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Speaker 1: I told you the EU was going to be worth watching.

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Speaker 1: And so we've got the exit polls for France and

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Speaker 1: Marine la Penne has come in allegedly with thirty percent,

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Speaker 1: Macron's Renaissance Party fifteen, the Socialists fourteen, the Greens barely

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Speaker 1: scrape into the parliament at five point two percent, and

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Speaker 1: as a result of that, Macron has gone and called

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Speaker 1: a snap pole Catherine Field as well, it's Catherine, very

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Speaker 1: good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning mate.

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Speaker 1: Has this come completely out of left field?

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Speaker 2: Completely completely? Emmanuel Macron just announcing fifteen twenty minutes ago

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Speaker 2: that he's taken note, as he said, of what the

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Speaker 2: voters said by turning out over the weekend to vote

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Speaker 2: so decisively for the policies of the far right Marine

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Speaker 2: la Penn's party, and therefore he says he's going to

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Speaker 2: go back to the people, that people will now have

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Speaker 2: their chance to vote for the National Assembly. The reason

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Speaker 2: this came so out of nowhere, a Mike, is because

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Speaker 2: when you vote for the European Parliament, that's really for

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Speaker 2: voting on a European level. It's everything to do with

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Speaker 2: Europe as a whole, your twenty eight nations. It's not

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Speaker 2: meant to be about local politics, but clearly the success

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Speaker 2: of Marine le Pen's party, her candidate Jordan Badella, has

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Speaker 2: really rocked him and he's felt that even though he's popular,

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Speaker 2: he's had a good last couple of days with the

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Speaker 2: D Day celebrations, he felt he had no option but

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Speaker 2: to call these elections.

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Speaker 1: Wow, he already runs a minority government. I mean, could

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Speaker 1: this blow up in his face.

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Speaker 2: Very easily, very easily. I was just listening to instant reaction.

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Speaker 2: I suppose you could call it on television. The French

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Speaker 2: Interior minister called it a courageous decision, so we all

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Speaker 2: know what that means when someone says that in politics

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Speaker 2: it could well. Now is machine Lea Penn's chance to

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Speaker 2: get out there?

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Speaker 1: Have this momentum going.

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Speaker 2: I mean everyone's saying, look, we don't need elections. They're

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Speaker 2: not scheduled for another three years. They've all got time

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Speaker 2: to calm down, get over this so called move to

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Speaker 2: the far right within the country. So she is really

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Speaker 2: on and up now. And I think the other thing, Mike,

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Speaker 2: is what I've been hearing this last sort of I

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Speaker 2: don't know eight nine months, you've been hearing more about

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Speaker 2: Marhine Le Penn. Well maybe she won't be so bad.

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Speaker 2: There's almost as though the electorate have almost taught themselves

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Speaker 2: into believing that maybe her and her followers won't be

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Speaker 2: so bad when it comes to governing.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Catherine, appreciate the update just developing this morning.

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Speaker 1: Casperan Field out of France for this morning, I put

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Speaker 1: that down to Georgia Maloney. Maloney was allegedly the far right.

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Speaker 1: Allegedly she was a radical, crazy woman who was going

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Speaker 1: to do god knows what in Italy and she's turned

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Speaker 1: out to be a relatively moderate and successful politician. If

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Speaker 1: you're standing in France, sitting in France having a look

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Speaker 1: at that and think, well, maybe Marine Lapin's just another

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Speaker 1: version of Maloney. So there we go. Out of the

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Speaker 1: EU vote, comes the first snow That collection.

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