French PM warns of 'climate of fear' ahead of Sunday's election
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🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
France's centrist Prime Minister Gabriel Attal warns of a "climate of fear" ahead of parliamentary elections on Sunday - while national football star Kylian Mbappe urges people to vote against the far right National Rally.
Also in the programme: negotiations resume between Israel and Hamas on a Gaza ceasefire deal; and as pressure mounts on 81-year old US President Joe Biden to stand aside as Democratic Party candidate, we hear some sobering thoughts from Malaysia's former prime minister, who was 94 when he resigned.
(IMAGE: French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is seen after Ensemble Pour La Republique candidate and French Government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot and her team were targeted by an unidentified group of youth while they were out putting up campaign posters prior to the second round of the early French parliamentary elections, in Meudon-la-Foret, near Paris, France, July 4, 2024 / CREDIT: Reuters/Benoit Tessier)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service |
| 0:07.0 | coming to live from our studios in Central London I'm Julian Marshall. |
| 0:13.0 | Tensions are clearly rising in France ahead of the second round of parliamentary elections |
| 0:16.9 | on Sunday with violent attacks on candidates and the Prime Minister warning of a climate of fear. |
| 0:23.8 | The far-right National Rally made a strong showing in the first round last month and parties |
| 0:28.1 | opposed to them have been maneuvering to give a single candidate the best chance of beating the national rally in the second round |
| 0:36.1 | and amid fears that the results of the elections could lead to violence, 30,000 police |
| 0:41.5 | are to be deployed on the streets on Sunday evening. |
| 0:46.0 | Meanwhile French football captain, Kiliyam Bape, whose team will be facing Portugal tomorrow |
| 0:51.6 | in the Euro's quarterfinals has urged people to vote describing the country's |
| 0:56.6 | political situation as urgent. |
| 0:59.0 | I think more than ever we must go and vote. There's a real urgency here. We cannot leave our |
| 1:07.9 | country in the hands of these people. It's really urgent. I think we've seen the |
| 1:12.0 | results catastrophic and we really hope that really |
| 1:13.3 | I think we've seen the results catastrophic and we really hope that everything's going to change and everyone will mobilize to vote and vote for the good side |
| 1:20.7 | So are there concerns that people won't turn out to vote on Sunday. |
| 1:25.0 | Our chorus is in Paris, is Hugh Schofield. |
| 1:28.0 | There's a very high turnout in the first round. |
| 1:30.0 | I think there's a likely there will be a very high turnout this time around. |
| 1:33.0 | People do listen to him. |
| 1:35.0 | He's got 2 million Twitter or ex-f followers |
| 1:39.0 | and obviously the message is quite clear that he's putting out, you know, vote against the |
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