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Speaker 1: Already and this is the daily This is the daily.

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Speaker 2: Ohs oh, now it makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: the ninth of July. I'm zara, i'm emma, France's far

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Speaker 1: right party was expected to dominate in France's election over

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Speaker 1: the weekend, but a surprise swing to the left has

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Speaker 1: resulted in a hung parliament. The results are nothing less

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Speaker 1: than shocking. This was the biggest surprise in French politics

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Speaker 2: A left wing coalition that didn't exist a few weeks

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Speaker 2: voting for the French election, but a divided result means

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Speaker 2: there's no clear majority winner. We'll take you through the

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Speaker 2: results and what they mean for the future of France's

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Speaker 2: government in today's deep dive.

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Speaker 1: But first, Zara.

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Speaker 2: What's making headlines.

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory police have announced curfew in Alice Springs. It's

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Speaker 1: the second in three months. Territory police say the decision

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Speaker 1: comes after a recent spike in crime, including assaults against

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Speaker 1: local police. The three day curfew prohibits anyone from entering

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Speaker 1: the Alice Springs CBD from ten pm to six a m.

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Speaker 1: The Anti Police Commissioner can extend the length of the

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Speaker 1: curfew with approval from the Police Minister.

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Speaker 2: Global plane manufacturer Boeing will plete guilty to fraud charges

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Speaker 2: after the U S Government launched legal action over two

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Speaker 2: separate Boeing seven three seven Max crashes. Two Boeing planes

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Speaker 2: crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen, respectively,

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Speaker 2: killing nearly three hundred fifty people in total. Boeing will

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Speaker 2: now have to pay a penalty of US two hundred

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Speaker 2: forty three point six million dollars that's over three hundred

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Speaker 2: sixty one million Australian dollars for failing to address safety concerns.

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Speaker 2: The company will also need to invest a further four

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Speaker 1: Last month was the hottest June on record. That's according

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Speaker 1: to the European Union's Climate change service Copernicus. New figure

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Speaker 1: seven degrees celsius. That's nearly zero point seven degrees higher

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Speaker 1: while below average temperatures were recorded in the northern and

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Speaker 1: eastern areas of Australia. Countries like the US, Greece and

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Speaker 1: India are facing some of their hottest summers on record.

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Speaker 2: And today's good news the UK has elected its highest

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Speaker 2: ever number of women to Parliament. Two hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: three women won seats in the general election on the

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Speaker 2: fourth of July, according to interim summary results. That's up

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Speaker 2: from the previous record of two hundred and twenty women

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Speaker 2: women now make up around forty percent of the UK Parliament.

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Speaker 1: M another day, another global election. Yesterday we were of

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Speaker 1: kir Starmer. Last week we were talking about the US

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Speaker 1: election and Joe Biden and Donald Trump. But today we

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Speaker 1: have a new entrant into the global election scene, and

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Speaker 1: that is France. It was a bit of an unexpected

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Speaker 2: It's a good question.

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Speaker 1: On the starting point.

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Speaker 2: Over the past few weeks, as you've mentioned, we've basically

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Speaker 2: the recent European elections.

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Speaker 1: I do want to pick up on those European elections

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Speaker 1: the whole election process in France. Talk me through those.

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Speaker 2: Yep, you're exactly right. So President Emmanuel Macron called a

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Speaker 2: Marine Lapenn led the far right National Rally Party to

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Speaker 1: It was almost this way for Macron to test the temperature,

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Speaker 2: So something pretty remarkable ended up happening within French politics

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Speaker 1: So we saw the emergence of.

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Speaker 2: Now that's a party scene as kind of the most

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Speaker 2: Semitism over recent campaigns. So quite an extreme figure in

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Speaker 1: So this left wing alliance has emerged in response to

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Speaker 1: How does that impact what's actually happening in France.

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Speaker 2: Yep, So it's complicated, but stay with me. The timeline

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Speaker 1: Only because you are so niceute.

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Speaker 2: European Union has elections. That's about the decision makers in

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Speaker 2: that's seen as a temperature test of French sentiment and

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Speaker 2: So the president says to the country, you seem to

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Speaker 1: On this far right party of which Macron is not

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Speaker 2: Of, not a member. No, so Macron is a centrist leader.

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Speaker 2: He is part of the Ensemble party. So Macron says

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Speaker 2: to the French people, it seems like France is skewing

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Speaker 2: to the far right. Let's go to an election and

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Speaker 2: that gives us the French elections.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And those elections work differently to how they do here.

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Speaker 1: They've split up into two different rounds, right.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So the first thing to say here is that

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Speaker 2: we're talking about elections of France's National Assembly, it's lower House.

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Speaker 2: These elections, as you say, are held over two rounds

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Speaker 2: to elect five hundred and seventy seven members that make

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Round one essentially narrows down the field, and round two

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Speaker 1: I think this is the first and last time I'm

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Speaker 1: ever going to use a sporting analogy, but it's almost

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Speaker 1: like the heat and then the finals. Yes, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I was really proud of that I've.

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Speaker 2: Got like a knockout round and then a final okay.

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Speaker 1: And thank you so much, and just before we go

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Speaker 1: on any further. This election doesn't impact Emmanuel Macron's job

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Speaker 2: So Mcron will be the president of France until twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty seven. His job might change in terms of how

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Speaker 2: to that. But unlike in Australia, as you mentioned earlierz Aara,

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Speaker 2: the parliamentary system of France, it functions differently. We've got

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Speaker 2: But this election did mean something for the Prime minister

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I think I understand a bit of the

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Speaker 2: that's the new left wing alliance. They were formed recently

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Speaker 2: put their popularity to the test, and NFP beat mccron's party,

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Speaker 2: the Centrist Ensemble Party. So NFP won about twenty eight

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Speaker 2: So despite the fact that National Rally won the most

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Speaker 1: This second right party YEP.

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Speaker 2: Sunday's vote actually saw the left wing Alliance NFP take

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Speaker 2: the highest number of seats, around one hundred and eighty.

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Speaker 2: So remember there are five hundred and seventy seven up

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Speaker 2: hundred and eighty. Mccron's party picked up about one hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty. That's down from two hundred and forty five

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Speaker 2: at the last election, So nearly one hundred seats lost

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Speaker 2: and the far right won about one hundred and forty seats.

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Speaker 2: short answer is no. Two hundred and eighty nine seats

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Speaker 1: So many numbers, Okay, so they're far away from where

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Speaker 2: So a bit of a hung parliament exactly, we've got

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Speaker 1: We're talking about a bunch of different groups all coming

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Speaker 2: And that's a strategic decision that these parties have made

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Speaker 1: Can they do deals with each other? Though, So if

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Speaker 2: That definitely makes more political sense than if that left

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Speaker 2: And I think that really speaks to the division in

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Speaker 1: I don't envy Emmanuel Macron, who among this kind of

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Speaker 2: Gabrielle Atal is a casualty of this snap election. He's resigned.

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Speaker 1: And just to clarify, if that were to happen, it

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Speaker 2: Could be incredibly difficult, and I think when you look

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Speaker 1: And what's the reaction been like among voters after this

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Speaker 2: So if the lead up to the election was any

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Speaker 2: Government officials said that there were at least fifty candidates

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Speaker 1: Obviously, the far right has not ended up on top

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Speaker 2: So Lea Penn posted on x saying the tide continues

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Speaker 2: So we'll have to wait and see how this future government,

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Speaker 2: We've got a really divided country, a really divided government,

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Speaker 1: And if that could be the theme of every general

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