A French presidential election rematch
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Incumbent Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen will advance to the final round of voting after yesterday’s first round of the French presidential election, and Stefania Palma explains the big themes that have emerged from the 1MDB scandal. Plus, the FT’s Asia financial correspondent, Tabby Kinder, explains why China is changing its audit secrecy rules.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Emmanuel Macron to face Marine Le Pen in French election run-off
Ex-Goldman banker Roger Ng found guilty in 1MDB fraud trial
China changes audit secrecy rules in bid to stop US delistings
Imran Khan ousted as Pakistan’s leader in vote of no confidence
The French election webinar: Race to the Finish
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk |
| 0:09.8 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:11.4 | Today is Monday, April 11th. |
| 0:13.3 | And this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:18.8 | It's official. We're going to see a rematch of the 2017 French presidential |
| 0:23.3 | election in just a few weeks. |
| 0:25.5 | Had a former banker in the 1MDB trial has been found guilty. |
| 0:29.7 | Plus, China has made a major concession to U.S. regulators in order to keep its companies |
| 0:34.8 | on U.S. exchanges. |
| 0:36.1 | But will it actually smooth things over? |
| 0:38.4 | If he's tabby, Kinder explains. |
| 0:40.8 | A Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:50.4 | The people of France came out to the polls yesterday to vote in the first round |
| 0:54.4 | of the country's presidential election. |
| 0:56.6 | And they advanced two candidates and come at Emanuel Macron. |
| 0:59.9 | And the far right candidate, Marie Le Pen. |
| 1:02.2 | It'll be a rematch of the 2017 election. |
| 1:04.8 | That's when Macron beat Le Pen by a pretty wide margin. |
| 1:08.0 | This time though, things were much closer. |
| 1:10.6 | Here's the FT's Paris correspondent, Leyla Aboude. |
| 1:13.7 | My curls bet to kind of wait quite late to come into the campaign. |
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