French Voters Unite to Stop the Far Right

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

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A.M. Edition for July 8th. A coalition of leftist parties in France have won the most seats in parliament in a shock result that will likely block Marine Le Pen’s National Rally from power. The Journal’s Noemie Bisserbe explains how the stunning result came about and the challenges facing a new coalition government. Plus, Boeing agrees to plead guilty to misleading air-safety regulators. And, Texas braces as Hurricane Beryl makes landfall. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free Whats News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.7	Voters in France turn out to reject the country's far right.
0:26.0	Plus, Boeing agrees to plead guilty to misleading federal regulators after two fatal crashes,
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0:48.4	It's Monday, July 8th.
0:50.0	I'm Luke Fargis for the Wall Street Journal and here is the AM edition of
0:53.8	What's News? The top headlines and business stories moving your world today. We begin in France where a coalition of leftist parties won the most seats in
1:10.7	parliamentary elections yesterday a surprise outcome that denied a victory
1:15.1	to the far-right national rally and its allies who had come out on top in an earlier
1:19.8	first round of voting. Journal reporter Noemie Bisserb covers French politics out of Paris for us.
1:26.9	No, when you spoke to us just a week ago you told us there was no question that the far
1:31.2	right would end up with the most seats in these elections and the question really was whether they'd be able to achieve a majority.
1:36.7	Obviously the results yesterday seemed to have caught a lot of people off guard turning that prediction properly on its head. What happened here?
1:44.7	Yeah, so the results were clearly a very big surprise. Every polling firm in the
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