France begins snap election campaign
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Today marks the official start of campaigning for the snap general election in France. It was called by President Emmanuel Macron after his Renaissance party lost heavily to the anti-immigration National Rally in the recent EU parliamentary polls. Also in the programme: the BBC hears testimony that the Greek coastguard caused the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean; and the music stars with a difference -- K-pop's first hearing-impaired group. (Photo: People take part in a demonstration against the French far right party National Rally after the results of the European elections, in Paris, France, 15 June 2024. Credit: Mandatory Credit: Photo by Andre Pain/ EPA-EFE/REX Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour it's live from the BBC World Service studios in |
| 0:07.8 | London I'm Tim Franks and it is kick off today for France in two competitions. |
| 0:14.3 | This evening local time will be the national football team's |
| 0:17.3 | opening group game in the Euros, one of the great sports tournaments. |
| 0:22.1 | And that's been prefaced earlier today by the |
| 0:24.4 | start of the incredibly compressed campaign for parliamentary elections the |
| 0:28.6 | snap vote that the president Emmanuel Macron called after his governing |
| 0:32.2 | party was hammered in the elections to the European Parliament. |
| 0:36.0 | Me talking about both the euros and the elections is not entirely gratuitous, |
| 0:41.0 | because some of France's biggest football stars have used news |
| 0:44.0 | conferences at the tournament to warn that what's riding on this vote is |
| 0:47.9 | unprecedented as Killian Mbape put it we see the extremes are knocking on the door of power. |
| 0:56.6 | And the massive gamble for the centrist president is that leading the opinion polls is the |
| 1:00.8 | far-right national rally and its its allies and second in the opinion polls |
| 1:05.2 | is a coalition that includes some far left parties. |
| 1:08.3 | Nikola Conke is a first-time candidate for the national rally in Normandy in northwest France. |
| 1:15.2 | Nikola, very good to have you here on Newsour. |
| 1:20.3 | It's a bit embarrassing, isn't it, to have the French national football team saying that |
| 1:27.0 | they want people to turn out to vote in order to thwart the extremes. |
| 1:39.1 | Yeah, thanks for having me. Of course, it doesn't feel right for a sports from the national sports team |
| 1:44.8 | to be giving directions the rise or what people should vote or not vote for as they're wearing the national jersey they should be respecting everybody's voice and not |
| 1:49.5 | jumping in the political arena yeah but I mean I mean, I suppose the point is, is that they are very prominent |
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