1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: So the France election rumbles on. Not so good a 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: second round for the right. In these elections, the left 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: have tactically held them out. At the National Rally, the 4 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: former Front Nacinale projected to finish a distant third to 5 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: new Popular Front. They're very left and Macron's centrist coalition. 6 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: So here is Jean Lucamillichamp and he said he's ready 7 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: to be part of a new coalition the president. 8 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:29,159 Speaker 2: How the President has got the responsibility to call the 9 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 2: new ask for the new Popular Front to double and 10 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 2: we are ready to do so. 11 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: Okay, sow did that change anything? The first exit polls 12 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: are out and France correspondent Catherine Field has joined to 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: be now Hello Catherine, Hi, Good morning Andrew. What do 14 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: you make of it? 15 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 3: Well, it's a political earthquake for France. Everyone had been 16 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 3: believing the polls that Mahine La Penn and her National 17 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 3: Rally were going to be the largest block in parliament 18 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 3: after tonight, and it now seems that the country really 19 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 3: did stand up and decided that it didn't want to 20 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 3: be governed by the far right. It didn't give them 21 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 3: the big mandate which they were hoping for, but it's 22 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 3: put the whole parliamentary system into a bit of a question, 23 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 3: mark Andrew, Because we now have a parliament that's dominated 24 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 3: by three blocks, each of the blocks well short of 25 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 3: an absolute majority for getting any sort of legislation. 26 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: Through Macronz there for another three years. What are they 27 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: going to do about the prime minister? 28 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 3: Good question, and it really does depend who you ask 29 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 3: at the moment. I certainly the Left Alliance which has 30 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 3: got the largest share of the votes and the largest 31 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 3: number of seats that does they are saying, you've got 32 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 3: to come to us and ask for us to provide 33 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 3: a prime minister. Well, you know that alliance has got 34 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 3: four and a bit parties. Two of them are the 35 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 3: far left and two of them are more in the 36 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 3: sort of center left, the Socialists and the Greens. So 37 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 3: they're going to have to decide among them who is 38 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 3: going to go forward as the prime minister. And in 39 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 3: that we're really going to start seeing a lot of 40 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 3: hor Australian Andrew. That's where we're really going to see 41 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 3: if the Socialists, who used to be such a big 42 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 3: force in French politics for almost a century, whether they 43 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 3: are going to desert that alliance which got them seventy 44 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 3: seats in Parliament and go running to President Manuel Macron 45 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 3: because they think maybe they'll get to be Prime minister, 46 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,239 Speaker 3: maybe they'll have the power back that they saw whittle 47 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 3: away from their grasp over the last couple of decades. 48 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: There was a lot of tension in this election. There 49 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: was a lot of security forces on the street, there 50 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: was a lot of threat of violence. And now we've 51 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: got a situation where everyone's a little bit hung and 52 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: we're not sure what's happening next. So what effect will 53 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: this have going forward? Particularly are the mood around the Olympics. 54 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 3: Well, I think if it was just for the time being, 55 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 3: to be honest with you, Andrews breathing a sigh of relief, 56 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 3: because all of the policies that Marine La Penna and 57 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 3: the National Rally came up with were all ones that 58 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 3: were absolutely aimed at dividing the country. There's two tiers 59 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,799 Speaker 3: of citizenship, Bob really putting more police on it. It 60 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 3: was really a tone that people were worried about that 61 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 3: was going to change. So what's going to happen is 62 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 3: I think we're going to see a little bit of 63 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 3: a horse trading going on. So happened, but we're not 64 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 3: going to see that huge shift that people feared if 65 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 3: the national rally came to power for the Olympics. Well, 66 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 3: it's all sort of in the bag. Whose Prime minister 67 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 3: doesn't really matter that much because that's going to be 68 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 3: the president's show. He will be there as well the 69 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 3: Mayor of Paris, and of course her job wasn't up 70 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 3: for grabs in these elections, so she'll be doing what 71 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 3: she can to steal the limelight there, as will President Emmanuel. 72 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: Macrawl kas Field. I thank you for your term seven 73 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: twenty one. Meanwhile, what does the current Prime minister think. 74 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 2: The political position that I represented in this In this campaign, 75 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:05,119 Speaker 2: though we had three times better results than had been envisaged, 76 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 2: doesn't mean that it's a majority. So faithful to the 77 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 2: Republican tradition. I will actually Withsdore tomorrow morning. 78 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 1: Good stuff and I thank you for more from the 79 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 1: Mic Asking Breakfast. 80 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 3: Listen live to news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, 81 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 3: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.