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Speaker 1: After France we go. Catherine Field, welcome.

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Speaker 2: Back, Good morning again. Andrew.

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Speaker 1: We were talking yesterday and we were talking about the NFP,

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Speaker 1: which is the party that one of the most votes,

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Speaker 1: and that is the new coalition. And I didn't realize

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Speaker 1: at the time they've only been together for a couple

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Speaker 1: of months. They came together where Macron called the election,

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Speaker 1: but then I found out they had been together before,

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Speaker 1: but they collapsed spectacularly. So should we so tell me

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Speaker 1: about this place? Should we have any confidence in the NFP?

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Speaker 2: Oh, oh, that's mean run to start with, Andrew, I

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Speaker 2: would have very little confidence in them, to be honest, Andrew.

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Speaker 2: First of all, they're from such a wide range of

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Speaker 2: left wing opinions. You've got right on the far left,

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Speaker 2: You've got the Communist Party, which to be true, has

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Speaker 2: always had a place in French society and in French Parliament.

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Speaker 2: You've then got the France Unvald, which has got the

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Speaker 2: very radical far left leader Jean mc MELINCHEANMP who goes

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Speaker 2: around calling him everyone comrades and says the first thing

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Speaker 2: he's going to do when he gets into power is

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Speaker 2: by decree and put the pension age down to sixty

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Speaker 2: and raise a minimum wage. You then got the more

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Speaker 2: sort of center left Socialist Party, which you are far

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Speaker 2: more steady hand on the tiller, and then you've got

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Speaker 2: even further, sort more towards the centery, you've got the Greens.

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Speaker 2: So sometimes it's a wonder they can even agree on

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Speaker 2: what the time of day is. They've been together all

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Speaker 2: day trying to figure out who's going to be their

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Speaker 2: leader for the negotiations, to be prime minister.

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Speaker 1: So oh, okay, okay, they don't have a leader for

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Speaker 1: the negotiations. They're going to come up with the prime ministers.

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Speaker 1: It's going to come from the NFP. So tell me

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Speaker 1: about the prime Minister of because this was the great question,

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Speaker 1: you say, the prime minister of France, where are we

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Speaker 1: at with all of that?

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, the old prime minister, Gabriella tal thirty five

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Speaker 2: years old, who's been prime minister since Genuary. He will

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Speaker 2: stay on as caretaker, and what President Macun is doing

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Speaker 2: is hoping that he will stay there. He will help

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Speaker 2: lead the country through the Olympic Games and get us

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Speaker 2: over to the other side of the big holidays that

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Speaker 2: France has, and then they'll start perhaps looking for who's

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Speaker 2: going to take over. I think the main thing to

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Speaker 2: look at there, Andrew, is that Emmanuel macaron is clearly

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Speaker 2: playing a much longer game. He's leaving it to the

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Speaker 2: other parties to sort of fight it out, put their

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Speaker 2: plans together and then come to him and open sort

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Speaker 2: of negotiations. He has said nothing. We did expect him

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Speaker 2: to say something, anything at all, really would have been

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Speaker 2: welcome for some parts of the electorate. And of course

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday he will put off to the NATO summuch

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Speaker 2: in Washington, So we're not really expecting him to sort

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Speaker 2: of upset the apple cart at the moment and just

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Speaker 2: leave everything in goodlock.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Meanwhile, on the right, Jordan Badilla, he was taking

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Speaker 1: the blame for a while and then he wasn't taking

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Speaker 1: the blame for the while, and that they didn't get

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Speaker 1: to where they wanted to be. But he's already got

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Speaker 1: a new job.

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Speaker 2: He has. This was a very interesting one. It was

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Speaker 2: just announced to day, but apparently it had been in

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Speaker 2: the works. He was actually last month elect to the

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Speaker 2: European Parliament and he was their poster boy for that campaign.

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Speaker 2: Now he has teamed up with the new far right

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Speaker 2: grouping the grouping that's known as Patriots for Europe with

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Speaker 2: some of the more far right parties in the European Parliament.

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Speaker 2: He's going to be their lead man. Now what this

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Speaker 2: means really is he will as the head of that

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Speaker 2: grouping that's the third largest grouping in the European Parliament.

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Speaker 2: He will get more time to speak in Parliament. Because

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Speaker 2: there's such a big group, he will be able to

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Speaker 2: every time he's a guest speaker, he will then be

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Speaker 2: able to get up and talk for however long he

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Speaker 2: wishes about a particular issue. And more importantly, because they

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Speaker 2: are such a big group twelve twelve different nations of

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Speaker 2: MP's MEPs in this group eighty four lawmakers, they will

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Speaker 2: get more money. And that is what's important when you're

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Speaker 2: in Europe, and when you're a political party that's really

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Speaker 2: on its uppers, is you need money. So they will

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Speaker 2: get that money. But what's more interesting, thanks to all

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Speaker 2: that Andrew, is they've spent the last couple of weeks

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Speaker 2: saying that they are their own masters. They are not

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Speaker 2: pro Russia. They are just looking at what's useful for Europe.

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Speaker 2: And now here we see them joining up with Patricks

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Speaker 2: for Europe, which is a very pro Russia party in

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Speaker 2: the European Parliament, and of course the leader overall leader

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Speaker 2: is the Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Auburn, who is the

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Speaker 2: most pro Russia pro China leader in Europe.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what a pleasure and thank you so much. Catherine

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