountain to climb, and perhaps you need a touch of madness to make it. reporter: she sees france at a crossroads, and her priority is for the country to stay on its cosmopolitan and pro-eu course. elizabeth: fatima is one of many mothers who have lost their sons in the conflict in ukraine. three years ago, her teenage son vadim was killed in one of the deadliest episodes, when dozens of people died in rioting and a fire in the ukrainian port city of odessa. it was the result of violent clashes between pro-russian activists and ukrainian nationalists. fatima knows that nothing can bring her son back, but not knowing what exactly happened makes her loss ev

re round forjean—luc melenchon, they were populist as well.die die with many policies that emmanuel macron has been speaking about. if he wants to get policies through, he needs a majority in parliament. at the moment, he only had a movement, it is an idea. when they go to the elections injune, he has two hope he can get over 200 deputies in the national assembly. if he can't, he has to have a coalition of the willing, bringing politicians from right and left. as you mentioned it, let's bring up the latest poll on the parliamentary elections. temp christian, it might be a good time for you to give us a lesson in how the french system of government works, how much power does the president have? how much power does parliament have? power is split between the two. a bit like the american system, you can have a majority of 299, a simple majority out of 577 deputies. it is a two round election, much like the presidential election in june. it round election, much like the presidential election injune. it is spread over a week, but the thing is, it i

the same could be true ofjean—luc melenchon, maybe this is the high point for him?n votes, but what happens to the movement over the next five yea rs ? the movement over the next five years? there is a big difference also with marine le pen. we will enter the national assembly for the first time in reality, so we will be for the first time, in a position to d raft new laws for the first time, in a position to draft new laws and so on. of course, jean—luc melenchon is not an eternal man, his time will come, but we have the new generation ready as you might have seen in the figures. we are the third political party in terms of use and support. the new generation is there and the future stands with us. it is a factual stance. and what he was saying, for the front nationale, it is in their dna to be fascist. you have someone like the general secretary who said the gas chamber was like some kind of detail in history, not really sure it existed or something like that. it is proof that behind there, it exists. now all the eternal divisions that marine le pen was able to fe

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in the first round, john luke melenchon was in the far left and did a —— round, john luke melenchon was reform, the liberal law reform. this far left movement really gathered momentum for the first round. so he has a very divided country indeed, to take care. it is not just the far right but also far left who have waken up for this election. as the press said just after the first round, there is a difference that is doing well, voting for emmanuel macron, and the france that is doing badly, that's the france that voted for marine le pen. it's a bit more complicated than that. it is notjust that people want a nationalistic approach of the country's problem and want to vote for the far right, that would be easy enough to understand, but it is much more fragmented. it will be quite complicated, because emmanuel macron doesn't want to be francois hollande number two. he doesn't want to realise that he doesn't —— he doesn't want the presidency to pass by and realised he didn't do anything. he is already displeasing anything. he is already displeasing a lot of people, so it is going to be har

anti—system voting will decrease, the xenophobic one, marine le pen, and the alter—globalisation one, mr melenchonm voting will overthrow the system. and i hearfrom this former socialist candidate for president where this leaves the left.

he said that she isa jean—luc melenchon. supporters will come to her, sceptical about globalisation and the eu, or at worst that they will stay at home. at the same time, she has also tried to appeal to supporters of the right—wing, as the candidate fillon who was knocked out in the first round. she faces a difficult task in time to motivate people from all areas of french politics. i asked her about this on saturday at a news, but as you said she would appeal to the supporters of fillon and jean—luc melenchon. i think it what's worried emmanuel macron supporters. they worried that people will like her or stay at home. it may be narrower than the poll suggests. they have both been talking about the future of the eu and raising the prospect of france potentially exiting the eu. what is the view of each of them on that? marine le pen has campaigned for yea rs marine le pen has campaigned for years as marine le pen has campaigned for yea rs as a marine le pen has campaigned for years as a prominent anti—eu figure, suggesting th

president from one political current and a parliamentary majority from .approach -- another jean-luc melenchon is not making alliances -- could that rebalance things overall with macron's movement? hard to predict how this will play out in june. >> thank you very much. image and migrant camp has been evacuated in northern paris -- a makeshift migrant camp. they were living in squalid conditions. at dawn, hundreds of police moved in to clear the settlement located in the area near paris. limited. been pulsekoreans had for the this elect a new leader tuesday. they are hoping to turn the page after the former president was impeached. the liberal candidate is expected to be elected. he will be sworn in tomorrow. we will speak to a correspondent -- andrew, talk us through the issues that face south korea's next leader on the domestic front. >> all democratic elections, this election is being sold on a domestic level with foreign-policy matters -- here, there are two significant issues. one, the issue of collusion and cronyism between politics and business. the major conglomerates committees family-

indeed reflected the divisions accurately within france, there's no reason to presume that jean—luc melenchon'se want to do well or force were ffion's people, or indeed the front national. so he may end up the parliament that is quite difficult deal with. that's it the papers of the moment, i'll be back with tim and benedicte at 11:30pm for another look at the front pages. coming up next, meet author. the thriller writer david baldacci has enjoyed the kind of success most authors can only dream about. his first book, absolute power, became a bestseller and it was turned into a film, starring and directed by clint eastwood. david baldacci has gone on to write 30 novels, which have sold more than 100 million copies around the world. his latest is called the fix and it's his third book about the detective amos decker, who witnesses a seemingly senseless and random murder outside the headquarters of the fbi, in washington, dc. david baldacci, i'd like to start, if i may, by rewinding the clock back to your childhood, when your mother gave you a notebook in which to write stories. had you always wan

that the largest group, some 30% of the people who identify themselves as muslim voted for jean-luc melenchonandidate. we don't know what the exact breakdown is now. but it's a good guess that virtually all the people of muslim backgrounds in the second round voted for emmanuel macron. so the question is can he deliver for them? it's not a question of let's saying let's not be afraid of immigrants or the people those background, but can we get them out of the housing projects on the far outskirts of the cities of france, can we give them a future? matt's right. yeah, the unemployment rate is at 25%, but among those young people, the unemployment rate is 40%. they have to be brought in to the system. whether macron can do it, i don't know. but it was clear that le pen was going to try to exclude them completely. >> yeah. those areas that are not too far necessarily, 30 to 40 minutes from where you're standing there like during the bataclan catastrophe, the places which were called, right, defined as no go zones and how will they get help under this new presidency. this is also the hour here at

with marine le pen closing in on macron in the polls, melenchon has been criticized for not doing morestop the national fronts rise. host: that was emerald maxwell reporting. brushing off negotiations that marine le pen plagiarized her speech from her conservative rival, tell us more. guest: a video surfaced that shows lots of similarities between a speech that marine le pen made on monday and fillon made in april. it seems like they are saying the exact same things. anmight seem like embarrassing situation for marine le pen, but she has brushed the whole thing off. she says she was perfectly aware of the whole thing and maintains that this was a deliberate point and nudge -- wink and nudge to fillon's voters. >> i completely stand behind that wink and the media buzz it created. after all, that's the only thing that gets you going. in the end, it's good. it means the speech has been heard hundreds of times since yesterday. that probably would've been missed. it's true that we share with fillon voters a certain vision of the greatness of france. guest: you can see marine le pen winking

this was happening in the part of paris that was very melenchon, lots of melenchon supporters.pitalist, anti—fascist is, who started this protest and this march and then they were literally locked down by the police who were really heavily present. it was incredible the amount of police that was around and straightaway they started spraying pepper straight and gas. they were really trying to contain this protest. but today they are showing they are there and it is more organised. but does all of this hint at some of the difficulties for mr macron to come? we saw him at the arc de triomphe today side—by—side with the outgoing president. many will view him as he was painted in the campaign as continuity, more of the campaign as continuity, more of the same. yes and it was very interesting to see him today meeting francois hollande because apparently they didn't really speak until yesterday on the phone for the last six months or year. he betrayed francois hollande really so he had this strange relationship today when they met and francois hollande was a bit like a father saying,

a majority were anti-establishment, supporting either le pen or the left-wing populist, jean-luc melenchon. centrist emmanuel macron, le pen's opponent in the runoff, was third choice despite being the only candidate under 40. but not long ago, le pen was considered so controversial, few would admit to supporting her. >> why when you are french, why when you are 20, you want to go to the front national? why? >> reporter: journalist charlotte rotman spent 18 months traveling the country and getting to know young le pen activists for her book "20 years old and at the front." >> she knows how to welcome them, the young people. also, when you are 20 and when somebody trusts you, i don't know in the united states, but in france, it's very rare. and when the front national says, "okay, you are 22, but you are going to be the head of this list for this next election," they feel really like... >> reporter: like they are appreciated. >> yes. really. >> reporter: in fact, the party has asked bouquin, who is just 24, to run for a paris seat in parliament next month. >> ( translated ): i was given new

were widespread over the voters coming from the conservative right and also the voters forjean—luc melenchonpen but maybe it is not totally clear, but maybe it is not totally clear, but maybe it will give a candidates an advantage, one of the other. will those abstentions cause the macron tea m those abstentions cause the macron team a lot of concern or will they have already factored it in?” team a lot of concern or will they have already factored it in? i think it was expected, so i think once again we will see, but of course during this campaign between the two rounds, what was really hard, really tough, and it was clear that many people were not deciding to go and to choose between the two candidates, which is once again unusual because when you see, for example in 2000 two, john marine le pen at the second round, the turnout was eight points higher at the second round. this is a little different. i mentioned a televised debate already. it was such an angry affair in many ways. you had two very distinct and radically different visions of what france can be in the future. what is your res

the hard life, jean—luc melenchon, the official candidate for the socialist was another, the social democratel macron who woi'i social democrat, emmanuel macron who won the race in the end. we are just waiting. as many of the people in the elysee palace are for former, waiting. as many of the people in the elysee palace are forformer, or the elysee palace are forformer, or the outgoing president francois hollande to emerge. from that meeting with emmanuel macron, the incoming president, the handover of power, the conversation between the two men. they know each other so well. handing over the nuclear codes as well. this very private meeting is critical. it is absolutely crucial to this whole process, isn't it? absolutely. it is the effective handover of power that is happening at the moment. in a short period of time, we will see president hollande out of the elysee palace, honoured by the republican guard salute, of course he will be welcomed at any time by the macrons in the elysee palace as well and will follow the actual inauguration ceremony which is very solemn and will happen in the b

the people that voted forjean—luc melenchon think there's lead when voting for a man who used to be apport. we were just seeing pictures of emmanuel macron, going to be paying tribute today to a moroccan father of two who drowned after being pushed into the river seine in paris by right wing skinheads on the 1st of may 1995, on the sidelines of a front national demonstration. he's talking to the media. why is that particularly significant, james? i think it is significant, james? i think it is significant for him and those who support him because it shows from his point of view and their point of view the clear difference between him asa view the clear difference between him as a candidate and the front national as a party, as a movement. a manual mac run has said marine le pen inherits her views from the man who is about to speak here, jean—marie le pen, who spoke in the past dismissing the holocaust and so on. emmanuel macron feels there is a very clear dividing line between him and the front national, led by marine le pen. he wants to make sure french people understand that. thank

ending double play by belt giants win two in the ninth to win 6-5 and save number five for jean-luc melenchoninth, against the a's, a's would tie it up. chris davis allet does is hit bombs. would tie it at two. stephen vogt is pleased. we go the to tenth. good night. game over. the the fourth walk off hit for the a's this season. an it's high timep and fireworks time. 3- 2, a's win it in ten. >>> sad news to report long time sport caster wayne walker passed away today. he played 15 years for the nfl's detroit lions and transitioned to sports casting from 1974 to 94 and dayed at age 80 from p k parkisson's disease. >>> draymond green who of the three finalists. will lend play tomorrow night out with a bad anchle afrpgle said ankle said he if he feels good he is going to 34r5i. play. kevin says no way he's going to sit. >> yeah he's had few days to rest i know 100% sure he's going to play that's just my gut. so they're a way better team obviously with him on the court. >> i mean, thes frustrating. you work all year to get to this point and being able to not help the team to win a game or just b

don't forget jean—luc melenchon, who did well in the first round boat.st round boat. nearly 50% of the french people voted for a eurosceptic candidates. yes, absolutely, if he doesn't do the business over the next five years people will look at those figures and say he didn't really have the mandate and there is a risk that one of those two leaders will come back and may well hunt mr macron. the reaction here in america this has been bubbling from with joy from democrats. i keep reminding people here that she did get one third of the boat, marine le pen. —— vote. —— vote. so who is the man who will become the next president of france? at 39 years of age, he has limited political experience. he spentjust two years as the economy minister in the socialist government of francois hollande. his performances in the tv debates were polished, on the campaign trail he appeared confident and in charge of his brief, but what about the man behind the politician? tonight, the french voters will see a side to emmanuel macron they have never seen before. the french net

you could have heard yesterday the leader of the far left party, melenchon saying we welcome the newpresident. we're going to come with resistance to him. and we have the traditional right wing party with a guy of the generation of macron who is going to lead the wright wing party which has been the big loser of this election. >> what is next for la penn and her party, is he also reinvigorated? >> well, madam le pen got the best score ever. 11 million people voting for her. 3 million the first round. and twice, better, more than what her father did 15 years ago in 2002. versus chirac. but definitely, they have to change the party. and i think that if madam le pen is losing the parliamentary elections, believe me, we can already predict that it will be a big fight inside the party, big reshuffling. and i could already hear the niece of marine le pen, mario mi michelle le pen. >> and we've seen mr. macron received an endorsement from former u.s. president obama. does that mean that his relationship with the u.s. is likely to be strong or strong since obama and president trump were stro

half the voting population choosing extremists, either on the right wing or on the left wing with melenchon. so there is very much a sense of unease in the country. i think the front national has already integrated that macron would probably win on sunday. the polls have been pretty steady in favor. 62% to 40%. now they're looking at round three of the elections, which take place in june. they want to be the leader of the opposition, if macron is elected. they also want to increase a great deal their position in the parliament. for now they only have two mps, they want to increase that to 100 mps, which seems a bit farfetched when you look at the projections. that's now the goal for the front national. >> claire, thank you very much for that. let's talk to nancy about what the macron camp calls the dissemination of fake news. there is alleged involvement of russian hackers, potentially. do you feel that mac cron voter will look through these allegations of tax or bank accounts and tax havens? >> well, we know emanuel macron is not taking any chances. that's for sure, taking legal action on

at the same time she has to win over the hard left melenchon supporters who backed him.nt anti-eu. she had been struggling to win over conservative central france and hard front urban left. 40% of the vote, for a major presidential candidate coming from the front national, that's a significant victory for her. >> how important is this french tv debate for le pen? is this her last chance to catapult her base? >> i think it's more important for macron. macron's support is wide but thin. if he faulters here at all, which we saw in the first few days of his second round campaigning, it is his to lose right now. he has to turn out his base. i don't think we'll see le pen win much more votes than she has, but macron can lose his base. much more at stake tonight for macron than le pen. >> quick question on italy. the euro has rallied off the back of this result. are people too quick to extrapolate that this means the eurozone's problems are over and an election to come in the next 12 months in italy as well. >> election to come. we've seen the populist party there, the five sta

the first one to break the rule was jean-luc melenchon, leader of the far left who did not endorse emanuel macron. you can see the same thing also with the trade unions which marched yesterday. the third trade union in france, and first among the public offices in france, and we have the marjorie with us this morning. the unions did not march altogether like they did in 2002 yesterday. has the context changed. >> good morning. the context has changed, of course, since 2002. i would like to recall that in 2002 all the unions did not march altogether. may 1 st they're used to marching, so we are deeply attached to our independence. and as usual, we don't call for anything in -- we don't give any voting recommendation. >> but the unions in france represent 11% of workers and employees. don't you have a responsibility to avoid among everything abstention, which is probably going to be very high in the second round? >> we think that we -- we are -- sorry. we don't -- at first of the year, what we think is that we are here to defend the workers particular rights. we are not here to defend the ri

nearly 2/3 of the electorate of melenchon would abstain. of course, if the tension is higher, -- abstention is higher, this could benefit marine le pen . francine: thank you. so much joining us with live coverage from the french presidential election. we will have live coverage through to sunday. we have a special show for you when the polls, the exit pulse start coming in. -- polls start coming in. when you look at the french elections, are we over the risk breakup or is there a danger that two days before, tomorrow actually, markets wake up and say, let me price in the 30% chance that len pens? jeremy: markets are certain much more relaxed. that is where there was really excitement in the first round. on that sunday night, lots of people were here in london looking and identify and trying to understand the ramifications of what could've happened. so, now looking at the way the opinion polls are formulated, it seems relatively low probability that le pen can win. of course, there is still the risk of a last-minute interjection or some of b

my take on this is for the far left melenchon voters, who are also pretty anti-establishment, this makeshem less likely to vote for macron. it doesn't make anyone more likely to vote for le pen, but it's another sign of the global elite being -- global political elite being asleep at the wheel. this whole election has been anti-establishment. macron is not one of the two main parties, le pen isn't either. i was surprised that came out yesterday. >> campaigned against brexit, campaigned against donald trump, two down. >> just to round things off in terms of whether we could get a surprise or not, it's similar to brexit in this sense, turnout could be a massive swing factor. just a little knnuance factor, is a long holiday weekend in france. it's a day off on monday. in order to vote at france, you have to vote at your local constituency. if people are traveling for the weekend, if rich parisians are away and traveling who would normally vote for macron, it's hard for them to vote. there are little factors that show -- >> isn't there too much at stake for them? >> i don't know. his support

you're not going to see le pen or melenchon, the far left candidate.ou do actually have good macro economic news. suddenly the you're rov zoeuroz grow again. you do have some geopolitical speed bumps. you have the french legislative elections. that comes next month. it's unclear whether macron can get his new party enough seats in the new national assembly to push through his reform agenda. you head to a state in france where you will get the legislation not through the national assembly. that could be a problem for french growth. the other thing hanging over everyone's heads are italy. elections probably next year. but their populist party, the five star movement, they could win there. they are similar to a lot of populist movements in europe. calling for referendum on euro membership, potentially leaving the eu. again, sort of the third largest economy in the eurozone. so i think the markets are trying to absorb these things. everyone was making sure le pen didn't win. now that we are assured of a macron victory, it goes back to are we now safe? or d

>> no, that was the far-left melenchon. >> i thought they both did. >> the big reason why the banks moven the back of le pen, there's a fear that there would be a run on french banks if she wants to take them out of that. people would run and pull their savings out. it has been in the last month 17% lower than where it is sewed. if you did get the upset outright, would expect the move to be at least that much, if that happened. >> let's get to the top story. facebook earnings, the company saw revenues surge in the latest quarter despite concerns that violent and graphic content might spark an exodus of advertis advertisers. >> we are in constant conversation with advertisers, but we have not seen a revenue impact from this yet. that's not why we did this. we did this because as mark said in his post, there's no place for this content on facebook. we are going to take every step we can and that includes hiring more people in big numbers as you saw, but also building better tools to keep the community safe. >> they did announce they were hiring a few,000 people to de, 0 thousand people to

restaurant worker joanna thurloy voted for left winger jean luc melenchon in the first round and nowes a major dilemma. >> ( translated ): i don't feel understood by either side. because with emmanuel macron, it's all about capitalism, and speculation. and marine le pen, it's her family history of being on the extreme right. we've already been through this. >> reporter: there's an undertone of defiance and maybe even desperation amongst the front supporters as they chant "we will win." in order for le pen to enter the presidential palace, there will have to be a political surprise of brexit or donald trump proportions. and that's the mantra to which parliamentary candidate julien odoul is clinging. >> ( translated ): because she's the only one who speaks to the french, the only one who speaks to the forgotten ones, all those french who've been abandoned for decades. >> reporter: france's national anthem, written in the 18th century is all about conflict if marine le pen upsets the odds and wins on sunday, france and the european union will face a major upheaval. but the pollsters bel

melenchon who had done surprisingly well in the first round, he never told his people to vote for macron. he told them don't vote for le pen, but he left open, wide open the possibility they should abstain completely. i think there was a lot of reason to think that the turnout would be much lower than in fact it was. i think felipe who was on earlier was saying the abstention was very high. i'm not sure that the numbers actually bear that out. i think it's very surprising given the kind of discontent about this vote that existed among a lot of people that they really did go out and vote in the end. >> and matt, do we know when we'll have a better sense of that number, those who abstained but still did go to the polls? we have 70, 78% of those who did participate, but we didn't have the abstention numbers at that moment. >> no. we also don't have the blank ballot numbers as far as i know. a lot of people were planning to put blank pieces of paper in the urns in the ballot boxes or empty envelopes. i'm sure we'll have numbers for those pretty shortly if they don't already exist some place.

melenchon did well in the first round of the vote, where did his voters go in the second round?ron say, if you vote for me, it is because you agree to me. we say, no, no way. we wanted anyone not to be humiliated by their choices. we are pleased we organise that, because macron windbag. i voted for macron. have you known an election like this where you could not vote for either candidate? the choice between marine le pen and emmanuel macron was especially hard. for catholics, for example, le pen is against immigrants. she wants to stop immigration. it is the contrary of the catholic values. 0n the other side, for family, macron the catholic values. 0n the other side, forfamily, macron is the catholic values. 0n the other side, for family, macron is against out side, for family, macron is against our values. that is why it was so ha rd our values. that is why it was so hard to choose. and on the left? for me, actually, in my head, there was someone me, actually, in my head, there was someone putting a gun on my head, marine le pen, and someone poisoning me slowly. do you see exci

ofple shifts away from sort the more radical views of the left and right we saw a melenchon and le pennd go towards a centrist normal policy. pretty much what we expected. obviously the risk is extremely scary for the markets. i think everything we are seeing right now, micron is going to win heavily in the markets on monday morning. we will make up any market friendly type of the of. in the first round there was no hidden or shut about that came out of nowhere that surprised us. the numbers were really much in line. higher thanked out expected. it was in his favor more than anything else. it is will have a difficult time justifying a le pen win. anna: i invited of the french at it which i won't read in france. it involves their skins. it roughly translates to don't count your chickens before they had. this chart says you are in good company. this is about allocating to french stocks. seeing brisk inflows last week and this is only after round one. >> the recent history is littered with unexpected results , be italian referendum, brexit, trump, clearly the conspiracists are coming out

it is more to get people who voted for fillon and melenchon to stay away.e can make macron seem such an unappetizing choice for them that they do not vote for him. isron on the other hand, he going to hammer away more on the specifics. euroas waffled about the and that is a big issue for french people. the french do not want to leave the euro. she has waffled about this. is impossible to understand what she wants to do about the euro right now. really hit hero on the specifics of the euro. expect her to try to go above specifics and talk about emotions, defending france, how about to the people, that's what of stuff. guy: as ever, thank you very much indeed. the rest of the paris team providing a fantastic coverage in advance of the second round. this is the one week risk reversals on euro-dollar. the markets have been swirling around. if this was the move coming into the french election. first round, and then we get the bounce coming out of it. from a market point of view, it of theing back in some risk. let us get the view now with derek halpenny, head of

interesting an number from the melenchon voters, 2/3 of his actually felt that macron was the most convincingwell. jonathan: from a beautiful looking paris, caroline connan, thank you for a much. michele, j.p.bob morgan asset management head of global fixed-income. you sit down to a beautiful dinner and just assume that this is going to be smooth sailing -- forual maccallum emmanuel macron? bob: no, was bloomberg tv -- david: good answer. bob: the markets of always filtered of it toward a macron victory. jonathan: a question whether redenomination risk was a permanent feature, and my colleague asked a question this morning as to how fun it is to just accept, it just won't materialize the approach in the european market. yesterday it did, but it is very unlike to materialize. bob: i think there is some degree of truth in that. i do not know how far this is going to go, but i would go along with mark on this one. alix: the story before the first run as you will get a pop in the euro, a pop in markets, and boom , you will have a selloff. is that the story this coming monday, or has that story ch

if you take the big cities, they gave a majority to melenchon in the first round.f geographies. ,t is true that this election it showed major divisions inside the country. saw five ornsion we 10 days ago. guy: that exists at the moment. it will be interesting to see how this interacts with unions and the governments and employers. victory may have been the easy part for emmanuel macron. governing is going to turn out to be quite a challenge. we will return shortly. we're going to carry on this fantastic conversation. coming up in the next hour, we will speak to an advisor with macron. that conversation is coming up later. this is bloomberg. ♪ guy: guy johnson, tom keene, we are in paris. this is the night after the election of the manual macron for the presidency. outcome of the french presidential election having no immediate effect on the rating of france. let's switch gears and talk about what is happening elsewhere. saudi arabia and russia signaling they could extend production cuts into 2018, doubling down on an effort to eliminate a supply surplus that has ex

interesting,is this resurgence of the far left part of this discussion, you've had melenchon come outbviously he didn't win, but he came out of nowhere. i couldn't see your chart, but is it suggesting that corbyn is pulling much better? mark: exactly. basically the majority the conservatives might win, this chart tells us, is going to be a lot smaller than people were assuming a month ago. as we know, sterling last week had its worst week since november. investors are maybe beginning to price in that we've got a race on here. even as you look forwards in the u.s. to our midterms in 2020, i don't know that the markets are necessarily considering the risk that you could have a bernie sanders type candidate ultimately being president in the next election. that is going to be one of these discussions you are going to see more and more. populism came out of dissatisfaction by a lot of voters, and you are starting to see real wages continue to weaken in the u.k., that is a recipe for all sorts of election surprises. i think we have to not just it,ider populism as we know the trump, brexit s