All right, Alexander, let's talk about the first round of parliament elections in France.

Huge turnout.

Big riots as well.

And a big win for Le Pen and National Rally.

But not sure if that's going to be enough in the second round to guarantee

her a majority in the parliament. We might be heading towards some sort of an impasse, but how did

you see the results of the first round? Macron definitely got hit hard.

I think Macron is a discredited figure. I mean, his party came third. Let's just look at the results overall. So Le Pen's party, the Rassamplement National, got around, well, got 33% of the

vote, a third of the vote on a high turnout, large numbers

of young people now voting for her. She's clearly got momentum. Le Pen clearly has momentum now.

The United Left group, which is a Frankenstein's monster, if I could put it like that, of various left-wing

parties, some of which are deeply rivalrous and hostile with each other and who have different

opinions about all kinds of different things. Anyway, they came third with around 30%. Now, they

have come together basically in order to stop...

They came second.

They came second, sorry. They came second. Yeah, they came second around 30%. And they came together, essentially, with one objective, which is to stop Le Pen.

And Macron's party has collapsed to around 20% of the vote, 22% of the vote.

So, I mean, Macronism is discredited.

Whether he stays or goes, he is now a repudiated president in France.

Now, as you absolutely rightly say, every lever is now being pulled, every wire is being tugged, everything is being done in order to deny Le Pen and the Rassamblement

National a majority in the French Parliament as a result of the run-on votes that happen in the second

round.

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